Cain & Abel Alternatives for Linux

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   Wireshark

    949 likes

   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

   • Network Analyzer
   • Network Monitor

   Origin

   • United States

   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

    71 likes

   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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Penetration Testing Tool

   Origin

   • France
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Fern Wifi Cracker

   

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   Comments about Aircrack-ng as an Alternative to Cain & Abel

    

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   Negative comment•Oct 4, 2017

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   Cain and Abel can do more things

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • 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

    39 likes

   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

   Origin

   • Russia

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Haiku

   

   

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   12users say it's a good alternative
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   hashcat

    20 likes

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

   11 hashcat alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   6users say it's a good alternative
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   Intercepter-NG

    15 likes

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

   12 Intercepter-NG alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Proprietary

   Application types

   • Network Analyzer
   • Network Monitor

   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

    19 likes

   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

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

   Application type

   • Network Analyzer

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   9users say it's a good alternative
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   ophcrack

    28 likes

   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.

   9 ophcrack alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • Switzerland

   Platforms

   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD

   

   

   

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   oclHashcat-plus

    6 likes

   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

     5 likes

    Hashcat GUI overlay for Windows and Linux.

    10 hashcat-gui alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Offline NT Password & Registry Editor

     21 likes

    Windows stores its user information, including crypted versions of the passwords, in a file called 'sam', usually found in \windows\system32\config. This file is a part of the registry, in a binary format previously undocumented, and not easily accessible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Origin

    • Norway

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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    Trinity Rescue Kit

     8 likes

    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.

    26 Trinity Rescue Kit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • Belgium
    • EU

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux

    

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    oclHashcat-lite

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux

    

    Is oclHashcat-lite a good alternative to Cain & Abel?