Introduction to Password Recovery Tool - Cain & Abel

Introduction to Password Recovery Tool

Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems. It allows easy recovery of several kinds 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. 

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The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. It covers some security aspects/weakness intrinsic of 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 testers 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 this manual before using the program.

 

Requirements

The actual version requires the following items:

- 10Mb Hard-Disk space

- Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista

- Winpcap Packet Driver (v2.3 or above; AirPcap adapter is supported from Winpcap version 4.0). Please check the documentation on their site.

- Airpcap Packet Driver (for passive wireless sniffer / WEP cracker).

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