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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 1 Aug 2019
by Philipp Winter 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Here are our meeting notes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-08-01-17.00.log… And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday August 1st 17:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 17:00 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: https://storm.torproject.org/shared/knaG2lEzepdsCC21DYk4dD4hRtwcUGnXQvalH1s… * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. * Note that there's a bug that causes the roadmap to load slowly. To work around it, first click on "All boards", and then on "ROADMAP Anti-censorship team" * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/anti-censorship/gettor/boards * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… --------------------------- ---- 1st August 2019 ---- --------------------------- == Announcements == * == Discussion == * Gettor seems to be down #31307 * Roadmap: how are we doing? Is everybody ok for me to organize it in gitlab instead of storm? * trac updated it under keyword anti-censorship-roadmap: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=accepted&status=assig… == Actions == * == Interesting links == * https://davidschinazi.github.io/masque-drafts/draft-schinazi-masque.html * We should at least follow the standardisation process. == Updates == FORMAT! Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with. hiro: (gettor days are Thursday) This week: Next week: Past week: phw: This week (2019-08-01): * Filed #31250 for snowflake. * Filed #31252 for snowflake. * Reviewed Tor Research Safety Board submission. * Proof-read Roger's DEFCON slides. * Revised BridgeDB patch for #9316 and sent summary of preliminary results to tor-dev@. * Inspired by Karsten's feedback, thought about how to implement aggregate statistics. * Got the commit bit for the website and updated obfs4 setup guide. * Added a work-in-progress wiki page on retiring pluggable transports: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/PluggableTransports/Guide… * Read new IETF MASQUE proposal and subscribed to their mailing list: * Here's a summary: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2019-July/00002… * Started working on improving flow obfuscation in obfs4: * Realised that obfs4's iat=1 mode sends 1350-byte (instead of 1500-byte) packets on both Linux and Windows? Trying to figure out why. * A little bit more work in improving PT spec based on the issues we collected: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29285#comment:5 Next week: Help with: Gaba: (updated August 1st) Last week (): * off-line This week (planned): * hopefully will get into the roadmap * hopefully move forward organizing s30 ahf Last week: - Worked on #28930 This week: - Finished refactoring parts of #28930. Trying to figure out if we should begin the discussion on how PT's can report back on bootstrap info. - Continued to work on a tool to convert Trac tickets into Gitlab tickets. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-08-01 (will try to attend, but at CLSI) Last week: - CLSI (31 July - 2 Aug) - talk preparation - checked on pion proxy and made progress towards windows build - review of #27385 and merges - review of some racecar reports/documents This week: - going to be on vacation Aug 5 - Aug 7 - snowflake dogfood - finish windows build of pion branch (#28942 and #28942) - sequencing layer for snowflake (#29206) Help with: catalyst: week of 07/11 (actual): - Stockholm meeting week of 07/18 (actual): - recovering from travel week of 07/25 (planned): - recovering from travel - mostly sponsor31 - preparing for extended leave starting 07/29 arlolra: 2019-08-01 Last week: - review of #31170 - deployed #27385 Next week: - revisions to #30310 - start looking at the suggestions in #31109 - add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake - maybe more review of #31170 Help with: - dcf: 2019-08-01 Last week: - merged some refactoring for Snowflake dark mode (#31170) - reviewed proxy deadlock fix (#31100) Next week: - finish Snowflake dark mode (#31170) Help with:

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June and July 2019 report for the UX team
by Antonela Debiasi 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Hello Tor, S27 - Onion Services ================ - We continued working with onionsites authentication. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30237 - We shared working time with Tor Browser and Network developers during the dev meeting to discuss our next steps on this project. You can follow our design exploration by reading the relevant tickets or sneak peeking here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/30281/O2.pdf S9 - User Research =============== - Gus and Narrira have been traveling through Uganda and Kenya during June and July. With these travels, we consolidated our relationship with partners in the global south community to follow our work on the next sponsor year. - We shared our first Persona work during the dev meeting. It is one of the first steps to introduce human-centered design practices on our workflow. If you didn't make the session, you could see our presentation and downloads here https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/wiki/org/meetings/2019S… https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30430 - During the dev meeting, we distributed a survey to collect feedback about Tor Browser Usage. We will be sharing the results with the lists soonish. Also, we want to collect this kind of feedback from the broad community, so we are planning to extend this survey online. S30 - Snowflake ============ - The anti-censorship team is working on the Snowflake web extension. We worked the user interface and other design deliverables. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23888 OONI Explorer =========== - We were working on reach the stable release for the new OONI Explorer. We have been polishing UI and UX tickets. You can play with the beta here https://explorer-beta.ooni.io - All the tickets we have been working on are here https://github.com/ooni/explorer/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue+label%3… Fundraising ========= - We gave support to the Fundraising team on the Bug Smash Fund and Defenders of Privacy campaigns. We provide visuals for the various platforms used for promoting them. - We published a fundraising banner at the latest Tor Browser release. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30577 Thanks, A -- Antonela Debiasi UX Team Lead @antonela E2330A6D1EB5A0C8 https://torproject.org

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Smashing all the bugs
by Stephanie A. Whited 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

** *Hello Tor! * * Today we launched our Bug Smash Fund. Through the month of August, all donations the Tor Project receives will be marked to help us smash bugs and respond rapidly to critical security issues. Many of you have experienced why we need such a fund: this kind of work is not usually covered by sponsors or grants, so we have to divert time and funds when these kind of things happen. And we know that they will happen. So this month is an opportunity to help us prepare for smashing the bugs ahead. If you’re able to make a donation, you can do so at https://donate.torproject.org We’re reaching out to community members, press, and influencers to spread the word, and we could use your help spreading the word, too. If you are on Twitter, you can help by sharing the blog post[1], writing a tweet using one of the graphics Antonela made (which you can find on the blog and our tweets) and using the hashtag #TorBugSmash, or just by liking or RTing our posts[2] or any other positive mentions. Talking about the fund IRL with someone close to you works great, too. If you feel comfortable, writing a post that mentions your involvement can have more impact than one without. You could write something like: “Bugs happen. I’ve worked on fixing them with @torproject, and we know there will be more. You can help us be prepared for what bugs may come by making a donation this month. All donations will go towards smashing bugs. #TorBugSmash https://donate.torproject.org” As always, I’ll be watching for posts from the Tor community to engage with and support. If there’s anything related to this campaign or our work in general that I’ve missed or would be relevant for us to share, please let me know. I’m also happy to talk over something you’re considering posting if you want feedback. You can DM @torproject or me personally @walnutwordsalad, send me an email, or ping me on IRC (stephw). Cheers! Steph [1] https://blog.torproject.org/tors-bug-smash-fund-help-tor-smash-all-bugs [2] https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1156910864391262208 * -- Stephanie A. Whited Communications Director The Tor Project IRC: stephw PGP Fingerprint: E976 9771 7D46 2E63 9697 9F6D 6D6B 72C3 39A8 76AD <https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6D6B72C339A876AD>

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