Yes. Ask the person that owns the key :)
Otherwise, you're going to need to figure out how to exploit whatever
encryption was used on the key. I don't think there's any realistic way to
get this information (and there probably shouldn't be).
--Tom
At 08:31 AM 5/2/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>Next question. Is there anyway to determine what the PEM pass phrase is for
>a given key?
>
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>
> > I found the answer to this once in the list archives, but neglected
> > to write it down. I have a key that I need to decrypt so that I can
> > run multiple keys on my server without have to type in the PEM
> > phrase.
> >
> > Can someone help me with this?
> >
>
>These are the old directions, just replace the command
>ssleay with openssl
>
>Step two - remove the passphrase from the key (optional):
>
> ssleay rsa -in privkey.pem -out new.cert.key
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