On Wed, Mar 17, 2010, Mark Spruiell wrote: > Thanks, that seems to fix it. > > One more thing: when I was looking for a solution to this issue, > I tried to convert the private key into the old format. I thought I > could do it with a command like this: > > openssl pkcs8 -in key.pem -out oldkey.pem -passout pass:password > > However, it seems as if the -passout option has no effect, because > the resulting key in oldkey.pem can be loaded without a password. > > What is the proper way of generating (or converting) a private key > in the old format with a password? >
Hmm there should be an option in the pkcs8 utility but there isn't at present. You can do: openssl rsa -in key.pem -des3 -out keyold.pem Steve. -- Dr Stephen N. Henson. OpenSSL project core developer. Commercial tech support now available see: http://www.openssl.org ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
