.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "WPA_PASSPHRASE" "8" "14 October 2017" "" "" .SH NAME wpa_passphrase \- Generate a WPA PSK from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID .SH SYNOPSIS \fBwpa_passphrase\fR [ \fB\fIssid\fB\fR ] [ \fB\fIpassphrase\fB\fR ] .SH "OVERVIEW" .PP \fBwpa_passphrase\fR pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a \fIwpa_supplicant.conf\fR file. An ASCII passphrase and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK. .SH "OPTIONS" .TP \fBssid\fR The SSID whose passphrase should be derived. .TP \fBpassphrase\fR The passphrase to use. If not included on the command line, passphrase will be read from standard input. .SH "SEE ALSO" .PP \fBwpa_supplicant.conf\fR(5) \fBwpa_supplicant\fR(8) .SH "LEGAL" .PP wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2014, Jouni Malinen and contributors. All Rights Reserved. .PP This program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with advertisement clause removed).