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NFC vs Mifare
Yes, both are working on 13.56MHz and both are using NFC and no difference in the communication/protocol level. The real difference is on the application side - Mifare is a proprietary technology by NXP...
smartcard / reader handshake
Each application on the card will have different Application life cycles. Most of the applications will have a personalization phase and an operational phase. Application-specific keys and application...
Chip for payments and transportation
For payment (ATM or POS) it shall be EMV chip approved by the payment schemes like VISA or Mastercard. For transportation, if you are targeting to use the same card it can be also with VISA/Mastercard...
How does smart card store keys and saves it from client applications on same memory?
The smart card chips itself designed to be tamper-proof and resist attempts to extract key data. Smart card operating system or application will generally have specific key store area in the memory with...
NFC Tags for payments
NFC tags are used for exchanging small amounts of data quickly by tapping. There are 5 types of NFC tags (type1 to 5) out of which few are rewriteable and others are not. NFC tags doesn't have capability...
EMV and NFC payments
NFC (Near Field Communication) is a short range wireless communications standard. With this, devices like smart phones, POS terminals, smartcards can communicate by being in close proximity and without...
Biometric smart cards
Yes, smart card with inbuilt biometric sensor is next trend in payment. Some organization already have solutions for this. Most of the companies using battery powered biometric sensor. But some companies...