Hi, I generate pkcs#8 certificates and private keys ancrypted with passphrase. But am unable to get the method that uses this passphrase which helps to decrypt the encrypted key. I need to know b'coz in my implementation I have file containing encrypted keys, and so I want to implement something like this: if I use a phrase then this should verify against each encrypted key. and I want to make it return true or false. depending upon whether it is encrypted using that passphrase or not. shashank ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]