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Supporting NetHSM
Soon we will launch NetHSM which is a network appliance HSM containing a REST interface. Would you be interested to support NetHSM? Obviously it would require entirely different dependencies.
That looks very interesting! The Nitrokey devices and the NetHSM don’t have any shared features, and NetHSM won’t be supported by libnitrokey, right?
In this case, a separate application would probably be easier to maintain and to test. Though it would make sense to try to create a consistent UI for both tools (configuration, command structure, option and command names, etc.).
From a user’s perspective, it doesn’t make a big difference whether I
have to call nitrocli nethsm ... or, let’s say, nethsmcli ..., as
long as we make sure that the UI is similar.
The Nitrokey devices and the NetHSM don’t have any shared features, and NetHSM won’t be supported by libnitrokey, right?
That's correct.
In this case, a separate application would probably be easier to maintain and to test.
You mean a separate application also packaged separately?
You mean a separate application also packaged separately?
I think that’s up to Daniel. Both could work. In theory, both applications could also share some of the configuration and command-line parsing code, but off the top of my head, most of that code would be application-specific.
It could be an extension, mostly just to have it accessible under a unified UI. I would not consider it to belong into nitrocli core.
