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4.I.4G

Coding and Cryptography | Part II, 2007

What is a linear feedback shift register? Explain the Berlekamp-Massey method for recovering the feedback polynomial of a linear feedback shift register from its output. Illustrate in the case when we observe output

101011001000……101011001000 \ldots \ldots101011001000……

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