Introduce Mifare® Ultralight AES

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The MIFARE Ultralight AES IC provides another degree of trust for the limited use of passes and card keys by supporting AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptographic verification. Developed as a safe, contactless alternative for conventional paper passes, magnetic strips, UPC (Universal Product Code), and QR code-based devices, the IC provides distributors with a more secure and easy-to-use way for issuing one-way and multi-use travel tickets. Concert passes, access keys, courtesy cards, etc. Also, for the hospitality sector, MIFARE Ultralight AES provides visitors with safe access to their hotel rooms and hotel facilities, including sports centres, saunas, and parking spaces.

New Developments

The MIFARE Ultralight AES have started to utilise traditional Advanced Encryption Standard, along with common criteria EAL3+ (Evaluation Assurance Level) security certificate to offer security to contactless passes that are used for a limited time, Radio-Frequency Identification guest card keys and different contactless use.

Why is it important?

As everything nowadays is connected to the Internet, security has become a vital component for several items. By using MIFARE Ultralight AES, distributors have a more safe, simple process of issuing contactless keys and passes for limited usage, consisting of RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) key cards, event passes, travel tickets and courtesy cards.

Features

Some of the critical features of MIFARE Ultralight AES are:

Privacy and ownership – A 7-byte UID (Unique Identifier) with optimal ID support to enhance privacy. Pre-programmed ECC (Elliptical Curve Cryptography)-based originality signature, and the originality signature is checked using a 128-bit originality key that is authenticated utilising Advanced Encryption Standard.
Contactless performance – ISO/IEC (International Organisation for Standardisation/International Electrotechnical Commission) 14443 A -2/-3 compatible, up to 10 cm operating distance and 106 Kbit/s data transfer speed.
Memory – It has a 144-byte EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) memory, along with 100,000 single-write operations.
Versatility – Simple design-in by utilising a similar structure of the memory, accompanied by past models of MIFARE items. It also supports versatility and streamlining integration inside the MIFARE IC family using identical Advanced Encryption Standard verification commands.

Benefits

Some of the benefits of MIFARE Ultralight AES are, first of all, the implementation of chip-level security helps to enhance privacy, comprising 7-byte Unique Identifier, as well as Random ID support. Secondly, Advanced Encryption Standard cryptography for secured verification and safe access to data with a 128-bit key length, along with an optional command counter to restrict the number of false authentication tries leading to strong visitor security, secure access to hotel rooms and preventing issuing duplicate card keys. Lastly, originality verification utilises pre-programmed, Elliptical Curve Cryptography-based originality signature, along with checking the originality of the signature with the help of a 128-bit originality key that uses Advanced Encryption Standard verification.