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Using the -k option, you can specify a password. Passwords are not really encryption keys, so OpenSSL uses a key derivation process to turn the password into an encryption key. It turns out by default OpenSSL uses a salt in that derivation process (which is why you see Salted in the output).
If the salt changes, the encryption key changes. If the encryption ...
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