[openssl-users] Generate ECC key with password protection

Jakob Bohm jb-openssl at wisemo.com
Wed Jul 20 14:26:55 UTC 2016


On 20/07/2016 16:21, Ken Goldman wrote:
> From these web pages:
>
> https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Command_Line_Elliptic_Curve_Operations
>
> https://www.openssl.org/docs/manmaster/apps/ecparam.html
>
> the "openssl ecparam -genkey" command does not accept a password. The 
> (perhaps) equivalent "openssl genrsa" command does.
>
> Is there a openssl command that can generate an ECC key pair where the 
> output file is password protected?
>
openssl genpkey

Enjoy

Jakob
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