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
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Viktor.
