This is indication that you're using Red Hat specific configuration file with the OpenSSL-3.1.0-beta1 build. Red Hat adds some patches to their OpenSSL builds to support additional configuration options in the config file. These options won't be recognized by upstream build and cause such errors. That basically means that you cannot use the same openssldir for the Red Hat build of OpenSSL and regular upstream OpenSSL builds. Tomas Mraz, OpenSSL On Fri, 2022-12-23 at 17:02 -0800, Hal Murray wrote: > > My notes from 3.0 beta include this step to verify that I got -- > openssldir > configured correctly. > > $ util/shlib_wrap.sh ./apps/openssl version -d > > Now it says: > FATAL: Startup failure (dev note: apps_startup()) for ./apps/openssl > 40772751647F0000:error:030000A9:digital envelope > routines:alg_module_init:unkno > wn option:crypto/evp/evp_cnf.c:61:name=rh-allow-sha1-signatures, > value=yes > 40772751647F0000:error:0700006D:configuration file > routines:module_run:module > initialization error:crypto/conf/conf_mod.c:270:module=alg_section, > value=evp_properties retcode=-1 > > > Did this area change from 3.0 to 3.1? > -- Tomáš Mráz, OpenSSL