Desfire card library for Python

Project still ongoing, use it with caution!

• Compatible with all readers supported by pySCARD

• Pure python implementation

• One of the few DESFire libraries that supports ALL (DES,2DES,3DES,AES) authentication types

• Enumeration of the card gives an overlook on how the card is structured

• Functions implement:

  • authenticate
  • getApplicationIDs
  • getKeySetting
  • getCardVersion
  • formatCard
  • selectApplication
  • createApplication
  • deleteApplication
  • getFileIDs
  • getFileSettings
  • readFileData
  • writeFileData
  • deleteFile
  • createStdDataFile
  • getKeyVersion
  • changeKeySettings
  • changeKey

• Can’t read data from certain file types

• Some commands are missing (since there is no full documentation available)

Patrick Weber

The codebase of this project was based on two major projects:

who created a completely working DESFireEV1 library. (this module is based 90% of his work!)

URL: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1096861/DIY-electronic-RFID-Door-Lock-with-Battery-Backup

who try to implement the code from Elmue written in C to Python. (this module is based 9% of this work)

Url: https://github.com/skelsec/pydesfire

who worte the original desfire module for python.

URL: https://github.com/miohtama/desfire/