Even with the right tools it can be a pain to crack, stripping the password is easier but if you want to recover the password you usually have to resort to brute force attacks. With my P4 2.4GHz, to crack a password of 6 characters long would take about 12 days.
(Average passwords a second = 125,000)
Possible characters 72 (including capitals, spaces and symbols)
72^6= 139314069504
139314069504/(125000x60x60x24)=12.89945088 days
Over a week without any spare CPU time, that's quite a pain if you ask me.