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Unable to decrypt password protected key pkcs8

I am unable to decrypt the password protected key pkcs8

using the command below openssl

. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong?

Command:

openssl pkcs8 -in keyname.pem -out labs.pem

Output:

Error decrypting key
 140471497754272:error:0D0680A8:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_CHECK_TLEN:wrong    tag:tasn_dec.c:1319:
140471497754272:error:0D07803A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_ITEM_EX_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:381:Type=X509_ALGOR
140471497754272:error:0D08303A:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_TEMPLATE_NOEXP_D2I:nested asn1 error:tasn_dec.c:751:Field=pkeyalg, Type=PKCS8_PRIV_KEY_INFO
140471497754272:error:2306A065:PKCS12 routines:PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i:decode error:p12_decr.c:148:
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Try it like this:

openssl pkcs8 -v1 PBE-SHA1-3DES -in C:\1.pem -out C:\1_decrypted.pem


This will try to decrypt your container using SHA1-3DES algorithms

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