[tor-project] Initial roadmap for the anti-censorship team

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Looks like a good overview.  I'd like to see two other pieces fit in
there somehow:

* Encrypted SNI for domain fronting
* getting the code deployable on all the platforms Tor supports

The latter means having people available with the requisite skill sets
for deploying things on Windows, macOS, Android, etc.  I think it needs
to be on the roadmap because it can be a surprising amount of work, and
that work can be dramatically reduced based on early choices.  For
example, Python is easy on GNU/Linux and macOS, but a poor choice on
Windows and Android.

.hc

Roger Dingledine:
> Here is an early brainstorming list of the scope for our future
> anti-censorship team. Let us know if we left out a critical category.
> And of course once we have actual team members I expect they will take
> this initial roadmap and do something even smarter than this list. :)
> 
> (1) BridgeDB:
> - Automated monitoring
> - Understand current usage patterns, consider improving the design
>     Don't get obfs4 bridges blocked by other transports (#28655)
> 
> (2) Pluggable Transports:
> - Improve the PT interface with Tor, to pass logs etc (#25502)
>     [with network team]
> - Tor Browser can use other circumvention tools as proxies (#28556)
>     [with browser team]
> - Specific PTs:
>     Maintain obfs4proxy (like fixing the iat bug that let Kazakhstan block it)
>     Snowflake
>     Httpsproxy
>     Marionette
>     Domain front through community sites
> - Talk to research groups to keep in touch about their PT research work
> 
> (3) Improve Tor user experience for users in censored / crappy networks:
> - Gettor: automated monitoring and automated updates. Improve UX.
> - Understanding and reducing client time to bootstrap [with network team]
>     and other parameters that are tuned poorly for slow networks
> 
> (4) Understand Tor censorship:
> - Tor Browser network testing mode (#23839, #28531) [with browser team]
> - Reachability scanning for the default (shipped in Tor Browser) bridges
>     [with ooni]
> - Understand bridge load and bridge blocking (e.g. fix user counting bugs
>     that are making our Turkey count wrong) [with network / metrics teams]
> 
> (5) Help users use bridges:
> - Help NGOs get their users on bridges (#28015, #28526)
> - Tor Browser *automates* picking the right PTs [with browser team]
> 
> (6) Community outreach and integration: [with community team]
> - [Initial list of outreach partner NGOs elided for now, since some of
>    them have opsec needs to keep their people safe]
> 
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