November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
365 pages
6h 56m
English
Contents
4.2 The Feistel Block Structure
4.3.1 Electronic Codebook (ECB) Mode
4.3.2 Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)
4.3.3 Cipher Feedback (CFB) Mode
4.3.4 Output Feedback (OFB) Mode
Block cipher
Cipher block chaining
Cipher feedback
Counter
Electronic code block
Feistel cipher
Output feedback
A stream cipher is one that encrypts/decrypts a data stream character by character, i.e., one character at a time. All the ciphers discussed in Chapter 3 are stream ciphers. On the other hand, a block cipher encrypts/decrypts a block of n characters and produces an output of similar length. ...
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