mat-options(1)</a> for details.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="cipher"><b>-<i>cipher</i></b></dt>
<dd>

<p>Encrypt the PEM encoded private key with the supplied cipher. Any algorithm name accepted by EVP_get_cipherbyname() is acceptable such as <b>aes128</b>. Encryption is not supported for DER output.</p>

</dd>
<dt id="passout-arg"><b>-passout</b> <i>arg</i></dt>
<dd>

<p>The password source for the output file.</p>

<p>For more information about the format of <b>arg</b> see <a href="../man1/openssl-passphrase-option