genkey (and keyutil) fail generating certificates with error "(null): bad certificate request : error -8016"

Issue

• The genkey and keyutil commands provided by the crypto-utils RPM fail to generate ssl certificates with error like the following:

  Generating key. This may take a few moments...
  
  Made a key
  Opened tmprequest for writing
  (null): bad certificate request
  : error -8016
  (null): Segmentation fault (core dumped)