Hi Jeremie,

backup and pasted the var/crypto/ folders with the cacert and private key
from my working server to the new server but when it comes to issue a new
cert request or a new crl, my CA passphrase fails.

I've got the following messages in the CA interface after entering the CA
passphrase: - for new CSR signing request : Error 6702: General Error Cannot
use the private key of the CA (7113050). Wrong passphrase for private key!
- For new CRL building:
Initializing CA token ... ECHEC
OpenCA::Token errorcode: 7113050
OpenCA::Token errormessage: Wrong passphrase for private key!

Hmm that seems strange...
Can you first have a look into the cakey.pem file - is it a regular PEM encoded key ? (should look like:
-----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
Proc-Type: 4,ENCRYPTED
DEK-Info: DES-EDE3-CBC,ED8534....
...some lines of chars....
-----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----

If it looks like this you can try the password on the key with
> openssl rsa -in cakey.pem -noout

Do you have any special chars in the passphres ? Well known troublemakers are $<>= - if so try to change the passphrase
> openssl rsa -in cakey.pem.old -des3 -out cakey.pem.new

Oliver
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