Factory reset#
There are two types of factory resets for Nitrokey Storage devices:
a factory reset of the OpenPGP smart card, for example using
gpg --card-edit
, followed byadmin
and finally:factory-reset
a factory reset of the entire Nitrokey device using the Nitrokey App.
Also, it is possible to generate a new AES key that is used to encrypt the Password Safe and the Encrypted Volume without performing a factory reset.
Note
The Nitrokey App always generates a new AES key after performing a factory reset.
The factory reset can be triggered in the Nitrokey App with the menu entry
Configure->Special Configure->Factory reset
.
Note
The factory reset is an administrative function and is only available after
starting the Nitrokey App with the parameter --admin
.
The following table describes the differences between these three operations: