NAME
wpa_passphrase – utility for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase
SYNOPSIS
wpa_passphrase ⟨ssid⟩ [passphrase]
DESCRIPTION
The wpa_passphrase utility is a small program for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase and a given SSID. The output is formatted for inclusion in wpa_supplicant.conf(5).
If wpa_passphrase is called with only an SSID as argument it will prompt for a passphrase on standard input.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The wpa_passphrase utility first appeared in FreeBSD 6.3.
AUTHORS
The wpa_passphrase utility was written by Jouni Malinen ⟨[email protected]⟩.
This manual page was written by Henrik Brix Andersen ⟨[email protected]⟩.