wpa_passphrase Command Examples

Generate a WPA-PSK key from an ASCII passphrase for a SSID. More information: https://manned.org/wpa_passphrase.1.

• 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}}