Nitrokey/pynitrokey

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Python client for Nitrokey devices

Stars: 123
Forks: 37
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 89
Avg merge: 8h 47m
Merged PRs (30d): 8

Dominant language: Python
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Sep 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue

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89 open issues indexed

piv change-admin-key: no way to pass the new key without exposing it on the command line Open

application:piv device/Nitrokey 3

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Nitrokey/pynitrokey#791 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
NK3 update output when it's sucessful is not clear enough Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#776 · Opened Jul 27, 2026
nitropy nk3 update fails with "Critical error: unhandled exception: SPSDKConnectionError() (due to missing permissions) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#770 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2026
validate-update: Add explicit validation status to output Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#765 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 25, 2026
Logs left sitting in /tmp Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#758 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2026
naming of clustering commands Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#749 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Rename the default branch from "master" to "main" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#748 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2026
ci: windows onedir and onefile tests don’t fail if they should Open

CI

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#747 · Opened Mar 26, 2026
nethsm: cli option check after lengthy backup verification Open

device/NetHSM

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#739 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2026
PIV: Improve certificate output format selection Open

application:piv

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#737 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2026
PIV: Add generate-csr command Open

application:piv

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#736 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Allow using hidapi 0.15.0? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#730 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 6, 2026
Device not found for specific operations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#712 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 5, 2025
PIV: Support all algorithms the NK3 support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#700 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Support for interactive PIV management key reading Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#699 · Opened Oct 25, 2025
Too complicated nitropy installation in Debian Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#698 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 24, 2025
PIV key generation fails Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#685 · 2 comments · Opened May 8, 2025
Unable to add more credentials Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#638 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 11, 2025
nethsm: support pinning TLS certificate for nitropy commands Open

device/NetHSM

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#635 · 9 comments · Opened Apr 1, 2025
nk3 update: Wrong nonce error if Nitrokey App 2 is running Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#624 · 7 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2025
PIV: add support for the new algorithms Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#621 · Opened Jan 29, 2025
Avoid prompting for PIN if no device is detected Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#619 · Opened Jan 29, 2025
nk3 test: Use ctaphid for provisioner test case Open

device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#618 · Opened Jan 28, 2025
Failed to transmit with protocol T1 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#616 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 17, 2025
Installation problems with Python 3.13 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#610 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 10, 2025
piv: Log import error Open

application:piv device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#608 · Opened Jan 9, 2025
nk3: Improve error message for missing udev rules Open

device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#600 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 12, 2024
Separate Nitrokey FIDO2 and generic FIDO2 commands Open

application:fido enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#595 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 8, 2024
piv: Devices used by other processes cause an error Open

application:piv bug device/Nitrokey 3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#592 · Opened Nov 29, 2024
Improve log file creation Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#587 · Opened Nov 26, 2024
[0.6.0] strange error on update when more the one device are connected. Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#578 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2024
nk3: Add more nrf52 bootloader functionality Open

device/Nitrokey 3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#570 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 19, 2024
nk3 validate-update: Print binary checksums Open

device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#547 · Opened Jun 19, 2024
Rename this project to nitropy for consistency? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#544 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2024
Factory Reset of Different Apps not Working Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#540 · Opened May 14, 2024
[0.4.46] nk3 secrets Unusual message when no pin try left Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#526 · Opened Apr 9, 2024
[0.4.46] nk3 secrets Unusual message when entering the wrong pin Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#525 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 9, 2024
trussed.admin_app: Missing ConfigStatus 8: NOT_CONFIRMED Open

bug device/Nitrokey 3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#511 · Opened Mar 13, 2024
nk3 secrets: Ramdomly generate challenge-response secret Open

application:secrets device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#508 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 7, 2024
secrets: Sort and filter credentials Open

device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#498 · Opened Jan 25, 2024
Sign release artifacts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#495 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 17, 2024
packaging for Debian Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#494 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 16, 2024
nk3 secrets add-password quick help needs clarification Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#493 · Opened Jan 14, 2024
allow setting touch required and/or pin required for hmac-sha1 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#487 · 4 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2023
nk3 secrets: informational output should go to stderr Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 62/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#484 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 3, 2023
NonUniqueDeviceError while Yubikey NEO is connected Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#482 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 24, 2023
nk3: Add PIN overview Open

device/Nitrokey 3 enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#467 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2023
nitropy slow on Librem5 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#463 · 6 comments · Opened Nov 7, 2023
Use click.Path for filenames Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#460 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 30, 2023
Document Command Line Completion Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Nitrokey/pynitrokey#455 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 18, 2023

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