cowpatty(1)

Brute-force dictionary attack against WPA-PSK

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Description

COWPATTY

NAME

cowpatty - 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.