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by EricBetts 874 days ago
Do you recall any of the details? "Rolling code" is not a term often associated with RFID/NFC. The Portland Custom House WeWork used HID Prox.
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Basically the reader writes data back to the fob and expects to see it the next time it reads it. This results in either the original or the copy getting de-synced.

One interesting capability that this unlocks is that battery powered, offline readers (think apartment door that uses the same fob as the lobby) can write out things like battery state so that apartment maintenance knows when it's time to swap out batteries.