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orca card

ORCA is a MIFARE DESFire based public transit ticketing system in use by multiple agencies in Seattle, WA.

All values on the card are big-endian, and timestamps are stored as Unix timestamp.

All data is in application IDs 0x3010f2 (main) and 0xffffff (id).

id app, File 0x7

id app, File 0xf (Card Metadata, 9 bytes)

First byte Last byte Length Field description
0 3 4 Unknown
4 7 4 Serial number
8 8 1 Unknown

main app, File 0x0

main app, File 0x2 (Trips)

First bit Last bit Length Field description
24 27 4 Agency
28 59 32 Timestamp
76 91 16 Coach or station number
120 134 15 Fare
136 143 8 Transaction type
272 287 16 New balance

main app, File 0x3 (Topups)

Follows the same format as trips

main app, File 0x4 (Balance)

Each record is 48 bytes

First byte Last byte Length Field description
41 42 2 Card balance (cents)

main app, File 0x6

main app, File 0x7

main app, File 0xf

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