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.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd July 17, 2007 28.Dt WPA_PASSPHRASE 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm wpa_passphrase 32.Nd "utility for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase" 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Aq Ar ssid 36.Op Ar passphrase 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility is a small program for generating a 256-bit pre-shared WPA key 41from an ASCII passphrase and a given SSID. The output is formatted for 42inclusion in 43.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 . 44.Pp 45If 46.Nm 47is called with only an SSID as argument it will prompt for a 48passphrase on standard input. 49.Sh SEE ALSO 50.Xr wpa_supplicant.conf 5 , 51.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 52.Sh HISTORY 53The 54.Nm 55utility first appeared in 56.Fx 6.3 . 57.Sh AUTHORS 58The 59.Nm 60utility was written by 61.An Jouni Malinen 62.Aq j@w1.fi . 63.Pp 64This manual page was written by 65.An Henrik Brix Andersen 66.Aq henrik@brixandersen.dk . 67