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evanarb
evanarb

Reputation: 163

Getting an error when trying to decrypt file using openssl

I'm trying to use openssl to encrypt a private key that I later need to decrypt to use as part of a JWT auth workflow.

The steps to generate the key are below:

$ openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:x -out server.pass.key 2048
$ openssl rsa -passin pass:x -in server.pass.key -out server.key
$ rm server.pass.key
$ openssl req -new -key server.key -out server.csr
$ openssl x509 -req -sha256 -days 365 -in server.csr -signkey server.key - 
out server.crt
$ rm server.csr
$ openssl aes-256-cbc -k $KEY -in assets/server.key -out 
assets/server.key.enc -e

the $KEY is a symmetric password I've saved to my bash instance. When I try to decrypt I get this error:

openssl aes-256-cbc -k $KEY -in assets/server.key.enc -out assets/server.key -d -md sha256

bad decrypt
4736276076:error:06FFF064:digital envelope routines:CRYPTO_internal:bad 
decrypt:/BuildRoot/Library/Caches/com.apple.xbs/Sources/libressl/libressl- 
22.240.1/libressl-2.6/crypto/evp/evp_enc.c:533:

Thanks,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3675

Answers (1)

evanarb
evanarb

Reputation: 163

PATH had an outdated version of OPENSSL. Referred to this article to set the PATH correctly Update OpenSSL on OS X with Homebrew

Upvotes: 1

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