RFdump is a software created by Lukas Grunwald and Christian Bottger for security auditing

RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electroma ...

tags. It is periodically updated to support emerging RFID standards such as e-passport and Mifare encryption that are currently found on many pay as you go systems. RFDump is a back-end GPL tool to directly inter-operate with any

reader to make the contents stored on RFID tags accessible. The tool reads an RFID tag's meta information: tag ID, tag type, manufacturer etc. The user data of a tag can be displayed and modified using either a

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feature demonstrates how simple it is to abuse RFID technology, such as company's using it to spy on consumers. RFDump works with the ACG Multi-Tag Reader or similar card reader hardware. RFDump features ( Gtk application): * Runs on

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* Supports ACGs

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/CF Multi-Tag Readers * Decodes the tag type, tag ID and manufacturer * Displays tag memory in hex and ASCII encoding * Allows to write memory using hex or ASCII editor * Full

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type A/B support * Support for Mifare sector keys * Cookie feature using arbitrary cookie ID and automatically incrementing counter * Brute-force cracking of access control cards (sector keys) * Audit of encrypted RFID tags check for default shipping keys * Save and restore of Mifare cards including sector keys * Multi

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rate reader support; RFDump can set baud rate * Scan option * Configuration menus Supported Tag Types: * ISO/IEC 15693: Tag-it ISO, My-d, I-Code SLI, LRI512, TempSense *

type A: Mifare Standard(1,2), Mifare UltraLight(1,2) * ISO/IEC 14443 type B: SR176(1,2) * Tag-it * I-Code * EM4002 * EM4005 * EM4050 * HITAG1 * HITAG2 * Q5 * TIRIS

References

MudSplatter, Official site of RFDUMP. Mar 29, 2009David Reid, ''ePassports 'at risk' from cloning''. BBC Online, Dec 15, 2006
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