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Announce: RFIDIOt PC/SC support - new release 0.1p (July 2007)



Folks,

I'm pleased to announce that I've finally got around to releasing PC/SC support for RFIDIOt. This means you can use lower cost reader/writers that are also much easier to find (although at the moment there are limitations as to what you can do with them, so they are not a complete alternative).

So far I've only tested the Omnikey Cardman 5321, which is a 13.56MHz device, and am able to access things like e-passports, Mifare cards and ISO 15693 (commonly used in ticketing and hotel doors etc.).

No doubt there are some simple tweaks that would enable more of the other test programs to work but I felt there was enough here to get people started so didn't want to delay the release any further...

Full list of changes in this release:

v0.p
add PCSC support (http://pcsclite.alioth.debian.org/ and http://pyscard.sourceforge.net/) [hints/tips/inspiration Henryk Plötz]
  fix cardselect.py and multiselect.py to check for presence of card
  fix 'waitfor/do nothing' in RFIDIOt.py [Philippe Biondi]
  cleaner check digit calc in mrpkey.py [Philippe Biondi]
change -r to -R (reader type) to allow -r to be used for PCSC compatibility
  add speed/framesize reporting to mrpkey.py
increase MAX read chunk size to 118 in mrpkey.py (needs fixing to go up to device supported size ISO_FRAMESIZE)
  fix bit allignment issue in FDXBID encoding/decoding [Matsche]
  add global uid variable
  add locked block reporting to readmifare
  add readmifaresimple.py

Full details here:

  http://rfidiot.org

enjoy,
Adam
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