Well, probably not - because in order to apply this energy to your brute-force calculation process you presumably have some way of capturing it, thereby making it unavailable for use in the destruction of the cosmos. :-)
Nope! That thermodynamic analysis is how much heat you have to dump in the universe. (Well, entropy, actually, but to a first approximation that's the same thing.) For more details, check Wikipedia's writeup on the Landauer bound:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle So, yeah, it really is as catastrophic as I make it out to be. :) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
