[openssl-users] Need help encrypting my ca.key

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Viktor Dukhovni
<openssl-users at dukhovni.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 12:23:35AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
>> Use -outform to control the output encoding. I think the two values of
>> interest are DER and PEM.
>
> What actually matters are multiple ASN.1 key formats.  Whether the
> ASN.1 is raw binary or packaged in PEM is secondary.
>
It seems to me he's interested in using the same format so the keys
don't diff across commands. He should probably pick something
(-outform PEM or DER) and use it consistently to satisfy his
requirements.

If I misread, then my apologies.