The contactless technology mifare is one of the first contactless chip products, well known and widespread. Mifare started prior to any standardization efforts in this area. Therefore the physical transmission, the protocol and the application (file structure) on the card was called mifare. Mifare is now compliant to the ISO 14443 A standard.
mifare
mifare family
mifare Standard (Classic) with 1k or 4k memory
mifare PRO and PROX are Dual Interface Chips, they can be connected through their contacts as well as their contactless interface and have cryptoprocessors for 3DES and RSA.
mifare Ultralight is the simplest and low cost mifare variant
mifare DESFire newest mifare card with 3DES
mifare standard 1k characteristics
distance
up to 10 cm - depending on antenna geometry
frequency
13,56 MHz
data transfer
106 kbit/s
data retention
10 years
write endurance
100.000
security
mutual three pass authentication unique serial number for each card 2 key protects access to EEPROM data encryption on RF-channel