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Cipher Feedback Mode DES, etc

A variation on CBC is used where the message may not be a multiple of 64 bits, or where interactive (character at a time) encryption and decryption is desired. This is called Cipher Feedback Mode (CBM), and uses shift registers to permit one byte at a time to be encrypted or decrypted.
 
DES has always been controversial:
 

 
Some good Internet resources on cryptography are available here The tutorial for this lecture is Tutorial #19.
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