cowpatty(1)

cowpatty1

Brute-force dictionary attack against wpa-psk

Usage

cowpatty {< -d | -r > < HASH-FILE | CAPTURE-FILE > -f WORDLIST -s SSID}

Overview

Implementation of an offline dictionary attack against WPA/WPA2 networks using PSK-based authentication (e.g. WPA-Personal)

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

Releases

Unchanged in 4 releases since Debian 10 (Buster).

  1. 10–13

Author

cowpatty was developed Joshua Wright <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Samuel Henrique <[email protected]> for the Debian project, it was based on cowpatty -h output and can be used by other projects as well.

From cowpatty 4.8-3+b2 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.