Absolutely. Breaking a physical safe and breaking encryption don't differ in the _kind_ of hoop you're jumping, just the height you have to clear. But the encry

Absolutely. Breaking a physical safe and breaking encryption don't differ in the _kind_ of hoop you're jumping, just the height you have to clear. But the encryption hoop is (almost) infinitely high, and that leads people to think about it as if it were another sort of thing entirely.