[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes,23 July 2020
Cecylia Bocovich
cohosh at torproject.org
Thu Jul 23 20:14:15 UTC 2020
Here is the meeting log:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-23-15.58.html
And the meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday July 23rd 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
== Announcements ==
The cost for Snowflake broker CDN service was non-zero, 0.01 USD,
for the first time last month.
On track for 0.02 USD in July.
== Discussion ==
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
Relevant papers from Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020.
There's one on VPN usage, two on decoy routing, and one on rendezvous
using cryptocurrency.
https://petsymposium.org/2020/program_UTC.php
Emotional and Practical Considerations towards the Adoption and
Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII
Running Refraction Networking for Real
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue4/popets-2020-0073.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYKdy7lCRY
SiegeBreaker: An SDN Based Practical Decoy Routing System
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0051.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mHOKFtcYA
MoneyMorph: Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Permissionless
Cryptocurrencies
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0058.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnc2i64rXvI
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Emotional and Practical Considerations Towards the
Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology" on
July 23rd
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII
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 (2020-07-23):
Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#27984.
Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake#40002.
Spent a lot of time working on design of BridgeDB rewrite:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32900#note_2694962
Next week:
Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.
Help with:
Thoughts on tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#32900 greatly appreciated.
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-07-23
Last week:
- sponsor 28 evaluation bullshit, mostly
- added more stun servers to client (snowflake#30579)
- reviewed snowflake-mobile tickets
- talked with phw about bridgedb re-write
This week:
- take a look at #25595
- NAT discovery at proxies (snowflake-webext#13)
- snowflake sponsor 28 evaluation (monday, tuesday)
- update tor-browser-build#40016 with work on snowflake#30579
- continue with GetTor + BridgeDB refactor
Needs help with:
- review of snowflake#30579 (snowflake!7)
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
paper/resource/reading
arlolra: 2020-06-11
Last week:
-
Next week:
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- updated markup in the Snowflake wiki page for gitlab
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/home
Next week:
- find out what went wrong with trying to give cohosh CDN access
(snowflake#30510)
- set up an etherpad for public bug reporting and link it from
https://snowflake.torproject.org/#bugs (snowflake#34435)
Help with:
Antonela: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- (S28) Snowflake Android App UI
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-mobile/-/issues/11
- (S30) Making bridges.tpo looks like tpo.org
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322
- (S30) Planning activities for the user group in HK (happening next
week):
- Run emma
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20activities/2020/run-emma.md
- Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
This week:
- (S28) Review Snowflake Android App UI
- (S30) Working on making bridges.tpo work with lektor
- (S30) Sent Get Bridges User Research to the group in HK. Will meet
them on Friday. Final script:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
agix:2020-07-02
Last week:
-Worked on #27984
Next week:
-Work on #34318
Help with:
-Review of #27984 (It's just a feedback implementation)
hanneloresx: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- Read existing documentation for BridgeDB.
- Started investigating #32117
Next week:
- Work on #32117
- Work on #33727
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: 2020-07-16
Last week:
- Made designs for Snowflake mobile:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-mobile/-/issues/11#note_2693845
- #6 Showing users stat about how many clients they served in the
past 24
Next week:
- Work on ticket #11
Help with: -
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