The same things happening to me . You know what I started doing ? Stop giving a fuck . Feelsgoodman . jpg <| sep |> Regarding hardware Honestly , apart from a few weirdly specific things that you ' d want your wifi card to be able to do and have a reasonable amount of RAM , the hardware matters much less than having Linux and the appropriate tools . There ' s also a big difference between cryptography and modern penetration testing most cryptosystems today are provably unbreakable within the lifetime of the universe , so security vulnerabilities come from bugs in the implementation of various software , or from sidechannel attacks people have been able to reconstruct entire AES 256 keys by listening to the sounds a CPU makes . Unless quantum computation specifically , Shor ' s Algorithm becomes magically affordable overnight , you have no chance at decrypting an isolated message , no matter who you are . If I wasn ' t posting on my phone , I ' d be perfectly comfortable including my public key and RSAencrypted social security number in this post . aside , AES is a symmetric encryption scheme you use the same key to encrypt and decrypt , and RSA is an asymmetric one , meaning you use a widelydistributed public key to encrypt , and a secret private key to decryptThe biggest issue will be having network drivers and hardware that can connect to the internet of the time .