This presentation and workshop will explore and demonstrate the (inner) workings of:

• ISO-7816 smartcards, communication protocol
  • parts of EMV and SIM standards, because both are huge as fuck
• some common hardware that is well supported under common OSes
  • PN-5xx, PC/SC-based readers and Proxmark3
• old simple low-frequency access cards
• newer, more complex high-frequency ISO 14443 cards
  • low-level ISO 14443 protocol
  • including higher-level NFC protocols like Forum Tag Type 4
• how Chinese “magic” Mifare works
  • magic backdoored/nonstandard commands
• attacks on various classes of smartcards and contactless cards

• FreakCard
• libnfc
• Proxmark3
• Presentation