se the same byte sequence as it is.</p>

<h2 id="Creating-new-objects">Creating new objects</h2>

<p>For creating new pass phrase protected objects, make sure the pass phrase is encoded using UTF-8. This is default on most modern Unixes, but may involve an effort on other platforms. Specifically for Windows, setting the environment variable <b>OPENSSL_WIN32_UTF8</b> will have anything entered on [Windows] console prompt converted to UTF-8 (command line and separately prompted pass phrases alike).</p>

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