Please carefully read the License Agreement included in the program before using it.

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. The author will not help or support any illegal activity done with this program. 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.Ĭain & 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 program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. 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. Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.

Cain and abel hacking tool