libfreefare ☆
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Description:
API for MIFARE card manipulations
Type: Formula  |  Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025
Links: Homepage  |  formulae.brew.sh
Category: Developer tools
Tags: nfc mifare security hardware c-library
Install: brew install libfreefare
About:
Libfreefare is a C library designed to provide a high-level API for interacting with MIFARE Classic, Plus, and DESFire cards. It simplifies complex command sequences into easy-to-use functions for reading and writing data. This enables developers to rapidly build applications for secure access control and other NFC-based solutions.
Key Features:
  • Support for MIFARE Classic, Plus, and DESFire
  • High-level C API for complex card operations
  • Integration with libnfc for hardware communication
  • Open source and cross-platform
Use Cases:
  • Developing custom access control systems
  • Reading and writing data to NFC tags
  • Building public transit or payment card applications
Alternatives:
  • libnfc – Libnfc provides low-level hardware communication, whereas Libfreefare offers high-level abstractions specifically for MIFARE cards.
Version History
Detected Version Rev Change Commit
Sep 14, 2025 3:17am 4 VERSION_BUMP b36f7050
Sep 13, 2024 2:16pm 4 VERSION_BUMP 707388f9
Sep 5, 2024 9:37am 4 VERSION_BUMP 4c19a7b7
Dec 1, 2022 1:09pm 3 VERSION_BUMP ea7179a8
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