Wrong on animal rights

Two Rights Sometimes Make a Wrong

At the SAC’96 a new iterated block cipher, Akelarre, was proposed. Akelarre uses components of the block ciphers RC5 and IDEA and is conjectured strong with four rounds. This paper shows that Akelarre with any number of rounds is weak even under a ciphertext only attack. This illustrates that mixing two (presumably) strong ciphers is not always a good idea.

Government acts on animal rights activists

The British government is bolstering legislation to curb the activity of animal rights protesters who threaten researchers as pharmaceutical companies pledge funds to support animal testing in universities in the face of fears that their crucial supply of graduate and postgraduate recruits is under threat. A hastily assembled programme of legislative reform was released in response to the succe...

Personal reflections on the "animal-rights" phenomenon.

Animal rights protests build

Opposition to animal experiments in Britain appears to be extending beyond the labs to other businesses supplying them. Nigel Williams reports.

Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading.

Do non-human animals have rights? The answer to this question depends on whether animals have morally relevant mental properties. Mindreading is the human activity of ascribing mental states to other organisms. Current knowledge about the evolution and cognitive structure of mindreading indicates that human ascriptions of mental states to non-human animals are very inaccurate. The accuracy of h...