Card Technology Overview (Proximity, Smartcard Contact and contactless)

MIFARE® is a 13.56 MHz contactless technology family of microprocessors developed by Philips. MIFARE is the most common contactless chipset on the market and is used in most applications around the globe. It is an ISO 14443 product that ensures compatibility with future products. Cards can be purchased that contain memory up to 32k bits, a capacity robust enough to process the largest biometric templates while still incorporating other applications.

DESFire® is a high-end chipset in the MIFARE family that is the first chip compliant with the Government Smart Card Interoperability Specification (GSC-IS). The GSC-IS standard was created to ensure the interoperability of contactless and contact smart cards throughout the federal government.

DES Encryption is a strong cryptographic algorithm protecting classified information. It is a public algorithm determined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to be open, inexpensive, widely available and – most of all – very secure.

Triple DES is slower than regular DES but its longer key length and triple encryption process is billions of times more secure. Its advantage over other security algorithms is that it is based on the DES algorithm, making it easy to modify existing software to incorporate triple DES. Triple DES is also public with proven reliability.

my-d® is a 13.56 MHz contactless technology family of microprocessors developed by Infineon Technologies, one of the world's leading semiconductor companies. Its advanced security algorithms also make it a worldwide leader in ISO 15693 contactless technology.

iCLASS® is a proprietary, ISO 15693 compliant, 13.56 MHz contactless product line developed by HID Corporation (an industry-leading card and reader manufacturer).

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