Top 5 Open-Source Alternatives to Cain and Abel

Product categories

CD Image Creator Log Management Monitoring Tools Password Recovery Password Unlocker Performance Monitoring Personal Finance Productivity Security Security & Privacy

Summary

The top open-source alternatives to Cain and Abel are hashcat, GoCrack, and Wireshark. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

hashcat Landing Page
1

hashcat

The World's Fastest CPU/GPU powered password cracker.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #CD Image Creator #Personal Finance 44 social mentions
GoCrack Landing Page
2

GoCrack

GoCrack provides APIs to manage password cracking tasks across supported cracking engines.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Security & Privacy #CD Image Creator #Personal Finance
Wireshark Landing Page
3

Wireshark

Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer for Unix and Windows. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Performance Monitoring 11 social mentions
tcpdump Landing Page
4

tcpdump

tcpdump is a common packet analyzer that runs under the command line.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Monitoring Tools #Log Management #Security
John the Ripper Landing Page
5

John the Ripper

A fast password cracker for Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS
Pricing:
- Open Source
#CD Image Creator #Security & Privacy #Password Unlocker