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Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

May 6, 2014

Host Card Emulation

You’ve probably heard a lot on HCE — Host Card Emulation. Mobile industry had a great welcome on HCE, since contactless will become a software layer and get rid of hardware dependency. Actually every stakeholder in the NFC ecosystem except the SIM card vendors was thrilled.

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Nov 15, 2009

my-d move from Infineon against NXP’s Mifare Ultralight

Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Apr 1, 2011

Mifare emulation

Mifare is definitely the most used contactless chip in the world. I’ve already covered main topics on Mifare on my previous posts. You can find it everywhere; it has been used billions of times, hacked, cloned and it is still the most popular chip in the world.

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Nov 2, 2009

Mifare classic the legend

It’s quite common nowadays to talk about security leaks of mifare classic chips. It’s easy to “hack” the chip, clone it, read the contents of it without knowing the keys, and so on; the list goes on like this. Even the license holder NXP is recommending to migrate to mifare plus…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Oct 26, 2009

SIM-Centric or not?

According to the post on NFCNews, Nokia release its first NFC handset which holds the NFC application on the SIM card, rather than the handset itself.

Well, let’s go through the concepts first. We can say that the heart of an NFC system is the secure element. Secure…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Jun 30, 2010

EMVCo released handset requirements for contactless mobile payment

By maintaining the specifications of the banking card applications, EMVCo has a huge effect on banking card business. Visa and MasterCard developed their own implementations (VSDC and M/Chip respectively) based on…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Jan 30, 2011

NFC : What is it and what is not?

Since NFC related news are all around the blogosphere, (and partly in mainstream media) I would like to make some clearance on the subject.

First; what is NFC? NFC simply stands for Near Field Communications. It is a set of standards for…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Aug 11, 2010

NFC based check in process work flow

I have been on my summer vacation with my family and I had some thoughts on a contactless based check in service while waiting at the check in desk. I developed a process in my mind and after returning back, I bumped into a great article NFC — the future of the…

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Apr 28, 2010

Mifare Plus, a migration chip to more secure times

After the infamous Mifare hack, there’s been a lot of talk on Mifare Classic chips. Some governments even issued laws for banning Mifare Classic in the future for using some specific purposes.

Burak Ilgıcıoğlu in Contactless World

Dec 28, 2014

Cloud vs Payment

With the introduction of Apple Pay -and HCE before that, we started hearing about cloud payments. My initial reaction to cloud payment was “what kind of payment isn’t already in the cloud?”

In generic terms, cloud refers to data and applications that are not stored…

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