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6 .TH "WPA_PASSPHRASE" "8" "10 August 2008" "" ""
9 wpa_passphrase \- Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID
12 \fBwpa_passphrase\fR [ \fB\fIssid\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIpassphrase\fB\fR ]
16 \fBwpa_passphrase\fR pre-computes PSK entries for
17 network configuration blocks of a
18 \fIwpa_supplicant.conf\fR file. An ASCII passphrase
19 and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK.
23 The SSID whose passphrase should be derived.
26 The passphrase to use. If not included on the command line,
27 passphrase will be read from standard input.
30 \fBwpa_supplicant.conf\fR(5)
31 \fBwpa_supplicant\fR(8)
34 wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2007,
35 Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and
39 This program is dual-licensed under both the GPL version 2
40 and BSD license. Either license may be used at your option.