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5 <refentrytitle>wpa_passphrase</refentrytitle>
6 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
9 <refname>wpa_passphrase</refname>
10 <refpurpose>Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID</refpurpose>
14 <command>wpa_passphrase</command>
15 <arg><replaceable>ssid</replaceable></arg>
16 <arg><replaceable>passphrase</replaceable></arg>
21 <title>Overview</title>
23 <para><command>wpa_passphrase</command> pre-computes PSK entries for
24 network configuration blocks of a
25 <filename>wpa_supplicant.conf</filename> file. An ASCII passphrase
26 and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK.</para>
30 <title>Options</title>
35 <para>The SSID whose passphrase should be derived.</para>
40 <term>passphrase</term>
42 <para>The passphrase to use. If not included on the command line,
43 passphrase will be read from standard input.</para>
50 <title>See Also</title>
53 <refentrytitle>wpa_supplicant.conf</refentrytitle>
54 <manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
57 <refentrytitle>wpa_supplicant</refentrytitle>
58 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
65 <para>wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2017,
66 Jouni Malinen <email>j@w1.fi</email> and
68 All Rights Reserved.</para>
70 <para>This program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with
71 advertisement clause removed).</para>