Won the Esat Young Scientist of the Year award at age 16 (in 1999) for a new cryptography algorithm which was faster than [RSA] (though used more memory). But in the end the algorithm turned out to have a hole.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/features/2000/0318/fea13.htm

http://www.science.ie/careers/main_sarah.html

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,17330,00.html

http://cryptome.org/flannery-cp.htm

http://www.wolfram.com/products/mathematica/experience/flannery.html

http://www.cayley-purser.ie/

http://www.wellesley.edu/WomensReview/archive/2001/10/highlt.html

Authored book In Code with her father, a math teacher.

She turned down a chance to be in a Pepsi ad

She was lauded by the [Spice Girls]

And here's a nice group of people to be listed with: Biography Today: Profiles of people of interest to young readers: Scientists & Inventors Series by Laurie Lanzen Harris, ed. [MI]: Omnigraphics, 2001. Scientists in this volume are [Steve Case], Douglas Engelbart, [Shawn Fanning], Sarah Flannery, Bill Gates, [Laura Groppe], [Grace Murray Hopper], Steve Jobs, [Rand Miller], [Robyn Miller], [Shigeru Miyamoto], and Steve Wozniak

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