wpa_passphrase - Man Page

• Compute and display the WPA-PSK key for a given SSID reading the passphrase from stdin: wpa_passphrase SSID
• Compute and display WPA-PSK key for a given SSID specifying the passphrase as an argument: wpa_passphrase SSID passphrase

tldr.sh

wpa_passphrase [ ssid ]  [ passphrase ]

wpa_passphrase pre-computes PSK entries for network configuration blocks of a wpa_supplicant.conf file. An ASCII passphrase and SSID are used to generate a 256-bit PSK.

ssid

The SSID whose passphrase should be derived.

passphrase

The passphrase to use. If not included on the command line, passphrase will be read from standard input.

wpa_supplicant.conf(5) wpa_supplicant(8)

wpa_supplicant is copyright (c) 2003-2022, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors. All Rights Reserved.

This program is licensed under the BSD license (the one with advertisement clause removed).

wpa_supplicant(8).