ViVOpay 3000

What is it? It's a RFID reader, we bought it somewhere on ebay and now we want to reverse is and see if we can do something with it.

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Details

• Works on 12 volt
• On boot "beeps"
• Reads RFID Mifair classic out of the box, no idea what and how
• Has on the back: power, RJ45 port (9volt?), "kinda" PS/2 port
• On PCB there are some connectors
• Did found a comport chip and 2 Philips chips.

Todo

• Find the comport and see what it does

Serial/RJ45

• Obviously not a network connection ;-)
• The Ethernet connector seems to be an kind of serial connection, the 1st pin is the GND en the 8th pin is somekind of data line
• The data captured looks a lot like the usage of the ISO/IEC 7813, which is used for standarisation on magnetic stripe cards i.e. creditcards.
• Colourcoding
  • Brown= gnd
  • blw= -8.8v
  • gw= 9.3v
  • ow= -8.8v (data)
  • other= no shiz!

• Settings Logic analyzer:
  • 50M samples
  • 24 Mhz freq.
  • 8 bits
  • 1 stopbit
  • no parity
  • LSB send first
  • inverted
  • no special mode
  • 19200 baud

PS2

• A bit of a bitch, no idea what it is.
• "Smartcable" according to the whitepaper, probably for programming/configuring.

Docs

• http://www.vivotech.com/products/
• http://www.kis-kiosk.com/casestudies/assets/vivo-whitepaper-rfid.pdf
• http://blog.opensecurityresearch.com/2012/02/deconstructing-credit-cards-data.html