DIY RFID E-Lock Upgraded to Work with Desfire EV1 Cards, Library Compatible for Teensy/Arduino
Forums user Elmue’s already-awesome DIY RFID e-lock was recently upgraded to be compatible with Desfire EV1 cards, which required a complete reverse-engineer of their source code. As Elmue explains,
The difficult part is not the DES / AES encryption itself. The difficult thing is that NXP does not publish the documentation for these cards. You have to make a Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with them and promise that you will not give their holy documentation to anybody else. But this NDA is only made with companies. And in internet you find only very very sparse information about Desfire EV1.
As I don’t have that documentation I had to study the source code of some open source projects on Github, and in an endless try and error write my code for Teensy. My project is the first code that has ever been written for the Arduino family of boards! (The Adafruit library supports only Mifare Classic cards which are completely obsolete because they have been cracked in 2008 and can be cloned in a few seconds.)
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