1) Using course resources and the Internet, please explain the following Password-Cracking Tools:

a. Cain & Abel
b. ophcrack
c. John the Ripper

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Password cracking is a common term in the area of computer security. This involves the process in which forgotten passwords are recovered, or crackers use unauthorized measures to access computer or network resources (Marechal, 2008). Some of the password cracking tools used includes Cain and Abel, ophcrack and John the Ripper. Password crackers may use the tools to hack encrypted passwords since the devices use algorithms for decrypting thus allowing the cracker to access the restricted files in a computer.

The first tool, Cain and Abel, it is recognized as a Microsoft Windows password cracking tool which uses cryptanalysis attacks, dictionary searches and brute-force attacks to decode several passwords (De Carnavalet, & Mannan, 2014). The cracking…

 

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