* Alex Samad: > speaking from experience, I could have missed something, but when I > unencrypted a encrypted private key it all worked (i used openssl), my > presumption (and this might be were I am making a mistake) is that the > format for x509 cert's is a standard. I will follow up on this There are several standards for encrypted private keys, though. PEM vs. DER, PKCS#5 v1.5, PKCS#8, PKCS#12. The list is pretty long.