information in a consistent, transparent and comparable manner taking into account specific guidelines and national circumstances. The proposed report is consistent with the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications from Parties not included in Annex I to the Convention ” (COP Decision 17/CP.8). The main components of the report are: description of national circumstances; national inventory of anthropogenic green house gases (GHG) emissions by sources and removals by sinks; assessment of vulnerability and planning of adaptation; climate change mitigation by addressing emissions and removals; capacity building to assess financial and technology needs, modalities to absorb them and host projects; compilation and production of the SNC, including Executive Summary. Lao PDR’s SNC is composed of several chapters. Many chapters have been written by different authors. The remaining chapter is constraints, gaps and related technical and financial needs. It is important to provide information on the gaps and constraints and the related financial, technical and capacity needs identified during the implementation of the national communication. Some of the information to be provided in this section may have already been included under various sections of the national communication. However, it would be necessary to further elaborate on the specific constraints, gaps and

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Context Software obfuscation is a code transformation which aims to make a computer program “unintelligible ” while preserving its functionality. A recent breakthrough in the formal study of obfuscation is presented by Garg et al. [1]. They propose a candidate indistinguishability obfuscation approach, which is applicable to all polynomial-size log-depth circuits and is based on multi-linear jigsaw puzzles (a simplified variant of multi-linear maps). This work promises to be ground-breaking since Goldwasser and Rothblum have proven that indistinguishability obfuscators achive the notion of best-possible obfuscation [2]. Indistinguishability obfuscation has several interesting applications, e.g. functional encryption [1] and deniable encryption [3]. However, as to our knowledge, no studies have been published as to the effectiveness of this approach against reverse engineering attacks of simple algorithms implemented in software or hardware programs. Goal One goal of this thesis is to investigate the applicability of the approach proposed by Garg et al. [1] on modern software and/or hardware programs. In this context, applicability refers

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