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Remote authentication #14

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@carstenblt

From my understanding it should be possible to remotely authenticate a tag without saving the key on the reader by having another device handling the challenges. This way a remote server could securely identify a tag without trusting the reader. Is that correct?

If it is, I would continue to modify DESFire.authenticate so that the tag challenge, RndB_enc is sent to the remote server. To answer the challenge the server would have to answer with RndAB_enc. After the card reply, the server would check RndA_enc and return the session key comprised of RndA and RndB.

Does this make sense? Is it safe for an untrusted device to have both RndA/B and RndA/B_dec available? If so I would make a PR to add options to authenticate() for providing functions for the challenges and session key creation.

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