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How Do You Determine Card Formats Of Existing Cards?

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Jul 11, 2018

I am curious how to determine the card format structure of existing customer cards with no prior knowledge of bit length and or format. Is there an article or utility or tool that can help with this or some sort of process to figure this out?

We run into this sometimes on cutovers of existing card access systems and have been fortunate in figuring out the format, usually by picking and testing existing templates from the system we are installing. Some systems require you to build the template yourself and i am not sure how one determines which parameters to configure or how to find those parameters.

 

U
Undisclosed #2
Jul 11, 2018

I use a proxmark3 and chameleon for our test bench:

Rysc Corp Products

The Chameleon Project

H10301 26b cards are the easiest to decode, start with those to get the basics. There are plenty of guides online for different card technologies.

Certain access panels such as iStar Ultra, you can view the card read in the panel's webpage. From there you take the binary or hexadecimal number into any calculator and find your facility code and card number.

Rapid tables Binary to Decimal Converter

Good Luck!

 

 

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UI
Undisclosed Integrator #1
Jul 12, 2018

Excellent information, Thank you!

UI
Undisclosed Integrator #4
Jul 12, 2018

I love Rysc, they are freaking awesome.

I also love my HackRF One, so that may have something to do with it.

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U
Undisclosed #3
Jul 12, 2018
IPVMU Certified

Look at the big brain on Brian ;)

UE
Undisclosed End User #5
Mar 11, 2020

I would use as a starting point.
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