#SmartCards
(hi i've spent years working as an NFC dev and know way too much about smartcards now)
July 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Platform Validators are live across the NI Railways network🚆

Rail passengers should validate their smartcards, paper barcode tickets and mLink barcode tickets before boarding the train.

For full details visit - www.translink.co.uk/using-transl...
September 25, 2026 at 9:00 AM
RDP Auth PSA: FIDO2 != smartcards. They use very different API layers, and they're not the same.

Smartcards: Kerberos with PKINIT and X.509 certificates, requires a KDC line-of-sight

FIDO2: doesn't use Kerberos, requires RDP RDS AAD auth and being joined to Entra ID
April 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Liebe Gemeinde.

Im nächsten Leben werde ich eine DATEV-API, dann spricht nicht wenigstens niemand an.

* mit OAuth und Smartcards kämpfend gesendet *

challenge=Base64URL(SHA256(LechMichAmArsch))

Habt den Abend fein.
January 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Metro and city+airport busses: App tickets require an Azerbaijani phone no, smartcards require cash, no other payment methods

The suburban railway, completely irrelevant to the average tourist: We're doing open payments, but it's Visa only 🤡
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Out: Transit smartcards

In: Transit KeyCards
March 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
143. American transit planners are used to a glut of micro data via surveys and surveillance apps (including smartcards) and can't fathom how unnecessary it is for good planning here. I don't need to know exact origins and destinations to plan a Takt.
November 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Obviously a good move. Buying tickets including smartcards from individual railway lines never made sense. www.passengertransport.co.uk/2025/01/grea...
Great British Railways to unite TOC retailing
www.passengertransport.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Transit smartcards, still the best way for transit agencies to just set money on fire

(Just do QR and/or open payment!)
January 17, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Das Ende der in den SmartCards von 35.000 Konnektoren verwendeten RSA-Zertifikate mit einer Schlüssellänge von 2048 Bit naht. Kassenärzte warnen seit 2024. #Digital Health
Gesundheitsdatenautobahn: Viele Praxen könnten bald auf der Strecke bleiben
Das Ende der in den SmartCards von 35.000 Konnektoren verwendeten RSA-Zertifikate mit einer Schlüssellänge von 2048 Bit naht. Kassenärzte warnen seit 2024.
www.heise.de
May 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Como se os piratas de longa data já não enfrentaram o mesmo tipo de contra ataque das operadoras de cabo e satélite como os ECMs envenenados para matar smartcards
November 16, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Agency management meanwhile wanted tap cards - LA and Vancouver both bought Cubic smartcards that neither city really needed, and bundled the smartcards with replacing POP with faregates. What interests these agencies is more difficult fare barriers, never anything that helps passengers like PSDs.
July 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Tap On/Tap Off, Touch On/Touch Off, Tag On/Tag Off or Validate? Here's a map of what we call it when we board public transport with our Smartcards across Australia.

They also have a Top Up feature, and to 'top it off', Translink also has a 'Tap Into Smart Ticketing' webpage!
September 3, 2023 at 7:20 AM
When I reported from Zambia in 2013, they were rolling out SmartCards so you could take your medical records with you wherever you go
July 31, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Ohne Austausch droht Ausfall: KBV warnt, dass zahlreiche Praxen nicht mehr an die Telematikinfrastruktur angeschlossen sein werden www.heise.de/news/Gesundh...
Gesundheitsdatenautobahn: Viele Praxen könnten bald auf der Strecke bleiben
Das Ende der in den SmartCards von 35.000 Konnektoren verwendeten RSA-Zertifikate mit einer Schlüssellänge von 2048 Bit naht. Kassenärzte warnen seit 2024.
www.heise.de
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It doesn't have a specific name - it's just how POP works in Continental Europe, where it predates smartcards.
December 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Yep. It's a solved problem with a variety of payment methods - Germany doesn't do smartcards but we have payment by app or auto-stamped paper tickets. It just requires understanding that there's good commuter rail outside North America.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
GCRTA smartcards when
August 3, 2023 at 2:29 AM
It turns out that replacing the static payment authz tokens (PAN, CVV) with smartcards that generate non-replayable cryptographic payment authorization messages e2ee'd to the card issuer made infecting points of sale effectively useless.
December 25, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Platform Validators are live across the NI Railways network🚆

Rail passengers should validate their smartcards, paper barcode tickets and mLink barcode tickets before boarding the train.

For full details visit - www.translink.co.uk/using-transl...
September 18, 2026 at 9:00 AM
The placement of liability for fraudulent credit card charges onto the issuer incentivized the shift to EMV, so we now have smartcards in our wallets and secure elements on our smartphones.

Contrast this to the security of authn to way more critical things than buying a coffee.
January 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
i propose once we have discontinued all transit smartcards transit agencies shall sell plastic cards that look like transit smartcards just for collectors who like them
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Wenn die gematik mit Sicherheit Geld machen kann - oh ja, dann sind sie kompromisslos für Sicherheit! Jawollja!

Sichere ePA?

Äh .... Ja nee....also.....äh......

www.heise.de/news/Gesundh...
Patientenakte, E-Rezept & eAU: Viele Praxen könnten bald auf der Strecke bleiben
Das Ende der in den SmartCards von 35.000 Konnektoren verwendeten RSA-Zertifikate mit einer Schlüssellänge von 2048 Bit naht. Kassenärzte warnen seit 2024.
www.heise.de
May 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Our Late Night bus services are running every Friday & Saturday night for 2026! We’ll get you home after nights out, gigs or catch-ups with friends.

Standard fares apply, and all standard tickets, smartcards and concessionary passes will be accepted.

ℹ️ spkl.io/6004AapJ6
September 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM