OpenSSL won't create private keys?

Question

Okay, well, this is my first time working with encryption on a project. I am using my hosting provider for SSL, but I also want to encrypt portions of the database that are

Answer 1

Banged around my head with getting this to work on windows10 with xampp php 5.5. Finally figured tabone's answer above was in the right direction EXCEPT path format needed to be forward slashed!

C:/xampp/php/extras/openssl/openssl.cnf

Hope this helps someone.