Thanks for the response.  First I am running this on Windows 7.   Questions

1. How can I determine what key format my ca.key is in?
2. You say there are multiple key formats for the same key, but for my peace of 
mind I would like to get the same key format that I originally had.  How can I 
do this?

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 02:48:13 +0000
> From: openssl-us...@dukhovni.org
> To: openssl-users@openssl.org
> Subject: Re: [openssl-users] Need help encrypting my ca.key
> 
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:37:24PM -0600, jack seth wrote:
> > I must be doing something wrong but I can't figure out what it is.  I am 
> > trying to encrypt my private ca key with this command
> >  
> > openssl rsa -in ca.key -out caencrypted.key -aes256
> >  
> > This works fine but the problem is I don't get the original key back when I 
> > decrypt it using this command
> >  
> > openssl rsa -in caencrypted.key -out catest.key
> >  
> >  
> > catest.key doesn't have the same characters in it as ca.key when looking at 
> > them in a text editor.   What am I missing here?                            
> >               
> 
> There are multiple possible key formats for the same key. Instead
> compare the outputs of:
> 
>     $ umask 077
>     $ openssl rsa -in ca.key -noout -text > txt1
>     $ openssl rsa -in catest.key -noout -text > txt2
>     $ diff txt1 txt2
> 
> -- 
>       Viktor.
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