Overview
What is Cain & Abel?
A password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems
In depth
A closer look at Cain & Abel
Cain & Abel is a 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 scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
Verdict
Should you download Cain & Abel?
Cain & Abel runs on
Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Freeware
license
— the installer is 5.97 MB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Encryption Decryption.
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At a glance
Cain & Abel specifications
- Last updated
- Apr 30, 2026
- License
- Freeware
- Operating system
- Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
- File size
- 5.97 MB
- Price
- Free
- Page views
- 818
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