NAME

nfc-anticol - Demonstration of NFC anti-collision command line tool based on libnfc

SYNOPSIS

nfc-anticol

DESCRIPTION

nfc-anticol is an anti-collision demonstration tool for ISO/IEC 14443-A tags, performed by custom constructed frames. The first frame must be a short frame which is only 7 bits long. Commercial SDK's often don't support a feature to send frames that are not a multiple of 8 bits (1 byte) long. This makes it impossible to do the anti-collision yourself. The developer has to rely on closed proprietary software and should hope it does not contain vulnerabilities during the anti-collision phase. Performing the anti-collision using custom frames could protect against a malicious tag that, for example, violates the standard by sending frames with unsupported lengths. Note that this is only a demonstration tool, which can not handle multiple tags as real life anti-collisions with multiple tags generate "messy" bits which are neither 0 nor 1.

BUGS

Please report any bugs on the libnfc issue tracker at:
http://code.google.com/p/libnfc/issues

LICENCE

libnfc is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), version 3.
libnfc-utils and libnfc-examples are covered by the the BSD 2-Clause license.

AUTHORS

Roel Verdult <roel@libnfc.org>

This manual page was written by Romuald Conty <romuald@libnfc.org>. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).