Well thanks for the compliment. But note that thermodynamics is a delicate subject, that was too simple an argument to be exact. I'm still planning to figure ou

Well thanks for the compliment. But note that thermodynamics is a delicate subject, that was too simple an argument to be exact. I'm still planning to figure out the details of this kind of problem myself. From my light reading it seems the theories for this subject were fully developed only recently actually, namely non-equilibrium thermodynamics and information-theoretic thermodynamics. What I mentioned is a natural extension of information-theoretic arguments to computational hardness assumptions; they're the same assumptions that allow safe encryption methods in spite of them being 'broken' in an information-theoretic sense (which doesn't consider computer limitations). Without those limitations only variants of the one-time pad are secure and public key crypto (which relies on integer factorization hardness) is impossible. Some basic readings if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon#Recent_progress https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon#Recent_progr... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_hardness_assumption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_hardness_assumpt...