Free CISSP Certification Practice Questions:
Which of the following are NOT operating modes of the DES encryption algorithm?
A) CBC
B) ECB
C) CFB
D) OFB
E) CBE
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[Ans: E]
DES has four modes of operations:
CBC - Cipher Block Chaining. In
CBC mode, each plaintext block is XORed
with the previous cipher text block and
then encrypted.
ECB - Electronic Code Book. In ECB
mode, each plaintext block is encrypted
independently with the block cipher.
CFB - Cipher Feedback. In CFB mode,
the previous cipher text block is encrypted
and the output produced is combined with
the plaintext block using XOR to produce
the current cipher text block.
OFB - Output Feedback. OFB mode is similar to CFB mode except that the quantity XORed with each plaintext block is generated independently of both the plaintext and cipher text.
References: http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/fip81.htm
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