Cain & Abel Alternatives

Cain & Abel is described as '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' and is an app in the security & privacy category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Cain & Abel for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD and iPad apps. The best Cain & Abel alternative is Wireshark, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Cain & Abel are Aircrack-ng, John the Ripper, hashcat and Intercepter-NG.

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    Wireshark

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    Wireshark is a premier network protocol analyzer used globally in industries and education, offering multi-platform support, deep protocol inspection, powerful display filters, and VoIP analysis. It allows both live capture and offline analysis, supporting various networks and protocols.

    58 Wireshark alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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    • Most users think Wireshark is a great Cain & Abel alternative.

    • Wireshark is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Cain & Abel.

    • Wireshark is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Cain & Abel.

    • Wireshark is Free and Open SourceCain & Abel is Free and Proprietary
    • Wireshark is Privacy focusedCain & Abel is not according to our users
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    Aircrack-ng

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    Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured. It implements the standard FMS attack along with some optimizations like KoreK attacks, as well as the all-new PTW attack, thus making the attack...

    4 Aircrack-ng alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Fern Wifi Cracker
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    Comments about Aircrack-ng as an Alternative to Cain & Abel
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    Cain and Abel can do more things

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    • Most users think Aircrack-ng is a great Cain & Abel alternative.

    • Aircrack-ng is Free and Open SourceCain & Abel is Free and Proprietary
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    John the Ripper

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    John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix systems, supported...

    15 John the Ripper alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Haiku
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    hashcat

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    The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker.

    11 hashcat alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Intercepter-NG

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    Intercepter-NG is a multifunctional network toolkit for various types of IT specialists.

    12 Intercepter-NG alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued
    • Warning

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • BSD
    • iPad
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    • Almost everyone thinks Intercepter-NG is a great Cain & Abel alternative.

    • Intercepter-NG is the most popular Android, iPhone, iPad & Android Tablet alternative to Cain & Abel.

    • Intercepter-NG is Free and ProprietaryCain & Abel is also Free and Proprietary
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    Ettercap

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    Ettercap is a suite for man in the middle attacks on LAN. It features sniffing of live connections, content filtering on the fly and many other interesting tricks.

    20 Ettercap alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    ophcrack

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    Ophcrack is a Windows Password cracker based on Rainbow Tables.

    Features

    Cracks LM and NTLM Windows hashes Free tables available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 Brute-force module for simple passwords Audit mode and CSV export Real-time graphs to analyze the pas.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    Kon-Boot

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    Kon-Boot is an application which will silently bypass the authentication process of Windows based operating systems. Without overwriting your old password! In other words you can login to your Windows profile without knowing your password.

    13 Kon-Boot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    • Some users think Kon-Boot is a great Cain & Abel alternative, some don't.

    • Kon-Boot is the most popular commercial alternative to Cain & Abel.

    • Kon-Boot is Paid and ProprietaryCain & Abel is Free and Proprietary
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    oclHashcat-plus

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    Worlds fastest md5crypt, phpass, mscash2 and WPA / WPA2 cracker & Worlds first and only GPGPU based rule engine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    hashcat-gui

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    Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.

    10 hashcat-gui alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    L0phtCrack

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    L0phtCrack is a password auditing and recovery application (now called L0phtCrack 7) originally produced by Mudge from L0pht Heavy Industries. It is used to test password strength and sometimes to recover lost Microsoft Windows passwords, by using dictionary, brute-force, hybrid...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    recALL

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    recALL is free and portable multifunctional password recovery and auditing solution for Windows - instantly finds and recovers passwords from more than 200 popular applications (FTP, E-mail clients, Instant Messengers, Browsers) and recovering licenses from over 2800 programs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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