Are "MIFARE-compatible" contactless cards not playing fair? That's what you may wonder after
@doegox spotted some odd
behavior.
Curiosity led to experiments that resulted in devising a new attack technique that uncovered some backdoors, and here we are 🙀
The RFID hacking spirit lives on!
https://blog.quarkslab.com/mifare-classic-static-encrypted-nonce-and-backdoors.html
MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant... and a few hardware backdoors
We studied the most secure static encrypted nonce variant of "MIFARE Classic compatible" cards -- meant to resist all known card-only attacks -- and developed new attacks defeating it, uncovering a hardware backdoor in the process. And that's only the beginning...