On Aug 9, 2010, at 8:18 PM, Alfonso Espitia wrote:

> Hello all, it's been a while since I had to generate a new key and get
> SSL to work on Pound.
>
> I remember specifically in the Pound documentation that it said that the
> key can not have a passphrase on it, has this changed with any of the
> recent versions?
>
> It looks like some of the SSL certificate standards have changed so
> everything is requiring a 2048 key.
>
> When I run this:
>
> openssl genrsa -des3 -out <name of your certificate>.key 2048

-des3 means it should encrypt the key with a passphrase. Leave that out, and 
the passphrase becomes optional.

/Eirik


> it asks for a passphrase, and will not let you proceed unless you type
> something in.
>
> Can someone send instructions on how to get past this, or configure
> pound to allow for a passphrase?
>
> Thanks.
>
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