NAME
cowpatty - Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK
DESCRIPTION
Implementation of an offline dictionary attack against WPA/WPA2 networks using PSK-based authentication (e.g. WPA-Personal)
SYNOPSIS
cowpatty < -d | -r > < HASH-FILE | CAPTURE-FILE > -f WORDLIST -s SSID
OPTIONS
- -f
-
Dictionary file
- -d
-
Hash file (genpmk)
- -r
-
Packet capture file
- -s
-
Network SSID (enclose in quotes if SSID includes spaces)
- -c
-
Check for valid 4-way frames, does not crack
- -h
-
Print this help information and exit
- -v
-
Print verbose information (more -v for more verbosity)
- -V
-
Print program version and exit
AUTHOR
cowpatty was developed Joshua Wright <[email protected]>.
This manual page was written by Samuel Henrique <[email protected]> for the Debian project, it was based on cowpatty -h output and can be used by other projects as well.
SEE ALSO
genpmk(1)
aircrack-ng(1)
airodump-ng(1)
airmon-ng(1)
wifite(1)