Unable to load Private Key. (PEM routines:PEM_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:648:Expecting: ANY PRIVATE KEY)

Question

I have a .key file which is PEM formatted private key file. I didn\'t make this file but I got this from somewhere.

I wanted to see its MD5 hash with openssl tool li

Answer 1

Open the key file in Notepad++ and verify the encoding. If it says UTF-8-BOM then change it to UTF-8. Save the file and try again.