How to Install and Uninstall kcapi-tools Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 18,2024

1. Install "kcapi-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install kcapi-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "kcapi-tools" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall kcapi-tools on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                kcapi-tools
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the kcapi-tools package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: kcapi-tools
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.2.0-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Source: libkcapi
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Mathieu Malaterre
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 99
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.25), libkcapi1 (>= 1.2.0)
Filename: pool/universe/libk/libkcapi/kcapi-tools_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 25068
MD5sum: d1ef41733720fca73260c96c444f9eb8
SHA1: faf9381027c3e34d44ba8a09a4766b1737277be2
SHA256: a4898709aff98d0640bcd13586c110b107f584a5117e56f114750a751f2bb2ed
SHA512: 8ef866a7601471dd9bfd8bca351535d5187ebe58bfff364353c5c3b39fe13cbf3364ebba0da45800e459250630e66d5a3c76fc3268314faefb9004d601f94956
Homepage: http://www.chronox.de/libkcapi.html
Description-en: Command-line tools for Linux Kernel Crypto API
The Linux kernel exports a Netlink interface of type AF_ALG to allow user
space to utilize the kernel crypto API. libkcapi uses this Netlink interface
and exports easy to use APIs so that a developer does not need to consider the
low-level Netlink interface handling.
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The library does not implement any cipher algorithms. All consumer requests
are sent to the kernel for processing. Results from the kernel crypto API
are returned to the consumer via the library API.
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The kernel interface and therefore this library can be used by unprivileged
processes.
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Install this package for the kcapi-dgst, kcapi-enc & kcapi-rng applications
Description-md5: 7eab4ce659860e810ca8109938df8d3f