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smartcard-hsm doc updates#246

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@jpmens jpmens commented Oct 18, 2025

more updates to this page, sorry.

  • after reading the output of cascade hsm fiveteen or more times :) I determine it's actually the slotID we need in username, and I update the page accordingly.

  • Also to personlize the document a bit, I configure the card with a token label "NL-smartcard".

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Found a few things that weren't actually part of this PR.


The card is configured with the SO PIN and user PIN as per the vendor. You can
initialize (i.e. fully reset_ the card and change these using ``sc-hsm-tool``
which is provided in the ``opensc`` package:
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which is provided in the :program:`opensc` package:

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fixed

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Use the :program:`pkcs11-tool` program from the :program:`opensc` package installed earlier

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fixed

  - after reading the output of `cascade hsm` fiveteen or more times :) I
    determine it's actually the slotID we need in username, and I update
    the page accordingly.

  - Also to personlize the document a bit, I configure the card with a
    token label "NL-smartcard".
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Thanks again!

@AlexanderBand AlexanderBand merged commit ccad20e into NLnetLabs:main Oct 19, 2025
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