Doing it via:

openssl rsa -in inca.key.pem -des3 -out outca.key.pem

would be preferable since the -des3 would trigger output
encryption, and you would be ASKED for the new pass phrase,
while using stdin it just gapes at you with no prompt.
I was (unsuccessfully) trying to remember the trigger for
output encryption and I thought -passout rather than -des3.

David Gianndrea wrote:

Ok so to recap I would do the following.

openssl rsa -in origca.key.pem -passout stdin -out newca.key.pem
openssl rsa -in newca.key.pem -des3 -out ca.key.pem

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