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Michael Farrell edited this page Jun 2, 2019 · 2 revisions

Cubic Nextfare on DESFire is normally distributed as a fully locked card. This is typically used for re-usable cards.

Systems include:

  • Breeze silver cards (Atlanta, GA, US)
  • Compass (Vancouver, BC, CA)
  • PATH SmartLink
  • Ventra (Chicago, IL, USA) - reusable cards with 19-digit card numbers (might be a custom Cubic system)

These cards are largely unsupportable.

Serial number

They have 16 digit serial numbers starting with 0164. This is derived as follows:

Digit positions Description
0 - 3 Always 0164
4 - 14 Bytes 1 - 7 of the card's UID, as big endian integer
15 Luhn check digit

Application layout

  • 0x10000: The main Nextfare application
    • 0x0: Standard file, 384 bytes
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