[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 March 18

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-03-18-15.57.html

and our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday March 18th 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

    Public bug-reporting pad:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have
anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to
include.


== Announcements ==

    Cure53 is currently doing a security audit of the Turbo Tunnel parts
of Snowflake.


== Discussion ==

    AlwaysLivid has some updates on Tor Browser distribution work

    gtsatsis has started developing a Signal bot for distributing
binaries of the Tor Browser

    https://gitlab.com/gtsatsis/signal-gettor

    (Idea from a friend of AlwaysLivid, which they have also thought of
beforehand: Distributing binaries of gettor via decentralized VPN-based
networks, such as Lokinet, Zeronet, or dn42.)

    downloads.json shenanigans? (Some tickets have already been opened,
- AlwaysLivid)


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40110


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40254


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40380

    Using the Matrix platform and bridges as a unified, perhaps
temporary means of distributing links with minimal maintenance? Bonus:
No Twitter bot rewrites, and writing different bots for platforms where
uploading binaries isn't possible.


== Actions ==



== Interesting links ==


https://www.cnet.com/news/china-appears-to-be-blocking-signal-messaging-app-report-says/


== 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.


cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-03-18
Last week:
    - mostly just sponsor28 prep of snowflake
    - talked with nickm and started thinking about what PTv2/3 spec
support in Snowflake would look like (snowflake#40036)
    - lots of meetings
    - discussed finding volunteers to run private bridges (bridgedb#40010)
This week:
    - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12)
    - follow up on bridge bridge situation
    - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026
    - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days
    - prepare snowflake for sponsor 28 evaluations
    - follow up on pending reviews
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: 2021-03-18

    Last week:

    - upgraded tor on the Snowflake bridge for a security vulnerability
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40034

    - reviewed merge request to reduce spurious error logging in
snowflake server
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/30

    - commented on snowflake server stale OR connections
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40035

    Next week:

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-03-18

    Last week:

    -Been busy with university stuff for the last few weeks

    Next week:

    -Work on bridgebox for rdsys

    -More research on httpt #4

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-3-4

    Last week:

    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14

    Next week:

    - Finish bridgestrap #14

    - Find new issue to work on

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -