This too with a curious name may retrieve different passwords in Windows using the technique “brute force” and “dictionary attack” among others. Cain and Abel also process the kind of encrypted passwords so as to know how to attack them.

At fist sight, we are in front of a hacking instrument, even the antivirus system Avast identifies it as a password identifier, and however, the author tries to offer a tool to help retrieve passwords from the poor model methods used in authentication protocols.

As secondary tasks, Cain and Abel may capture chats from VoIP and watch routing passwords.