========================= MIFARE DESFire for Python

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This package provides MIFARE DESFire <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIFARE>_ native communication protocol for NFC cards.

Source code: https://github.com/miohtama/desfire

Documentation: https://desfire.readthedocs.org

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In photo: MIFARE DESFire EV1 8kB blank card with Identive CLOUD 4500 F Dual Interface Reader

Features

• Compatibile with USB-based NFC readers via PCSC interface. PCSC API is available on Linux, OSX and Windows. Linux support includes support for Raspberry Pi.

• Compatibile with Android mobile phones and their built-in NFC readers. This is done using Kivy <https://kivy.org/>_ cross application Python framework and native Android APIs via pyjnius <https://github.com/kivy/pyjnius>_ Python to Java bridging.

• Only some of the commands are implemented in the current alpha quality version, please feel free to add more.

• Compatible with Python 2 and Python 3

• Currently supports only PLAIN DESFire communication mode (see this error 6E 00 <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19589534/android-nfc-communication-with-mifare-desfire-ev1>_)

Background

The communication protocol specification is not public <http://stackoverflow.com/a/24069446/315168>. The work is based on reverse engineering existing open source DESFire projects, namely Android host card emulation for DESFire <https://github.com/jekkos/android-hce-desfire> and MIFARE SDK <https://www.mifare.net/en/products/tools/mifare-sdk/>_.

Author

Mikko Ohtamaa <https://opensourcehacker.com>_.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter_ and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage_ project template.

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