I have a .key file, when I do
openssl rsa -text -in file.key
I get
unable to load Private Key
140000419358368:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY
Also I have a .cer file and when I do
openssl x509 -text -in file.cer
I get
unable to load certificate
140387178489504:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:703:Expecting: TRUSTED CERTIFICATE
But if as pointed here I run the command like:
openssl x509 -text -inform DER -in file.cer
I get
Certificate:
Data:
Version: 3 (0x2)
Some more information
...
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
MIIEdDCCA1ygAwIBAgIUMjAwMDEwMDAwMDAxMDAwMDU4NjcwDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEF
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----
But that doesn't seem to work with the key, because when I run
openssl rsa -text -inform DER -in aaa010101aaa__csd_10.key
I get
unable to load Private Key
140004844304032:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag:tasn_dec.c:1337:
140004844304032:error:0D06C03A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_D2I_EX_PRIMITIVE:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:849:
140004844304032:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:769:Field=version, Type=RSA
140004844304032:error:04093004:rsa routines:OLD_RSA_PRIV_DECODE:RSA lib:rsa_ameth.c:115:
140004844304032:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong tag:tasn_dec.c:1337:
140004844304032:error:0D06C03A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_D2I_EX_PRIMITIVE:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:849:
140004844304032:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:769:Field=version, Type=PKCS8_PRIV_KEY_INFO
How can I get the private key and its certificate?
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I ran into the 'Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY' error when using openssl on Windows (Ubuntu Bash and Git Bash had the same issue).
The cause of the problem was that I'd saved the key and certificate files in Notepad using UTF8. Resaving both files in ANSI format solved the problem.
On my execution of openssl pkcs12 -export -out cacert.pkcs12 -in testca/cacert.pem, I received the following message:
unable to load private key 140707250050712:error:0906D06C:PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:701:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY`
Got this solved by providing the key file along with the command. The switch is -inkey inkeyfile.pem
My two cents: came across the same error message in RHEL7.3 while running the openssl command with root CA certificate. The reason being, while downloading the certificate from AD server, Encoding was selected as DER instead of Base64. Once the proper version of encoding was selected for the new certificate download, error was resolved
Hope this helps for new users :-)
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