\documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex,active,tightpage]{preview} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \begin{document} \begin{preview} % thanks to http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/75838/5645 \tikzset{XOR/.style={fill=black!15,draw,minimum size=13pt,circle,append after command={ [shorten >=\pgflinewidth, shorten <=\pgflinewidth,] (\tikzlastnode.north) edge (\tikzlastnode.south) (\tikzlastnode.east) edge (\tikzlastnode.west) } } } \tikzstyle{encrypt}=[draw,fill=black!15,rectangle,minimum size=20pt,inner sep=0pt] \begin{tikzpicture} \newcommand{\n}{3} \foreach \nr in {1, ..., \n}{ \node (M\nr) at (0,{(\n-\nr)*2}) {$M_\nr$}; \node (x\nr)[XOR] at (2,{(\n-\nr)*2}) {}; \node (E\nr)[encrypt] at (4,{(\n-\nr)*2}) {$E$}; \node (C\nr) at (6,{(\n-\nr)*2}) {$C_\nr$}; \node (K\nr) at (4,{(\n-\nr)*2+1}) {$K$}; \draw[->,very thick] (M\nr) -- (x\nr); \draw[->,very thick] (x\nr) -- (E\nr); \draw[->,very thick] (E\nr) -- (C\nr); \draw[->,very thick] (K\nr) -- (E\nr); } \foreach \nr in {2, ..., \n}{ \pgfmathtruncatemacro{\tmp}{\nr-1} \draw[->,very thick] (E\tmp) -- (4, {(\n-\tmp)*2-0.5}) -- (2, {(\n-\nr)*2+1.5}) -- (x\nr); } \node (Mx) at (0,-1) {$\vdots$}; \node (xx) at (2,-1) {$\vdots$}; \node (Ex) at (4,-1) {$\vdots$}; \node (Cx) at (6,-1) {$\vdots$}; \end{tikzpicture} \end{preview} \end{document}