cowpatty - Man Page
Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK
Description
Implementation of an offline dictionary attack against WPA/WPA2 networks using PSK-based authentication (e.g. WPA-Personal)
Synopsis
cowpatty < -d | -r > < HASH-FILE | CAPTURE-FILE > -f WORDLIST -s SSID
Options
- -f
Dictionary file
- -d
Hash file (genpmk)
- -r
Packet capture file
- -s
Network SSID (enclose in quotes if SSID includes spaces)
- -c
Check for valid 4-way frames, does not crack
- -h
Print this help information and exit
- -v
Print verbose information (more -v for more verbosity)
- -V
Print program version and exit
Author
cowpatty was developed Joshua Wright <jwright@hwillhackforsushi.com>.
This manual page was written by Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org> for the Debian project, it was based on cowpatty -h output and can be used by other projects as well.
See Also
genpmk(1)
aircrack-ng(1)
airodump-ng(1)
airmon-ng(1)
wifite(1)