Reverse engineering a car key fob signal

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  • gr-keyfob

    Transceiver for Hella wireless car key fobs.

  • rtl_433

    Program to decode radio transmissions from devices on the ISM bands (and other frequencies)

  • And there's a multiformat receiver block too: https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433

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  • opensesame

    OpenSesame attacks wireless garages and can open most fixed-code garages and gates in seconds using a Mattel toy

  • Samy Kumar did a project about 10 years back, where he worked out how to brute force a 12 bit garage door code in under 10 seconds, using a childs toy: http://samy.pl/opensesame/

    My garage door opener uses a 12 but dip switch config (and my last place used an 8 dip switch config, and I'm pretty sure still does).

    Re reading that OpenSesame post was fun. It reminded me of a few names I need to go find out what they're up to these days (Travis Goodspeed and Michael Ossmann are names I remember seeing doing/writing-up some really cool stuff), and that the Mattel IM-ME toy he was using uses that same CC1110 "sub gHz"

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