Command overview

The following table provides a summary of all APDU commands supported by the Cryptnox Hardware Wallet card, along with their authentication and security requirements.

Application & info

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
SELECT	Selects the Cryptnox applet.	✗	✗	✗
Get Card Public Key	Retrieves the card factory EC public key.	✗	✗	✗
Get Manufacturer Certificate	Reads Cryptnox X509 manufacturer certificate (paged).	✗	✗	✗
Get Card Certificate	Retrieves ephemeral session certificate (for secure channel setup).	✗	✗	✗

Initialization

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
INIT	Initializes card with PIN, PUK, and pairing key.	✓ One-shot	✗	✓ Set initial
Open Secure Channel	Establishes Secure Channel with pairing key.	✗	✗	0xFF fallback
Mutually Authenticate	Confirms Secure Channel integrity with challenge/response.	✗	✗	✗
Change Pairing Key	Updates Secure Channel pairing key.	✓	✗	✗

User authentication

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
Verify PIN	Verifies user PIN, unlocks card for session.	✓	✓ PIN	✗
Change PIN / PUK	Changes PIN or PUK.	✓	✓ PIN or PUK	✓ To change PUK
Unblock PIN	Unblocks PIN with PUK and new PIN.	✓	✗	✓
Add User Key	Stores external user public key (ECDSA, RSA, FIDO).	✓	✓ PIN / User Key	✓ If PIN disabled
Check User Key	Performs challenge-response authentication using user key.	✓	✓ User Key sig	✗
Delete User Key	Deletes a registered user key slot.	✓	✗	✓
Set Pin Auth	Enables/disables PIN auth (forces User Key only).	✓	✗	✓

Key management

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
Load Key	Loads seed, keypair, or performs dual seed generation.	✓	✓	✗
Generate Key	Generates new seed internally.	✓	✓	✗
Set Pinless Path	Configures EIP-1581 pinless derivation path.	✓	✗	✓
Set Pub Export	Enables xpub or clear pubkey output.	✓	✗	✓
Get Public Key	Reads current or derived public key, xpub.	✓ Except pinless	✓ Except pinless	✗
Derive Key	Derives new key pair from seed (BIP32 / SLIP-0010).	✓	✓	✗
Generate TRNG Random	Outputs random data (16–64 bytes).	✓	✗	✗

Signing & decryption

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
Sign	Signs hash (ECDSA / Schnorr).	✓ Except pinless	✓ Except pinless	✗
Decrypt	ECIES-like decryption / symmetric key output.	✓	✓	✗

Data & history

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
Get Card Info / Read Data	Reads owner info, key source, counters, user slot info.	✓	✓ Protected slots	✗
Get History	Reads signing history slots.	✓	✓	✗
Write Data	Writes user data slot or custom bytes.	✓	✓	✗

Administration

Command	Description	Secure Channel	PIN / User Key	PUK
Reset	Full factory reset of the card.	✓	✗	✓
Disable Reset	Permanently disables reset capability.	✓	✗	✓

Note

For detailed APDU specifications, parameters, and response codes of each command, refer to the dedicated command pages: Setup & channel commands, Cryptographic commands, Data commands, and User key & configuration commands.