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Introduction/Additional information: 

The Text Message Payload, prior to encryption, varies from 74 to 896 bits in length. Conforming to the AES Encryption scheme with a 128-bit cipher key, the encrypted part of the payload then effectively becomes 128, 256, 384, 512, 640, 768 or 896 bits in length to create blocks of 128 bits.

Permitted as from: 
04/06/2014
Registrant: 
USCG
Physical link: 
AIS
Message number (0=VDES-VDE): 
8
DAC or VPFI: 
366
FI / Message ID: 
55
State: 
deprecated
Number of slots (max): 
2
Last modified: 
29/01/2021 - 23:19
Details: 

Parameter

Number of

bits

Description

Encryption

Status

DAC

10

Identifier for this message: 366

Unencrypted

Function ID

6

Function Identifier: 55

Unencrypted

Source ID (MMSI)

30

Source MMSI number.

AES encrypted

Acknowledgement Flag

1

Reserved for future use.

AES encrypted

Segment Number

11

Reserved for future use.

AES encrypted

Text length

8

Length of Text Message

AES encrypted

Text Message

0-822

Variable

User Text Message (6 bits times 0-137 characters)

AES encrypted

Checksum

8

Exclusive OR (XOR) 8-bit

AES encrypted

 

Stuffed bits

 

Variable

Variable; stuffed bits are inserted so that the number of bits in the encrypted field

is a multiple of 128 bits; set to zero.

 

AES encrypted

 

 

TOTAL

144

272

400

528

656

784

912

 

 

16 unencrypted bits plus 128, 256, 384,

512, 640, 768 or 896 encrypted bits

 

 

Considering the constraints imposed by the AES encryption algorithm and recommended bit- stuffing guidelines contained in Section 3.2.2.1 of Annex 2 to ITU-R M.1371-5, this results in the following slot usage as a function of number of 6-bit ASCII characters:

 

Number of Slots

Number of 6-bit ASCII characters

1

not possible to have a 1-slot message

2

0 - 30

3

31 - 73

4

74 - 115

5

116 - 137

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