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It is well known that you can compute any combinatoric function (and hence, any encryption method) with a sufficient number of NAND gates, and so the answer to your question would appear to be "yes, any algorithm is able to run on a "physical level", without a fancy GUI, multitheaded operating system, memory, processor or even a motherboard".
However, I do ...
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