Comment Re:Laws of Physics make it Impossible (Score 1) 170
Worse, if you want to maintain any schedule, you must make sure that the maximum effort is being carried out the whole time.
Basically, a secret that needs 10 years of cracking, has the issue that you need to motivate somebody to invest the energy (real and figuratively) into decrypting it.
Now you've got the issue, if there is enough motivation, your key might be cracked faster (because the adversary decided to throw a billion bucks into the game, or the hardware got much better in an unplanned way), or it might be cracked never (the stocks your foundation "Crack The Secret" was invested in to finance the ongoing cracking, went bust).