How To Install hsmwiz on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install hsmwiz on Kali Linux.

What is hsmwiz

hsmwiz is:

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.

There are three methods to install hsmwiz on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install hsmwiz Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install hsmwiz using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install hsmwiz

Install hsmwiz Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install hsmwiz using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install hsmwiz

Install hsmwiz Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install hsmwiz using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install hsmwiz

How To Uninstall hsmwiz on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the hsmwiz package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove hsmwiz

Uninstall hsmwiz And Its Dependencies

To uninstall hsmwiz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove hsmwiz

Remove hsmwiz Configurations and Data

To remove hsmwiz configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge hsmwiz

Remove hsmwiz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove hsmwiz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hsmwiz

Dependencies

hsmwiz have the following dependencies:

• python3

References

• hsmwiz website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install hsmwiz package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.