125 kHz RFID cards, also referred to as LF cards, are still very common. Although I have no hard numbers to back this up I'd venture to guess that HID Prox cards are still the most widely deployed access control card in the US and these cards are 125 kHz cards. The only thing that might throw this off is all US government organizations have migrated to 13.56 MHz cards.
In the 125 kHz range there are three types of RFID you'll commonly find used by access control systems. They are HID Prox, Indala and EM4100 (EM). From what I've been able to research the device listed can only clone cards that use the EM4100 chip. EM cards tend to be used in small/off label access control systems. I've mainly seen EM cards used at gyms and parking garages. I've seen them vary rarely used for access control in an office environment. So depending on what you want to do with it it might have limited usefulness. As part of an ongoing research project I'll probably be order the device listed below as well as the reader, cards, panel, etc to build an access control system. Once all that stuff arrives I can confirm the devices capabilities. In October I'm doing a presentation called Access Control Cards: The Good, The Bad and The Clonable at the Cleveland Information Security Summit. After this talk I'll be doing some more blog posts and white papers on what I discovered and will be getting into more depth on both 125 kHz and 13.56 MHz cards. Cheers, Matt Adrian Crenshaw wrote: > I was under he impression from a freind of mine that 125KHz was > mostly for hobbiest stuff. Anyone know? One of the reviewers said his > parking pass was a 125KHz. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Just found this standalone 125KHz RFID card cloner, I wondered if > anyone had seen one of these or if they thought it was worth the $66. > > http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.17230 > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
