[tor-project] Anti-censorship team monthly report: May 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone!

This is what we've been up to in May!

May 2021 monthly report

Snowflake
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* Snowflake now implements the PTv2 Go API specification
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40036

* Fixed a goroutine leak causing memory problems in the Snowflake server
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40033

* Fixed a CPU issue with Snowflake on the probetest service
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40039

* Improved our standalone proxy setup documentation
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/issues/203

BridgeDB
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* Send QR codes for bridges over email
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40008

* Have BridgeDB distribute obfs4 bridges by default
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40011

* Fix an HTML injection vulnerability in the HTTPS distributor
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40014

* Setup Gitlab CI
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/40012

Other
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* meskio has joined our team as a new full-time anti-censorship developer!

* We posted a report on the censorship of Tor in Belarus:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/blob/main/reports/2020/belarus/2020-belarus-report.md

* We're starting work on a new Conjure PT for Tor!
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/9
https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Frolov2019b.pdf