Barcode ticket security is a growing issue (we get asked about it all the time) and there aren't any standards yet for preventing unscrupulous individuals from altering the tickets that are issued.
Barcodes are being used as a form of virtual ticket that you can print from your PC at home or show on your phone screen to gain access to airport check-in, bus tickets, train tickets, promotional coupons, to gain access to a venue or be entitled to something valuable.
What do we want to achieve?
Barcode tickets that can be used to allow a virtual transaction, such as on a PC or a mobile phone to provide an instant ticket to the customer, with which they can instantly prove entitlement at a venue.
Ideally, to get the largest acceptance of barcode tickets, the designers of venue ticket systems should be free to integrate the ticket validation in whatever hardware or software they want to, and without any onerous security requirements - that way whatever cash registers (tills/EPOS), handheld scanners or gate systems that a venue uses can be used at their convenience.
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