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 Snapcraft 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 Ettercap.

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  1. Trinity Rescue Kit or TRK is a free live Linux distribution that aims specifically at recovery and repair operations on Windows machines, but is equally usable for Linux recovery issues. Since version 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

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    • Linux
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  2. Worlds fastest NTLM, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, descrypt and SL3 cracker.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. A CUDA & OpenCL accelerated rainbow table implementation from the ground up, and a CUDA hash brute forcing tool with support for many hash types including MD5, SHA1, LM, NTLM, and lots more!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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    Reaver implements a brute force attack against Wifi Protected Setup (WPS) registrar PINs in order to recover WPA/WPA2 passphrases. Reaver has been designed to be a robust and practical attack against WPS, and has been tested against a wide variety of access points and WPS...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    MDCrack is a free featureful password cracker designed to bruteforce several commonly used hash algorithms at a very aggressive speed rate.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  6. GoCrack icon
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    GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    World Fastest MD5 cracker BarsWF with AMD and NVIDIA support.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    A powerful password dumping utility for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Windows
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