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Paper 4, Section I, H

Coding and Cryptography | Part II, 2018

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

010111100010…010111100010 \ldots010111100010…

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