Case study
CTS Strasbourg Ticket Reader: mapping SRI512 ticket memory
CTS Strasbourg Ticket Reader maps the SRI512 memory used by Strasbourg CTS paper tickets and provides a C utility to read and decode it through libnfc. The documented fields include ticket type, validity counter, validator ID and last-validation time.
- Targets
- Firmware
- Category
- Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship
- Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed
- Evidence class
- C2 code & docs, no demo or download
- Stars
- 1
- Last commit
- 2026-04-18
- Language
- C
GitHub data as of 2026-11-10
Evidence
- Observed
- Code and documentation observed; no download method or demo found.
- Checked
- 2026-11-08
Requirements & limits
- Prerequisites: A Strasbourg CTS contactless paper ticket, a libnfc-compatible NFC reader and Linux.
- Prerequisites: libnfc and gcc are needed to build the utility; hardware access requires root privileges.
- License: No licence file in the repository.
Cite
BibTeX
@misc{cts-strasbourg-reader-case,
title = {{CTS Strasbourg Ticket Reader: mapping SRI512 ticket memory}},
howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/Nour833/CTS_STRASBOURG_READER}},
url = {https://github.com/Nour833/CTS_STRASBOURG_READER},
urldate = {2026-11-06},
note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/cts-strasbourg-reader-case/}}
}Plain text
CTS Strasbourg Ticket Reader: mapping SRI512 ticket memory. https://github.com/Nour833/CTS_STRASBOURG_READER (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/cts-strasbourg-reader-case/
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About this entry
The description was reviewed against primary sources.
Primary sources
- README.md GitHub · Nour833/CTS_STRASBOURG_READER · Revision 72068d1
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