On Fri, Nov 14, 2008, Martin P. Hellwig wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was playing around with the 0.9.8g version (actually I am wrapping the 
> CLI to use with python) and I stumbled across the following:
> when I do:
> openssl rsa -outform NET -in test.pem -out test.net -passout pass:test
> It still asks me on the command line for an password while I expected it to 
> use the password defined by -passout pass:test.
> I also tried -passin, but that didn't work either.
>
> Is there some obvious thing I am doing wrong?
>

No that's just a limitation of the NET format functions in OpenSSL. It is such
an old non-standard and broken format, I can't see why anyone would want to
use it anymore.

Steve.
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