Mifare Classic is arguably the most widely deployed type of 'secure' RFID tags. However, it's security thus far been mostly based on security by obscurity. This presentation will give some results on the factual security of Mifare Classic that were obtained by hardware reverse engineering on the chip, combined with protocol analysis on the radio transmissions.

Henryk Plötz is a student of computer sciences at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, currently writing his diploma thesis on the subject of Mifare Classic security. He is also writing firmware for ISO 14443-A --and ultimately Mifare Classic-- support for the OpenPICC project, which is an open source and open hardware RFID emulator.

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