Archive for the ‘ transport ticketing ’ Category
Mifare emulation has been around for some years. Mifare emulation simply refers to an application running on a chip card operating system. The application emulates the native mifare chip and responds the mifare readers as if it is a mifare chip. Of course there are some considerations when implementing a mifare emulation. First of all, [ READ MORE ]
ACS announced its new dual interface smart card ACOS7. ACS is a Hong Kong based company working on smart cards and readers. Their product portfolio is quite strong, they almost have everything that you can imagine. I especially love the card readers of ACS. ACOS7 seems an addition to their ACOS family optimised for transportation. It [ READ MORE ]
Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto support, but have OTP (one time programmable) memory area which is perfect for enabling the restriction the limited use [ READ MORE ]
It’s quite common nowadays to talk about security leaks of mifare classic chips. It’s easy to “hack” the chip, clone it, read the contents of it without knowing the keys, and so on; the list goes on like this. Even the license holder NXP is recommending to migrate to mifare plus. Well not good for [ READ MORE ]
According to the post at NFC News, ASK released a contactless reader device for home use. Reader is connected via USB port and is compatible with all popular contactless card types. Contactless readers attached to PC over USB port has been available in the market for a long time. Aiming the end users who has a [ READ MORE ]
Access control applications and transportation systems were the “killer applications” that caused the boom in the contactless cards. Access control systems are generally do not require anything more than a unique id, but transportation systems are more complex. Speaking generally, two products dominate the contactless transportation installations: NXP’s mifare family and the Calypso family, which are [ READ MORE ]