[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 10 Dec 2020

Thu Dec 10 16:36:23 UTC 2020

Hi all,

Here are our meeting minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-12-10-15.58.html

And here is our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday December 10th 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 ==

    *

== Discussion ==

    * Your thoughts on httpt #4 ( https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/4 )
        * How would you approach this issue?
        * What does the threat model look like?

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==

    *

== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "" on
        *
        * 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 (2020-12-10):
        * Reviewed  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/21
        * Reviewed https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/23
        * A bit of brainstorming at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/4
        * Bridgestrap debugging https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/11
        * Added rdsys's backend to our monit config.
        * Wrote a patch for obfs4proxy's certificate pinning issue.
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/meek/-/issues/40001
        * Published Nov 2020 report on tor-project@ and on our blog.
        * Debugged a memory exhaustion issue in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/30
        * Attended some DRL meetings.
        * Filed TPA ticket to have rdsys's backend metrics scraped by Prometheus: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40113
        * Realised that tor's dormant mode broke bridgestrap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/12
  Next week:
        * Reach out to a few folks to have emma run in different places.
        * Progress on Salmon.
  Help with:
        *

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-12-10
Last week:
    - reviewed bridgestrap!4
    - reviewed snowflake!22
    - worked on debugging performance issues with snowflake#25723
    - found some throughput bottlenecks in KCP (snowflake#40026)
    - created https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/onionsproutsbot project and read through source code
This week:
    - reduce KCP bottlenecks (snowflake#40026)
    - continue to monitor snowflake stats
    - Figure out why we still have unknown proxies
    - have broker inform proxies when to poll (snowflake#25598)
    - Finish work on avoiding double delays (snowflake#34080)
    - Continue snowflake multiplexing debugging (snowflake#25723)
Needs help with:

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: 2020-12-09 (will miss 2020-12-10 meeting)
    Last week:
    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:2020-12-10
    Last week:
        -Did some research for httpt #4
        -Started with rdsys #6
        -More Go
    Next week:
        -Finish rdsys #6
        -More work on httpt #4
    Help with:
        -

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: -