[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 13 May 2021

Thu May 13 16:51:00 UTC 2021

Hey everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-13-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday May 13th 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 ==

== Discussion ==

    gitweb <--> gitlab mirrors:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/7

    live discussion desired re snowflake rendezvous message redesign?yeah!

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/36

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

== 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 2020-05-13
Last week:
    - default branch changes on anti-censorship team repos (team#6)
    - opened a ticket for setting up gitolite and gitlab mirrors (team#7)
    - opened a ticket for documenting our workflow (team#8)
    - reviewed bridgedb!16
    - wrote up instructions for running a snowflake proxy for community
web pages (web/community#203)
    - s28 integration work
    - revised and merged snowflake PT v2 Go API work (snowflake#40036)
    - merged and deployed fix for goroutine leaks in snowflake server
(snowflake#40033)
    - fixed a CI issue in snowflake
    - reviewed bridgedb!17
    - starting estimating and mapping out work needed to make a Conjure PT
This week:
    - revise snowflake!36
    - more performance investigations for snowflake#40026
    - rdsys + bridgedb integration (rdsys#12)
    - install our snowflake app on android and try it out for a few days
    - more work in snowflake standalone proxy documentation
(snowflake#40031)
Needs help with:
    - review of bridgedb#32276 (moat shim based off goptlib)

arlolra: 2020-10-29

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - getting back up to speed

    - follow ups to #33365

    - start on #31201

    Help with:

    -

dcf: 2021-05-13

    Last week:

    - snowflake CDN bookkeeping
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs

    - more review of PT v2 patch
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/31

    - reviewed switching broker messages to JSON
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/36

    Next week:

    - main branch name change in goptlib
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/6

    Help with:

Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:

agix:2021-05-13

    Last week:

    -Busy with university stuff

    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:

    -

maxb: 2021-04-29

    Last week:

    - Busy w/ life and new job, but been looking at
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25595
and working on a Docker-based network testbed POC

    Next week:

    - Really want to have a POC to show/get feedback on

meskio: 2021-05-13

    Last week:

    - Getting access to ssh and first pushes to bridgedb

    - reading about salmon/rBridge

    - bridgedb distribute obfs4 by default (bridgedb#40011)

    - bridgedb send qr codes over email (bridgedb#40008)

    Next week:

    - release bridgedb

    - CPU issue with snowflake/probetest (snowflake#40039)

    - start work with conjure

    Help with:

    -

HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -