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Explain why CBC mode encryption cannot be parallelised, but decryption can be parallelised.

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Explain why CBC mode encryption cannot be parallelised, but decryption can be parallelised.

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CBC (Cipher Block Chaining) mode encryption cannot be parallelised because each block of plaintext is XORed with the previous ciphertext block before being encrypted. This means that the encryption of each block depends on the result of the encryption of the previous block. Therefore, you cannot compute the encryption of multiple blocks at the same time, because you need the result of the previous block's encryption to start the next one.

On the other hand, decryption in CBC mode can be parallelised. This is because each block of ciphertext is decrypted and then XORed with the previous ciphertext block to get the plaintext. The decryption of each block only depends on the current and previous ciphertext blocks, not on the decryption of the previous block. Therefore, you can decrypt multiple blocks at the same time, as long as you have the corresponding previous ciphertext blocks.

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