---
name: "muscleTool"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "muscletools"
version: "2.1.1-1"
release: "Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/muscleTool"
---

# muscleTool(1)

Program to manage and personalize your MuscleCard smartcards

## NAME

muscleTool - Program to manage and personalize your MuscleCard smartcards

## SYNOPSIS

**muscleTool \[-d\]**\

## OPTIONS

- **-d**

  Enables libmusclecard debugging.

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **muscleTool** command.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

**muscletools** is a program that manage and personalize your MuscleCard smart cards.

Supported commands are:

\- Object related functions

-

  **create** *\[id\] \[size\]* Create an object

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  **delete** *\[id\]* Delete an object

-

  **write** *\[file\] \[id\]* Write from file to object

-

  **read** *\[id\] \[file\]* Read from object to file

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  **move** *\[id\] \[newid\]* Rename an object

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  **changeacl** *\[id\]* Change the ACL of an object

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  **list** List objects on token

\- PIN related functions

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  **verify** *\[pinnumber\]* Verify a PIN

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  **makepin** *\[number\] \[value\] \[unblkvalue\]* Create a PIN

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  **changepin** *\[pinnumber\] \[oldvalue\] \[newvalue\]* Change a PIN

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  **unblock** *\[pinnumber\]* Unblock a PIN

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  **deleteid** *\[IDnumber\]* Delete an ID

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  **listpins** List the PINs

\- Key related functions

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  **listkeys** List the keys

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  **exportkey** *\[keynumber\] \[file\]* Export a key

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  **importkey** *\[pinnumber\] \[file\]* Import a key

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  **genkeys** *\[algorithm\] \[keysize\]* Generate keys

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  **deletekey** *\[keynumber\]* Delete a key

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  **movekey** *\[keynumber\] \[newkeynumber\]* Renumbers a key

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  **changekeyacl** *\[keynumber\]* Change the ACL of a key

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  **filecrypt** *\[keynum\] \[infile\] \[outfile\]* Perform a cipher operation on infile and stores result in outfile

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  **crypt** *\[keynum\]* Perform a cipher operation on user supplied string

\- General functions

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  **format** *\[tokennumber\]* Format the token

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  **tokens** Lists tokens available

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  **connect** *\[tokennumber\]* Connect to a token

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  **resume** Get the token's capabilities\
    crypt     - Lists available crypto algorithms\
    rsa       - Lists RSA capabilities\
    dsa       - Lists DSA capabilities\
    des       - Lists DES capabilities\
    3des      - Lists 3DES capabilities\
    aes       - Lists AES capabilities\
    ec        - Lists EC capabilities\
    keys      - Lists Key capabilities\
    pins      - Lists PIN capabilities\
    objects   - Lists Object capabilities

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  **release** Release a token

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  **status** Gets the token's status

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  **challenge** Gets a random number

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  **logout** Logs out AUT

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  **version** Print the version

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  **exit** Exits this program

## SEE ALSO

[**xcard**(1)](/xcard/1.md).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Ludovic Rousseau \<rousseau@debian.org\>, and updated by Karsten Ohme \<k\_o\_@users.sourceforge.net\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).