.TH COWPATTY "1" "June 2018" "cowpatty 4.6" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
cowpatty \- Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK
.SH DESCRIPTION
Implementation of an offline dictionary attack against WPA/WPA2 networks using PSK-based authentication (e.g. WPA-Personal)
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fB cowpatty\fR \fB< -d | -r >\fR < \fIHASH-FILE\fR | \fICAPTURE-FILE\fR > \fB-f\fR \fIWORDLIST\fR \fB-s\fR \fISSID\fR
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-f\fR
Dictionary file
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
Hash file (genpmk)
.TP
\fB\-r\fR
Packet capture file
.TP
\fB\-s\fR
Network SSID (enclose in quotes if SSID includes spaces)
.TP
\fB\-c\fR
Check for valid 4\-way frames, does not crack
.TP
\fB\-h\fR
Print this help information and exit
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
Print verbose information (more \fB\-v\fR for more verbosity)
.TP
\fB\-V\fR
Print program version and exit
.SH AUTHOR
cowpatty was developed Joshua Wright <jwright@hwillhackforsushi.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> for the Debian project, it was based on \fBcowpatty -h\fR output and can be used by other projects as well.
.SH SEE ALSO
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.B genpmk(1)
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.B aircrack-ng(1)
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.B airodump-ng(1)
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.B airmon-ng(1)
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.B wifite(1)