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how-to retrieve a wireless network password

Asked by fbcarola

when I run the gnome-keyring-manager for each wireless network it appears a alfanumeric string labeled as password but I'm sure that these string it's not the real password of the network so
How can I get the real password of a wireless network from these string??

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Peter Jentsch (peter-jentsch-gmail) said : 		#1

The strings shown in the gnome-keyring-manager are generated from the original passphrase using the "wpa_passphrase" tool. If you're not sure about your wireless network passphrase and don't want to reset it, you might try to encode some guessed passphrases using the wpa_passphrase tool and see which encodes to the same string as shown in the keyring-manager.

I think there's no way to decode the passphase shown in the keyring-manager automatically. So if you forgot the passphase completely, you will have to reset in on the router.

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