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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mta.opensslfoundation.net/pipermail/openssl-users/attachments/20150105/12ddbe83/attachment.html>