‫Cain and Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft operating systems.
‫It allows easy recovery of various kinds of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords,
‫using dictionary brute force and cryptanalysis attacks, recording VIP 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 and weaknesses present in protocol standards.
‫Authentication methods and caching mechanisms But its main purpose is this simplified recovery of passwords
‫and credentials from various sources.
‫However, it also ships some nonstandard utilities from Microsoft Windows users.