Slow initialization of Nitrokey HSM

Nitrokeys
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In my opinion it’s a twofold problem. I don’t see any need of preloading the keys, when initializing the token (but this is just a guess as i don’t have enough insight into the topic and probably it is needed) and the hardware seems to be a bit slow. The mentioned Yubikey maybe is faster, but is also around 10 times of the price of a Nitrokey HSM, so i think one will have to make a decision if speed is really that important.
To bring this to an end :
The solution for this particular problem is either to invest much more money or to set the OpenSC use_file_caching parameter to true (which i’m not very happy with, since it stores the plain data on the harddrive).