Reading Visa payWave Credit Card Details via NFC on Android

Question

Is it possible to read the credit card details (name, number, expiry) of a Visa payWave card via NFC on a Samsung Galaxy Nexus? What about other NFC-enabled credit cards?

If it's not possible, is there some way to retrieve a unique ID from the card?

Also, any references or example code would be a great help.

Answer 1

There are at least 2 Android apps that can already do this: Squareless and Electronic Pickpocket RFID.

Some references:

• Explanation of how to do it: http://blog.saush.com/2006/09/08/getting-information-from-an-emv-chip-card/
• Java code: http://code.google.com/p/javaemvreader/
• This may be helpful, too: http://cardpeek.googlecode.com/svn-history/r23/trunk/dot_cardpeek_dir/scripts/emv.lua
• See also this question: How do I read the PAN from an EMV SmartCard from Java