Authentication for Snowflake fails

Problem

Authentication for Snowflake fails when you use private key. When you create the private key with DES algorithm (as in the official snowflake tutorial on how to set up the private key file: https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/key-pair-auth#generate-the-private-key) and use it in Manta, the following error message is displayed:

  Query failed - Cannot create PoolableConnectionFactory (Private key provided is invalid or not supported: C:\Users\SomeUser\tmp\rsa_key.p8: PBE parameter parsing error: expecting the object identifier for AES cipher)

Solution

To fix this problem change the encryption algorithm to AES with the following command: openssl rsa -in rsa_key.p8 -aes256 -out rsa_key_aes.p8