[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 11 February 2021

Sun Feb 14 15:49:21 UTC 2021

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-11-15.58.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday February 11th16:00 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
    <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
    <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home>

  * Past meeting notes can be found at:

  * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/
    <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

<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/4>

  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7
    <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7>

  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5
    <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5>

  * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6
    <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6>

  * Sponsor 28

  * must-do tickets:
    https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10
    <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

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None>%5b%5d

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None>=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None

<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
    <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
    <https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep>

== Announcements ==

  * Research ideas page:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-ideas/

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-ideas/>

== Discussion ==

  * What are the FAQs?

  *
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/7

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/7>

== Actions ==

  *

== Interesting links ==

  * Signal simple TLS proxy:
    https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/
    <https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/>

  * Interesting approach to the proxy distribution problem: post
    #IRanASignalProxy and wait for people to DM you

  * https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech
    <https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech>

  * Experimental source dump for pluggable transport for signal-desktop

  * https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ
    <https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ>

  * Pluggable Transports spec v2.2 Draft 1

== Reading group ==

  * We will discuss""

  * 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.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-02-11
Last week:
    - so many meetings
    - finished working on a snowflake survey (snowflake#40007)
    - lots of hiring things
    - looked into network simulation for analyzing snowflake performance
issues (snowflake#40026)
    - worked on connecting bridgedb to rdsys backend (rdsys#12)
    - sponsor 28 evaluation prep
    - made a research ideas wiki page
    - meeting with grad student to talk about reputation-based bridge
distribution project
    - debugged an issue with bridgedb not reporting obfs4 bridges
(bridgedb#40006)
This week:
    - integrate gettor and rdsys (rdsys#32)
    - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12)
    - sponsor 28 meetings
    - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026)
    - debug lack of bridgedb IPv6 obfs4 bridges (bridgedb#40006)
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2020-10-29

  * Last week:

  * -

  * Next week:

  * - getting back up to speed

  * - follow ups to #33365

  * - start on #31201

  * Help with:

  * -

dcf:2021-02-11

  * Last week:

  * - opened a ticket to update links in Snowflake webextension
    description

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/22

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/22>

  * - updated bug reporting instructions on the Snowflake wiki page

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/21#note_2724820

<https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/21#note_2724820>

  * Next week:

  * Help with:

Antonela: 2020-08-27

  * This week:

  *

agix:2021-01-28

  * Last week:

  * -Research on httpt #4

  * Next week:

  * -(For sure) finish rdsys #6

  * Help with:

  * -

hanneloresx: 2021-2-11

  * Last week:

  * - Finished emma #6

  * Next week:

  * - Workon bridgestrap #14

  * Help with:

  * -

HashikD: 2021-01-22

  * Thisweek:

  * -

  * Next week:

  * -

  * Help with: -