The cracking tool John The Ripper is highly configurable. I don't know about Cain and Abel. You can avoid running a full brute force attack by identifying the m

The cracking tool John The Ripper is highly configurable. I don't know about Cain and Abel. You can avoid running a full brute force attack by identifying the most common password patterns and generate passwords based on them. Eg: any word from a dictionary plus the current year. I blogged about this here: http://codebazaar.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-we-need-strong-p4ssw0rds.html http://codebazaar.blogspot.com/2011/05/why-we-need-strong-p4...