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POSTNET is a barcode used by the US Postal Service to encode ZIP Code, ZIP+4 code, and delivery point of mail. Learn about its formats, encoding, check digit algorithm, and discontinuation.
Find the three-digit ZIP code prefix, the state, and the USPS Sectional Center Facility for any ZIP code in the United States. The web page does not show the five-digit ZIP codes for each prefix, but you can use the links to search for them.
A postal code is a series of letters or digits used to identify a location for the purpose of sorting mail. This web page shows an overview of postal code notation schemes for all countries that have them.
Learn about the 65-bar barcode for use on mail in the United States, which provides greater information and functionality than its predecessors. The barcode encodes up to 31 digits of mail-piece data, such as service type, mailer ID, sequence number, and delivery point ZIP code.
A delivery point is a single mailbox or other place at which mail is delivered. Learn how delivery points are assigned and used in different postal systems, such as the USPS, the UK, New Zealand and Australia.
Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/urandom is symbolically linked to it since FreeBSD 11. [1] Apple OSes have switched to Fortuna ...
A telephone prefix is the first set of digits after the country and area codes of a phone number. In North America, it is the first three digits of a local number, and in other countries it may have different lengths and meanings.
A method of generating pseudorandom numbers by squaring an n-digit seed and taking the middle n digits as the next seed. The method has a short period and many weaknesses, and was invented by John von Neumann in 1949.