The MIFARE® DESFire family consists of various contactless ICs and are suited for solution developers and system operators building reliable, interoperable and scalable contactless solutions. It targets multi-application smart card solutions in identity, access, loyalty and micro-payment applications as well as in transport schemes. MIFARE DESFire products fulfill the requirements for fast and highly secure data transmission, flexible memory organization and is interoperable with existing contactless infrastructures.
the Desfire Technology was launched by NXP in 2002 and evolved in 2008 for EV1 generation and then for EV2 generation in 2018. As the growing demand for better performance and higher security was raised, the EV3 latest generation was launched in mid 2020.
The MIFARE DESFire EV3 is Common Criteria EAL5+ security certified which is the same security certification level as demanded for smart card IC products used e.g. for banking cards or electronic passports. It fully complies with the requirements for fast and highly secure data transmission and flexible application management. This makes it the ideal product for service providers and service operators who want to offer an easy, convenient and secure access to a wide variety of different services.
MIFARE DESFire EV3 is based on global open standards for both air interface and cryptographic methods. It is compliant to all levels of ISO/IEC 14443A and supports optional ISO/IEC 7816-4 commands (APDU and file structure supported) and is fully interoperable with existing NFC reader for MIFARE infrastructure.
Featuring an on-chip backup management system and the mutual three-pass authentication, a MIFARE DESFire EV3 card can hold as many applications as the memory can accommodate. Each application can hold up to 32 files with various data configurations. The size of each file is defined at the moment of its creation, making MIFARE DESFire EV3 a truly flexible and convenient product. An automatic anti-tear mechanism is available for all file types, guaranteeing transaction-oriented data integrity.
The main characteristics of this device are denoted by its name “DESFire”: DES indicates the high level of security using a 3DES or AES hardware cryptographic engine for confidentiality and integrity protection of the transmission data. Fire indicates its outstanding position as a Fast, Innovative, Reliable and secure IC in the contactless proximity transaction market.
MIFARE DESFire EV3 delivers the perfect balance of speed, performance and cost efficiency. Its open concept allows seamless future integration of other ticketing media such as smart paper tickets and banking convergence cards based on Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. MIFARE DESFire EV3 is your ticket to secure contactless systems worldwide.
Computer Guard offers a full range of Desfire Smart Cards from EV1 to EV3 we can either provide blanked or fully encoded and personalized cards.
Computer Guard have developed wide capabilities in Desfire encoding solution, offering independent Key Ceremony tools, Keys and/or Biometric templates enrollment solution for multiplications, either by a desktop reader stand or as part of a full smart card personalization process with Card Printer and encoder system.
DESFire’s are available in PVC and Composite PET/PVC card construction, the MIFARE DESFire EV3 2K card is exceptionally durable and can accept an embeddable SAM card for logical access and biometric ID systems.
