mifare classic

MIFARE DES FIRE CARD

• MIFARE is the NXP Semiconductors-owned trademark of aseries of chips widely used in contact less smart cards and proximity cards.
  
• MIFARE products are embodied in contact less and contact smart cards, smart paper tickets, wearables and phones.
  
• The MIFARE brand name (derived from the term MIKRON FARE Collection and created by the company MIKRON) covers four families of contactless cards:

MIFAREDES Fire family

The MIFARE DES Fire (MF3ICD40) was introduced in 2002 and is based on a core similar to Smart MX,with more hardware and software security features than MIFARE Classic. It comes pre-programmed with the general purpose MIFAREDES Fire operating system which offers a simple directory structure and files. They are sold in four variants: One with Triple-DES only and 4 kiB of storage, and three with AES (2, 4, or 8 kiB; see MIFAREDES Fire EV1). The AES variants have additional security features;e.g., CMAC. MIFARE DES Fire uses a protocol compliant with ISO/IEC 14443-4.[9] The contact less IC is based on an 8051processor with 3DES/AES cryptographic accelerator, making very fast transactions possible.

The maximal read/write distance between card and reader is 10centimetres (3.9 in), but actual distance depends on the field power generated by the reader and its antenna size.

In 2010, NXP announced the discontinuation of the MIFARE DES Fire (MF3ICD40) after it had introduced its successor MIFARE DESFire EV1 (MF3ICD41) in late2008. In October 2011 researchers of Ruhr University Bochum [10] announced that they had broken the security of MIFAREDES Fire (MF3ICD40), which was acknowledged by NXP[11] (see MIFAREDES Fire attacks).

MIFARE DESFireEV1

New evolution of MIFARE DES Fire contact less IC, broadly backwards compatible. Available with 2 kiB,4 kiB, and 8 kiB non-volatile memory. Other features include:[12]

MIFARE DES  Fire EV1 was publicly announced in November2006.[citation needed]

Key applications:

MIFARE DESFireEV2

The latest evolution of the MIFAREDES Fire contact less IC family, broadly backwards compatible.[13] New features include:

MIFARE DES Fire EV2 was publicly announced in March 2016 at the IT-TRANS event in Karlsruhe, Germany.