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U.S. Supreme Court to Revisit Miranda Rights Case with regards to the use of voluntary confessions in the court. Bush welcomes the review in a bland, political way.

Sarah Flannery's paper on her Cayley-Purser crypto algorithm is finally online. Sarah was 16 years old when she discovered a crypto algorithm faster (and what was hoped to be better) than RSA (see this Wired story). Quoting Bruce Schneier's newsletter:

Flannery's paper, describing the Cayley-Purser algorithm, has been published on the Internet by an unknown source. It's interesting work, but it's not secure. Flannery herself publishes a break of the algorithm in an appendix.

Weblogging can be such a pain in the ass, I'm surprised to find it's a little bit addicting. Here I tried to quit for the holidays, and look what happened...