Description

The PRIVATE_KEY_FILE option specifies either:

File from which the RSA private key is read (certificate creation/verification only, use the PRIVATE_KEY_INFILE option to re-use private keys for request creation).
File to which the RSA private key is written when generating a certificate request.

The key is encoded in a password encrypted PKCS #8 syntax.

Usage

Method	Syntax	IBM i	HP NonStop	UNIX	Windows	z/OS
Command Line, Short Form	-e ddname or file
Command Line, Long Form	-private_key_file ddname or file
Environment Variable	UCRPRIVATEKEYFILE=ddname or file

ddname or file is the name of the file.

The format of the file is specified by the PRIVATE_KEY_FORMAT option.