DesfireFire Personalization, Authentication

[onyekachi]

DesfireFire Personalization, Authentication
I have been studying the SDK (lite) and trying to make sense of the APIs. Below are functions API for DesFire. I am trying to understand the sequence of formatting, personalizing and writing and writing the cards.

I have listed methods in the order I believe is how a new virgin cards is used. Please validate my sequence if it makes sense

I have also labeled the function arguments names to match what I believe they arguments actually are; for example, I believe the Master Keys in all the functions (assuming your working on the same card ) are the same Masterkey. Please validate my thoughts because, in the example provided in the SDK document, the Master Keys are called

mykey

in format and personalize function.

masterkey

in updateApplicationMasterKey, and authenticate function, oldKey and newKey respectively in updatePICCMasterKey.

My thinking is that they are the same piccmasterkey and appKey (assuming the same card )

This is my understand of sequence of processing for a new Virgin DesFire card - Does this make sense?
1. Formatted – the card needs to be initialized by formatting the cards

[mifaresdk]

Hi Onyekachi,

Please have a look to this post.

The MIFARE Team

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