1.\" Copyright (c) 2006 Henrik Brix Andersen <henrik@brixandersen.dk> 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.Dd July 17, 2007 26.Dt WPA_PASSPHRASE 8 27.Os 28.Sh NAME 29.Nm wpa_passphrase 30.Nd "utility for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase" 31.Sh SYNOPSIS 32.Nm 33.Aq Ar ssid 34.Op Ar passphrase 35.Sh DESCRIPTION 36The 37.Nm 38utility is a small program for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key 39from an ASCII passphrase and a given SSID. The output is formatted for 40inclusion in 41.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 . 42.Pp 43If 44.Nm 45is called with only an SSID as argument it will prompt for a 46passphrase on standard input. 47.Sh SEE ALSO 48.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 , 49.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 50.Sh HISTORY 51The 52.Nm 53utility first appeared in 54.Fx 6.3 . 55.Sh AUTHORS 56.An -nosplit 57The 58.Nm 59utility was written by 60.An Jouni Malinen Aq Mt j@w1.fi . 61.Pp 62This manual page was written by 63.An Henrik Brix Andersen Aq Mt henrik@brixandersen.dk . 64