MIFARE® is NXP’s well-known brand for a wide range of contactless IC products with a typical read/write distance of 10 cm (4 inches). With more than 12 billion contactless and dual interface IC’s sold, their products are used in more than 40 different applications worldwide. Based on open global standards for both RF interface and cryptographic methods, the MIFARE DESFire product family provides highly secure microcontroller-based ICs. Its name DESFire references the use of DES, 2K3DES, 3K3DES and AES hardware cryptographic engines for securing transmission data.