http://www.openpcd.org/ Latest News en http://www.openpcd.org/fileadmin/openpcd/images/opcd_search.gif http://www.openpcd.org/ 16 16 Latest News TYPO3 - get.content.right http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:41:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5fbeb299eec.0.html Henryk Plötz gives a very good explanation about RFID functions and the use of OpenPCD and OpenPICC device to get detailed insights. His main target is an analysis about Mifare Classic protocol implementation and its weak points. The Diploma Thesis is available (only in german) at Humboldt University, Berlin: SAR-PR-2008-21. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:41:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5628fc2f216.0.html There will be an introduction about OpenPCD at this years FOSSConf in Chennai India. Kushal Das will explain and demonstrate the OpenPCD function and some basic application written with it. Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:48:00 +0100 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M52a725f11d2.0.html On Thursday, 31st May 2007 Kushal Das will talk about OpenPCD at the Linuxtag in Berlin (Berlin Expo Center, Saal 5). The presentation will introduce and explain the OpenPCD with some basic application can be written with it. It will also demo the python bindings for the project. Mon, 21 May 2007 09:30:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5927aa53abc.0.html Kushal Das maintains a great ready build RPM package for the Fedora Core 6 distribution. librfid is a Free Software RFID library. It implements the PCD (reader) side protocol stack of ISO 14443 A, ISO 14443 B, ISO 15693, Mifare Ultralight and Mifare Classic. Support for iCODE and other 13.56MHz based transponders is planned. The RPM package allows you to use the reader instantly on a Fedory Core 6 based system by issuing: #yum install librfid #yum install librfid-devel On you can also find some great practical applications for the OpenPCD reader - for example a application that automatically locs and unlocks your KDE desktop while a particular RFID card is in the proximity of the OpenPCD reader. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:11:00 +0100 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M514a73ac1ee.0.html We are very proud to announce our participation at this years FOSS.IN in Bangalore, India. There will be a one hour presentation about OpenPCD and its counterpart OpenPICC. This includes an introduction and demonstration of both hardware and software design. About FOSS.IN: FOSS.IN is one of the world's largest and most focussed FOSS events, held annually in India. Over the years, it has attracted thousands of participants, and the speaker roster reads like a "Who is Who" of FOSS contributors from across the world. FOSS.IN/2006 will be held on November 24-26, 2006, at National Science Symposium Centre of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:28:00 +0100 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M514455fbef6.0.html Due to unexpected high demand from users of closed source operating systems our webshop now supports Microsoft(TM) Internet Explorer. product Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:13:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5a925175559.0.html RFID READER DESIGN AVAILABLE UNDER FREE SOFTWARE / OPEN SOURCE LICENSE BERLIN, Germany - Sep. 25, 2005 -- Today, the OpenPCD.org project announces the availability of the worlds first 13.56MHz RFID reader featuring a free hardware design and entirely Free Software for firmware and drivers. OpenPCD supports many popular 13.56MHz based RFID standards such as ISO 14443 type A and B, ISO 15693 and Philips(R) Mifare(TM), among others. It interfaces with a host PC using USB. As opposed to existing RFID reader vendors in the market, OpenPCD.org gives full access to all its hardware and software design to anyone, for free. As another major difference to available off-the-shelf RFID readers, OpenPCD encourages RFID protocol related security research, by providing hardware and software interfaces for various intermediate analog and digital signals. "Coming from a communications security analyst background, we have wanted a flexible RFID reader for many years. A reader that provides us with full hardware control, the ability to alter its firmware, to look at raw demodulated data and to modulate arbitrary bitpatterns on the RF interface is the ideal tool. Since such a product was not available on the market, we had to build it ourself." says Harald Welte, lead software architect of OpenPCD.org OpenPCD contains a 48MHz ARM7TDMI based microcontroller from the Atmel SAM7 series. This controller provides enough spare processing power and memory resources next to the RFID stack and thus enables users to run their own additional application-specific program code in it. Software development for the OpenPCD project is done by exclusively using Free Software programs, such as GNU GCC for ARM, GNU binutils and sam7utils. There is no need to obtain license of any proprietary development tools. The OpenPCD hardware schematics and gerber files for the PCB are available under a Creative Commons share-alike attribution license. The reader firmware and Linux host software drivers are made available as Free Software under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Both Licenses allow anyone to build products based on the existing hardware design and software, provided that the designs and software of any modified versions of it will also again be released under the same license. Vendors who are interested in building proprietary products based on OpenPCD technology, without releasing their modifications to the public, can obtain a separate license. With the first units already shipped to customers, the team behind OpenPCD is meanwhile working on their next project, called OpenPICC. OpenPICC is a simulator for 13.56MHz based RFID transponders and even Smartcards with RF interface. Like OpenPCD, OpenPICC will be 100% Free Hardware and Free Software. About openpcd.org openpcd.org is a joint project of hmw-consulting.de an bitmanufaktur.de, two Berlin-based IT consulting and development businesses. About hmw-consulting.de hmw-consulting.de is the consulting business of long-term Free Softwre author Harald Welte. It specializes in consulting and development in the area of Linux kernel development, embedded Linux and network security. Mr. Welte is an active Linux Kernel developer, has founded a number of Free Software projects and serves as core team member of the netfilter/iptables project, About bitmanufaktur.de bitmanufaktur IT Solutions is a Berlin based company run by Milosch Meriac. It offers consulting and development services with a broad range in software engineering and hardware development. The main focus is on deeply embedded systems, hardware development, embedded Linux, realtime development, IT security and reverse engineering. Mr. Meriac was part of the coreteam at the Xbox Linux project which did the port of GNU/Linux to the popular Xbox game console. For more information on the project, as well as the hardware design and software, please see http://openpcd.org press Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:02:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5eb4a871118.0.html Our online shop now allows preorders of the new OpenPCD reader batch. The new production batch will be available in the second week of october. product Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:13:00 +0200 http://www.openpcd.org/News-articles.articles+M5486dc424f0.0.html This reader design is particularly interesting for everyone interested in RFID protocols and security, because of its many interfaces. You can modulate arbitrary waveforms onto the 13.56MHz carrier by bypassing the RC632 modulator/encoder and using the PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) or SSC (Synchronous Serial Controller) of the AT91SAM7 micro-controller. On the RX side, you can also bypass the RC632 decoder and use the SSC to sample arbitrary data, provided it is on a ISO-ocnformant sub-carrier frequency. Many of the internal signals can be routed to U.FL connectors on the PCB, e.g. if you want to look at certain intermediate signals on an oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer or even sample it with some high-speed ADC like the USRP SDR. So far we have only produced five readers of this latest design. But for those of you not interested in re-building it from scratch, we will be offering the ready-built reader in a web store soon. release Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:07:00 +0200