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Thales is a developer of fare collection systems.

There are many generations of systems in place:

  • a MIFARE Classic based system, used in OV-chipkaart (Netherlands) and Gautrain (South Africa)

    Some newer cards have been replaced with hardened MIFARE Classic cards, or fully-locked MIFARE Plus cards.

  • a MIFARE DESFire based system, used in AT HOP (Auckland, NZ) and Nol (Dubai, UAE)

Note: Thales acquired Gemalto, who have built their own systems as well.

Thales MFD

Thales MFD cards have two applications: 0xffffff, and an agency-specific application.

All values are big-endian, and offsets are specified in bits, unless otherwise specified.

Application 0xffffff

Note: Application 0xffffff is also used by other cards.

File 0x8

Standard file, 64 bytes, freely readable.

First Last Length Description
61 92 32 Card serial number (formatting differs per agency)

Possible deployments to investigate