Complete Guide: Installing hsmwiz on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) 2025

1. Install "hsmwiz" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install hsmwiz on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                hsmwiz
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "hsmwiz" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall hsmwiz on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                hsmwiz
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the hsmwiz package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: hsmwiz
Architecture: all
Version: 0.0.2-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Python Team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 110
Depends: python3:any, libengine-pkcs11-openssl, opensc, opensc-pkcs11, openssl
Filename: pool/universe/h/hsmwiz/hsmwiz_0.0.2-1_all.deb
Size: 17848
MD5sum: bda14e26ff74468ae66cccf7b94b28dd
SHA1: 3b900aa404863142990438ac51e0eadc75a54ce9
SHA256: 1a25e397dc28accc20dd8d56256dd9ce6b36e88cc9bf4d66eb15b55cc6b035c2
SHA512: 5d643b675acbaa2a12dfbfffe2e469ac44dee3c43b062e64a0adf68f2e03135d5c025947504d3a9a57546005c3f33a6592eb2ef3401b2be3eb576d03ef113526
Homepage: https://github.com/johndoe31415/hsmwiz
Description-en: Easy handling of NitroKey HSM USB Smard Card
HSMWiz is a frontend for OpenSC to ease handling of the NitroKey
HSM USB smart card. It might work with other smart cards as well, I'm
not certain. Basically, it is just boilerplate that does nothing more
than what is already described in the excellent OpenSC tutorial
(https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/SmartCardHSM) for the Smart
Card HSM. However, there's some annoying issues with that -- multiple
tools are needed (pkcs11-tool, pkcs15-tool, sc-hsm-tool, OpenSSL) and
output formats are sometimes not very user friendly (e.g., public
keys are exported as binary DER blobs instead of PEM files). So I
wrote this little frontend to encapsulate common tasks a bit. The
hardware this was develped with is the NitroKey HSM, which is a quite
affordable smart-card based USB HSM.
Description-md5: d62ea95183fb56a7a857154a03f47069