| Description: |
"Description: "Cain &
Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It
allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the
network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force
and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding
scrambled passwords, recovering wireless network keys, revealing
password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing
protocols. The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities
or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some
security aspects/weakness present in protocol's standards,
authentication methods and caching mechanisms; its main purpose is
the simplified recovery of passwords and credentials from various
sources, however it also ships some "non standard" utilities for
Microsoft Windows users.
Cain & Abel has been developed in the hope that it will be useful
for network administrators, teachers, security
consultants/professionals, forensic staff, security software
vendors, professional penetration tester and everyone else that
plans to use it for ethical reasons. The author will not help or
support any illegal activity done with this program. Be warned that
there is the possibility that you will cause damages and/or loss of
data using this software and that in no events shall the author be
liable for such damages or loss of data. Please carefully read the
License Agreement included in the program before using it.
The latest version is faster and contains a lot of new features like
APR (Arp Poison Routing) which enables sniffing on switched LANs and
Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The sniffer in this version can also
analyze encrypted protocols such as SSH-1 and HTTPS, and contains
filters to capture credentials from a wide range of authentication
mechanisms. The new version also ships routing protocols
authentication monitors and routes extractors, dictionary and
brute-force crackers for all common hashing algorithms and for
several specific authentications, password/hash calculators,
cryptanalysis attacks, password decoders and some not so common
utilities related to network and system security." |
