proxmark3 VS mercury-api

Compare proxmark3 vs mercury-api and see what are their differences.

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proxmark3 mercury-api
60 -
3,465 4
3.3% -
9.9 0.0
about 18 hours ago over 2 years ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only MIT License
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proxmark3

Posts with mentions or reviews of proxmark3. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-21.
  • Flipper Zero: Multi-Tool Device for Geeks
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Jan 2024
    I would check out the Proxmark3 Github repo [0]. They have a cheatsheet [1] with the basics on how to get started. I also did a talk about RFID security last year about the basics [2]

    To get started, the basics are: low freq (LF) is usually around 125khz and is rarely encrypted (HID Prox is the most common in the US). The data is often encoded in Wiegand format for access control systems (something to keep in mind when reading the raw data).

    High freq (HF) (aka NFC) is ~13Mhz and is readable by most Android phones with NFC. Not all tag data can be read however. HF cards support a lot of different options including data storage (normally in a block layout with permissions to read and write depending on keys) and encryption (iCLASS and SEOS being the HID offerings and very common). Some can be cloned (like hotel cards) while others (like SEOS) require a downgrade attack to work correctly (SEOS -> normal SEOS reader -> Weigand data -> older style card like HID Prox).

    [0] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3

    [1] https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/d...

    [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKOAywZqisc

  • Proxmark3 Unleashes 'Faraday': A Leap Forward
    1 project | /r/proxmark3 | 29 Nov 2023
  • Announcing 'Raccoon' - The Latest Proxmark3 Release!
    1 project | /r/proxmark3 | 11 Sep 2023
    🔗 https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/releases/tag/v4.17140
  • vending machine nfc
    2 projects | /r/hacking | 4 Jul 2023
  • Help with dumping Mifaire Classic 1k (Hilton) on Proxmark3
    1 project | /r/DangerousThings | 29 Jun 2023
    After pulling and compiling a newer proxmark3 generic firmware from the RfidResearchGroup repo I got farther but now have a new message I've not found much about with static nonces. https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/
  • Unknown USB Device on Proxmark3 Easy
    2 projects | /r/proxmark3 | 24 Jun 2023
    you could use linux (ubuntu) https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/doc/md/Installation_Instructions/Linux-Installation-Instructions.md
  • Is it possible to copy an iClass card into a MiFare 1k card?
    1 project | /r/proxmark3 | 10 Jun 2023
    You will have to do the leg word, but this is a starting point: https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3/blob/master/client/luascripts/hf_mf_sim_hid.lua
  • Question about sector 0 block 0
    1 project | /r/RFID | 27 May 2023
  • On-site Encrypted Access Control System?
    1 project | /r/accesscontrol | 21 May 2023
    Grab yourself a Proxmark3, read the instructions here, and you can extract your iClass elite key in a few seconds. You can pick up a PM3 easy for a few bucks.
  • Dangerous Things guide, errors during compile
    1 project | /r/proxmark3 | 3 May 2023
    I cloned whatever the latest commit was at https://github.com/RfidResearchGroup/proxmark3, which is what the guide on dangerous things suggests (where I bought my PM).

mercury-api

Posts with mentions or reviews of mercury-api. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proxmark3 and mercury-api you can also consider the following projects:

flipperzero-firmware - Flipper Zero firmware source code

hArduino - Control your Arduino board from Haskell, using the Firmata protocol

ChameleonMini - The ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator compliant to NFC. The ChameleonMini was first developed by KAOS. This is NOT the official repo for KAOS's ChameleonMini. For further information see the Getting Started Page

usb - Communicate with USB devices

miLazyCracker - Mifare Classic Plus - Hardnested Attack Implementation for SCL3711 LibNFC USB reader

clash-ghc - Haskell to VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog compiler

ChameleonMini - The ChameleonMini is a versatile contactless smartcard emulator compliant to NFC. The ChameleonMini was developed by https://kasper-oswald.de. The device is available at https://shop.kasper.it. For further information see the Getting Started Page https://rawgit.com/emsec/ChameleonMini/master/Doc/Doxygen/html/_page__getting_started.html or the Wiki tab above.

RetroESP32 - Retro ESP32 is a turbo charged Odroid Go Launcher, Emulator and ROM Manager

ProxSpace - Proxmark III develoment environment for Windows

verismith - Verilog Fuzzer to test the major simulators and sythesisers by generating random, valid Verilog.

libnfc - Platform independent Near Field Communication (NFC) library

streamdeck - Control library for the Elgato Stream Deck