3.1 Software Installation

This section explains the manual installation process for setting up the M-HSM server.

One of the supported operating systems must be installed with all the security and stability updates applied.

  1. Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package (x64) available from Microsoft.
  2. Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 (x64) available from Microsoft.
  3. .NET Framework 4.0 or up available from Microsoft.
  4. FTP Server (for example, FileZilla).
  5. Java Runtime 2 32-bit available from Oracle.
  6. nShield Security World Software (coming with the HSM modules or can be requested from nCipher support):
    • For Windows 7 x64 Pro and Windows 8.1 x64 please use version 11.70.00.
    • For Windows 10 x64 please use version 12.50.4 with Compatibility Package v 1.0.0.
    • The installation disk contains a folder with documentation in PDF format.
    • Installation of SNMP client can be ignored as the software for this implementation does not use it.