 Prof. Len Adleman (qv) is one of the three mathematicians who  invented the RSA (hes the "A") cryptosystem, currently the  preeminent method of encrypting any form of data in the world.  Adleman served as a mathematical consultant on the film, and spent  several days constructing the slides Janek displays at the college  symposium on "unbreakable codes" (which took Adleman a considerable  amount of time to create using primitive early