Biblio...librfid(3pm)

📦 version 0.05, in debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

🌸 Biblio...librfid 💅

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally the manpage for Biblio...librfid (that's the 3pm section, iykyk) 💖

✨ NAME ✨

Biblio::RFID::Reader::librfid — bestie, all it does is execute librfid-tool. that's the whole job. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this thing is a wrapper around librfid-tool, which comes from

http://openmrtd.org/projects/librfid/

ngl, librfid-tool has some limitations, and because of that, only two things are supported here:

  • inventory in Biblio::RFID::Reader::API
  • read_blocks in Biblio::RFID::Reader::API

that's it. that's the menu. no cap 💀

okay so here's the tea ☕ — this version uses a modified librfid-tool, and that modified version slays because it supports a brand-new -s flag 🎉 Here's the way it works:

  • sectors 0-3 get read with the -k key
  • sectors 4-7 get read with the key from the -s option

periodt. that's the split 💅

BUT — and this is the cute part — this code might also serve as a template for integration with literally any command-line utilities for different RFID readers 🫶 so like, it's giving starter pack energy ✨

🚨 vibe check time — this has currently only been tested with the Omnikey CardMan 5321, and bestie… that one has problems 😭 After a while it just stops responding to commands from librfid-tool. so the author (a real one, fr fr) provided a small C program to reset it:
examples/usbreset.c

small, mighty, does the job 🧚💜

kisses bestie, this page was brought to you by perl v5.36.0 and was last touched on 2023-05-24 — go forth and read some RFID blocks 🌈👑

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