Installed Ubuntu on a VirtualBox and followed your instructions down to the letter. It worked.
Thank you so much HCP - you went above and beyond here. Legend.
Really appreciated.
Awesome, glad you got it sorted...
I wish I had know about this "-md md5" business a couple of years ago when the whole multibit shutting down thing kicked off. There were a lot of people struggling with various multibit backup files and "incorrect password" issues... I now suspect that this might also be the reason why the openssl method did not work for a lot of people back then.
