Security Issues for 2D Barcodes Ticketing Systems

Authors

  • Cristian Toma Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Keywords:

2D barcode, Ticketing System, DataMatrix code – ISO/IEC 16022, QR code – ISO/IEC 18004, MMS – Multimedia Message Service, M-DRM – Mobile Digital Rights Management, 2D Barcode Automatic Ticketing System – 2D BATS

Abstract

The paper presents a solution for endcoding/decoding access to the subway public transportation systems. First part of the paper is dedicated through section one and two to the most used 2D barcodes used in the market – QR and DataMatrix. The sample for DataMatrix is author propietary and the QR sample is from the QR standard [2]. The section three presents MMS and Digital Rights Management topics used for issuing the 2D barcodes tickets. The second part of the paper, starting with section four shows the architecture of Subway Ticketing Systems and the proposed procedure for the ticket issuing. The conclusions identify trends of the security topics in the public transportation systems.

Author Biography

Cristian Toma, Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies, Romania

Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics

Department of IT&C Technologies

References

DataMatrix 2D barcode standard ISO/IEC 16022:2006

QR 2D barcode standard ISO/IEC 18004:2000

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Ion IVAN, Cristian TOMA, Catalin BOJA, Marius POPA - Secure architectures for the Digital Rights Management of the M-Content, WSEAS Transactions on Computers, Issue 3, Volume 6, November 2006, ISSN 1109 – 2750 (http://www.wseas.org)

Tan Jin Soon, QR Code, Automatic Data Capture Technical Committee Presentation

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Published

2011-03-30

How to Cite

Toma, C. (2011). Security Issues for 2D Barcodes Ticketing Systems. Journal of Mobile, Embedded and Distributed Systems, 3(1), 34-53. Retrieved from http://jmeds.eu/index.php/jmeds/article/view/Security-Issues-for-2D-Barcodes-Ticketing-Systems

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): Security Technologies for ICT

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