I currently reside in Chicago, Illinois. To assist the Court, this Declaration includes some of the facts which I have stated previously in my Declaration in Support of Plaintiff's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and Summary Adjudication of Issues. I am currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. I have been asked by my employer, the University of Illinois at Chicago, to teach an undergraduate course in the science of cryptography during the Spring 1997 semester which begins in January, 1997. Teaching Goals 4.
Cryptography is an applied subject.
The fundamental goal of my course is for the students to understand how to use encryption to protect information. To understand how to use encryption, the students must become familiar with the most important published work in cryptography. When I give an algorithm to my students, I may express it in English, in mathematical formulas, or in source code. This choice is based on many factors, including the type of lesson being demonstrated, the precision with which the algorithm needs to be expressed, and the use which will be made of it. I expect my students to evaluate the same factors when they express algorithms.