[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 03 Dec, 2020
Cecylia Bocovich
cohosh at torproject.org
Thu Dec 3 17:39:42 UTC 2020
Hey everyone,
Here is our meeting log:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-12-03-15.59.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday December 3rd 16:00 UTC
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)
== Goal of this meeting ==
Weekly checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.
== Links to Useful documents ==
Our anti-censorship roadmap:
Roadmap:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards
The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home
Past meeting notes can be found at:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/
Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on:
All needs review tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
Sponsor 30
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6
Sponsor 28
must-do tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10
possible tickets:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None
Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <-- it
will be moved into gitlab with TPO labels <-- do we still need this? The
label is 'for anticensorship team'
Public bug-reporting pad:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep
== Announcements ==
https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=FINGERPRINT now online
Tor bridges will log this URL to help operators figure out if their
bridge works.
Currently only works for obfs2, obfs3, obfs4, and scramblesuit; not
vanilla.
== Discussion ==
== Actions ==
Take a look at our monthly report and add/modify content as you see fit:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/U4o0LNYPgm7SCxuF-1Sm
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Poking a Hole in the Wall: Efficient
Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC"
on Dec 3
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417874
Questions to ask and goals to have:
What aspects of the paper are questionable?
Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?
Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?
Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others
will pick it up?
== Updates ==
Name:
This week:
- What you worked on this week.
Next week:
- What you are planning to work on next week.
Help with:
- Something you need help with.
phw:
This week (2020-12-03):
Made it possible to look up resource status by hashed fingerprint.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/28
Brainstormed ways to stream bridge updates to polyanthum.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/9
Deployed Prometheus metrics for bridgestrap. They are publicly
accessible:
https://bridges.torproject.org/bridgestrap-metrics
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/4
Wrote a patch that makes Snowflake's broker order its snowflake-ips
metrics by value.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40011
Made rdsys's supported resources configurable.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/29
Improved bridgestrap's metrics to make them more in line with what
Prometheus recommends.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/10
Wrapped up bridgestrap deployment.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/5
Wrote November 2020 report.
Started implementing metrics for rdsys.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/14
Next week:
Reach out to a few folks to have emma run in different places.
Deploy bridgestrap and rdsys, and expose bridge status page.
Progress on Salmon.
Help with:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40011
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/10
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-12-03
Last week:
- created tor-browser-build!129
- reviewed snowflake-mobile!16
- reviewed bridgestrap!3
- created snowflake#40023 and a fix snowflake!20
- created snowflake!21 for snowflake#40018
- did some work on multiplexing (snowflake#25723)
- worked on avoiding double delays (snowflake#34080)
- wrote probetest installation and survival guides:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Probetest-Installation-Guide
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Probetest-Survival-Guide
- sponsor 28 meetings
This week:
- continue to monitor snowflake stats
- Figure out why we still have unknown proxies
- follow up on progress towards a telegram bot for gettor
- have broker inform proxies when to poll (snowflake#25598)
- Finish work on avoiding double delays (snowflake#34080)
- Continue snowflake multiplexing work (snowflake#25723)
- Review snowflake!22
Needs help with:
- review of snowflake!21
juggy :
This week:
- Got very basic "suggested readings" list up and running here :
https://jugheadjones10.github.io/anti-censorship-reading/
Next week:
- Keep studying BridgeDB to write architectural overview
Help with:
- Open issues here
(https://github.com/jugheadjones10/anti-censorship-reading ) for
papers/resources/readings that you think might be useful for newcomers
arlolra: 2020-10-29
Last week:
-
Next week:
- getting back up to speed
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2020-12-03
Last week:
- archived snowflake-webextension-0.5.2
- reviewed client NAT type reclassification
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/19
- reviewed Snowflake client loop restructuring
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/18
Next week:
Help with:
Antonela: 2020-08-27
This week:
- Wrapping Babatunde's research on the use of circumvention tools
during internet censorship in Africa. Wrapping Personas for s30 with it.
For september:
- We are planning interviews with users in China to run our bridges
discovery issues script in real time. We discussed to include TBA +
snowflake as a task for users to run over a week or two and report back.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
- I still have bridges.tpo to lektor issue open
- More work on UX/UI for TB 10.0/10.5
- Review Salmon related tickets (im late with it!)
agix:2020-12-03
Last week:
-Gathered ideas for httpt issue #4
-Dug deeper into Go (found some nice resources)
-Read this weeks paper
Next week:
-Find new rdsys ticket
Help with:
-Review of
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/5
-(Optional) Some feedback on
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/4
hanneloresx: 2020-10-22
Last week:
- Took break to focus on work
Next week:
- #32117: Look at CAPTCHA success rate for users from the US across
different types of bridges
Help with:
-
thymbahutymba: 2020-04-02
Last week:
- CI/CD pipeline for multiarch docker images, which has a problem
with the apt tor version even though the apt repository have been
changed into the Dockerfile.
Next week:
Help with:
HashikD: 2020-11-19
This week:
-
Next week:
- Research on how to implement a STUN check on Android.
Help with: -
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