The program does not exploit any software vulnerabilities or bugs that could not be fixed with little effort. 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, recovering wireless network keys, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols. 'Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for Microsoft Operating Systems.