Mifare Standards

Mifare is a term for NXP semiconductors that are used under the ISO standard 14443 for Type-A 13.56 MHz contactless smart cards or proximity cards.

ISO 14443 also has 4 sub parts that differentiated as per aspect of the some interface

ISO 14443-1:2000 Physical characteristics

ISO 14443-2:2001 Radio frequency power and signal interface

ISO 14443-3:2001 Initialization and anti-collision

ISO 14443-4:2001 Transmission protocol

Following is the list overview of mifare smartcard ICs standards.

MIFARE Ultralight

This can be easily used as disposable public transport tickets. This only has a unique 7 byte serial number with no memory for user data storage.

MIFARE Ultralight C

This is same as mifare ultralight but with the option of open cryptography and anti-cloning functionality.

MIFARE Classic 1K

This is mostly used for access management applications. This has a unique serial number either 4 Byte or 7 Byte along with 1 kbyte EEPROM out of which 768 Bytes are available.

MIFARE Classic 4K

Another version of mifare classic with 4 kbyte EEPROM out of which 3480 Bytes are available.

MIFARE Plus

Another version of mifare classic that comes with more security. This has 2 or 4-KBEEPROM with 2 AES keys (2 x 128 bit sector)

MIFARE DESFire EV1

This is fully compient with 14443 A 1-4. This has fast programming feature with 2 Kbytes, 4 Kbytes and 8 Kbytes EEPROM, and crypto algorithms i.e. DES, 3DES, 3KDES and AES.