Anti-censorship meeting notes, 1 October 2020

Hey everyone! Here are the meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-01-15.58.html And the meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday October 1st 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?sc... 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&s... 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 == Kyle MacMillan, Jordan Holland, and Prateek Mittal published a report on Snowflake distinguishability. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03254 == Discussion == How can we improve our terminology for bridges? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/8 == 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. phw: This week (2020-10-01): Reviewed antonela's Tor Browser design proposal for better circumvention. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-spec/-/issues/400... Helping out with DRL grant application. More work on rdsys; thinking about how feedback loop for blocked bridges should be handled. Wrapped up bridgestrap MVP. Next week: Help with: cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-10-01 Last week: - finished preparations for next sponsor 28 evaluation of snowflake - reviewed bridgedb#31871 - reviewed anti-censorship/trac#31874 - implemented fix for snowflake#33157 - checked on tests running for snowflake#32657 This week: - revisit multiplexing ticket - revisit NAT-punching problems for symmetric NATs - write up collected snowflake throughput data from last month and draw some useful conclusions - catch up on rdsys work - follow up with guardian project on their snowflake integration work Needs help with: - review of snowflake!12 - review of snowflake-webext!4 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: 2020-10-01 Last week: - merged a patch from Peter Gerber to expand the set of IP addresses Snowflake considers local (for stripping from SDP offers) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Azure CDN bookkeeping Next week: Help with: - is anything further needed for Azure CDN account access? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... 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:2020-10-01 Last week: -Still on #34218 (Should finish it soon though) -Started with #5 (rdsys) -Read this weeks paper Next week: -Finish both tickets Help with: - hanneloresx: 2020-09-17 Last week: - Start on #33727 - Continue investigating and respond to comments on #32117 Next week: - Continue last week's work. 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: -
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Cecylia Bocovich