none of wpa_passphrase

Eitarou Kamo e-kamo at trio.plala.or.jp
Fri Aug 10 04:57:36 PDT 2007



Pietro Cerutti wrote:

>Eitarou Kamo wrote:
>  
>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>I used wpa _supplicant  and was aware none of  wpa _passphrase.
>>>My machine is  6.2  REREASE. Does anyone have it or way to making it?
>>>      
>>>
>
>These kind of generic questions are better suited for
>freebsd-questions@, i doubt.
>
>Anyway, from man 8 wpa_passphrase:
>
>The wpa_passphrase utility is a small program for generating a 256-bit
>pre-shared WPA key from an ASCII passphrase and a given SSID. The output
>is formatted for inclusion in wpa_supplicant.conf(5).
>
>Example:
>I have an access point with ssid MySSID and passphrase MyS3cr3t:
>
>  
>
>>wpa_passphrase MySSID
>>    
>>
># reading passphrase from stdin
>MyS3cr3t
>network={
>        ssid="MySSID"
>        #psk="MyS3cr3t"
>       psk=c0964594a3000e7605ef17097f7d939a44e516f05b99806fd862db5934c2e4d4
>}
>
>The output is ready to be included in your wpa_supplicant.conf file
>(better removing the commented line where the password is in clear text).
>nf
>  
>
 My question is not the usage of it but itself....  I can't use
wpa_supplicant  because
none of it. Is there it anywhere? Haven't it been dealt with stable yet?

Eitarou


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