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

Thu Sep 10 17:34:48 UTC 2020

Hi all,

Here are our meeting minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-09-10-15.58.html

And here is our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday September 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
    * Public bug-reporting pad:
        * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep

== Announcements ==

    * Filed several "First Contribution" tickets for rdsys:
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues
    * Let's use "Research" label for issues that have a research component to it
        * Helpful for students who are looking for projects.
    * Internews is organising a pluggable transport implementers meeting on Oct 12-16.
        * Attendance will be remote.
        * RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd778O0ChoPwvilhpSMUvufsfE-6HzkHtG6kO6aDWI8TcQiAg/viewform

== Discussion ==

    * Write occasional "tech talk"-style blog posts?
        * E.g. present rdsys's design and architecture.
        * May result in valuable feedback.

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==

    *

== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "HTTPT: A Probe-Resistant Proxy" on Sep 10
        * https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Frolov2020b.pdf
        * 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 (2020-09-10):
        * Wrote and published August 2020 team report.
            * https://blog.torproject.org/anti-censorship-august-2020
        * Signed up for a lightning talk for the pluggable transport implementers meeting.
            * Will present the design of rdsys and solicit feedback.
        * Worked with Hashik on getting his GSoC 2020 blog post published.
            * https://blog.torproject.org/gsoc-2020-snowflake-proxy-mobile
        * Sponsor 30 ticket and roadmap maintenance.
        * Created wiki page that summarises the process of writing our monthly report.
            * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Processes/Monthly-team-report
        * Proposed project ideas to a BSc student at my old college.
        * Lots of refactoring of rdsys.
            * Created an HTTP streaming interface that lets the backend notify distributors of changes to resources.
        * Realised that monit alerts didn't make it to mailing list because my mail provider classified them as spam.
            * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/issues/1
        * Read Sergey's HTTPT paper.
  Next week:
        * Wrap up a prototype of Salmon.
  Help with:
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/31874
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/31871

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-08-27
Last week:
    - deployed snowflake#40008
    - started snowflake measurements in china to track performance and censorship attempts (snowflake#32657)
    - continuous monitoring of NAT situation
    - prep for being away next month
    - meeting with tunnel bear
This week:
    - Away
Needs help with:
    - still need a review of fix for snowflake#21314 (snowflake!9)

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: 2020-06-11
    Last week:
        -
    Next week:
        - follow ups to #33365
        - start on #31201
    Help with:
        -

dcf: 2020-09-10
    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:2020-09-03
    Last week:
        -Nothing to add for last week
    Next week:
        -Finish #34318
        -Look into #31873
    Help with:
        -

hanneloresx: 2020-09-03
    Last week:
    Next week:
        - Start on #33727
        - Continue investigating and respond to comments on #32117
    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: 2020-08-27
    This week:
            - GSoC blog
    Next week:
            - Away on exams
    Help with: -