KDE PIM/KItinerary/Thalys Barcode
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Format
This is an ERA SSB version 3 code as described in "European Union Agency For Railways - Technical Document - Digital Security Elements For Rail Passenger Ticketing - TAP TSI TD B.12 - §7 SSB - Small Structured Barcode", with the following details/deviations:
- Issuer code is "3018" (UIC company code of Thalys).
- Always "type 1" / "IRT".
- The flag indicating whether stations are specified as numeric or alpha-numeric format is set to '0' (numeric), but the content is alpha-numeric.
- The departure time is always "0".
- The open text field contains the 17 digit CIN, followed by a space and another single digit ("5" in all samples).
- The DSA signature parameters are encoded as variable length/zero padded ASN.1/BER as found in UIC 918.3 rather than the fixed length split fields specified in ERA SSB.
Obsolete (Bit Layout)
- always exactly 114 byte
- there's two 14-15 byte variable lengths blocks towards the end with very high entropy, possibly some kind of signature
- 0:4 - 2:1 (14 bit) is "3018", which is the UIC operator code of Thalys. This matches Appendix C of ANNEX B.6 of TAP TSI, but unfortunately only for the first 18 bit it seems. Might still mean a similar encoding is used, but in a different layout.
Byte[:Bit] (MSB) | Content | Meaning | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
0:0 - 4:7 | 0x32 F2 84 20 40 | fixed in all samples | |
5:0 - 5:7 | 0x01 or 0x02 | class | |
6:0 - 9:5 | null | ||
9:6 - 16:3 | 9 x 6bit string | ticket number | |
16:4 - 18:3 | TODO | ||
18:4 - 22:1 | 5 x 6bit string | departure station | see below |
22:2 - 25:7 | 5 x 6bit string | arrival station | see below |
26:0 - 27:7 | TODO | ||
28:0 - 29:1 | null | ||
29:2 - 32:1 | 4 x 6bit string | train number | preceding bits might be a 5th character for this |
32:2 - 33:3 | 9bit uint | coach number | field seems a bit large for this? |
33:4 - 35:5 | 3 x 6bit string | seat number | |
35:6 - 42:6 | null | ||
42:7 - 55:4 | 17 x 6 bit string | CIN | 17 digit number, also seen on some PDF tickets, possibly sequential, common prefix "3084060" in all samples |
55:5 - 55:7 | TODO | ||
56:0 - 58:7 | 0x0a 80 30 | same TLV/BER/DER-like nested signature block as used by KDE_PIM/KItinerary/SBB_Barcode, 0x80 would be a null-terminated variable length block according to BER | |
59:0 - 59:7 | 1 byte | length of the following data | 0x2C or 0x2E in current samples |
After this there follow two blocks with the following variable length layout:
Byte[:Bit] (MSB) | Content | Meaning | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
0:0 - 0:7 | 0x02 | fixed | |
1:0 - 1:7 | 8bit uint | length | |
N bytes | high entropy content |
Remaining bytes are filled by null until reaching 114 bytes.
Strings:
- encoded as 6bit per character
- a character can be converted to the corresponding ASCII value by adding 32
Station identifiers:
- using Benerail identifiers, which consists of 5 upper-case letters, the first two being the ISO 3166-1 alpha 2 code
- very similar to SNCF identifiers, but there are slight differences e.g. for Amsterdam Central (NLASC vs NLAMA).