wpa_passphrase

Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID

Synopsis

wpa_passphrase [ ssid ] [ passphrase ]

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options

ssid

The SSID whose passphrase should be derived.

passphrase

The passphrase to use. If not included on the command line, passphrase will be read from standard input.

legal

This program is dual-licensed under both the GPL version 2 and BSD license. Either license may be used at your option.

overview

wpa_passphrase pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a wpa_supplicant.conf file. An ASCII passphrase and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK.

see also

wpa_supplicant .conf wpa_supplicant