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Network Team Meeting Notes, 18 November 2019
by Alexander Færøy 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hello, Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Monday the 18th of November: 1) We started out by looking at the 0.4.2 status page on Trac to see how we are doing there. Everybody should go over their 0.4.2 tickets and figure out which ones they want to do for 0.4.2 or postpone them to 0.4.3. 2) We went over our Kanban board. 3) Gaba will send out an email about roadmapping in December. 4) We went over our review queue. 5) We talked about our C code style survey. 6) Nobody had anything else to discuss this week :-) --- end of summary --- You can read today's network team meeting log at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-18-17.59.html Below are the contents of our meeting pad: teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 11 November (planned): Take Time for: - catching up on emails - Fix #30901 - we missed some config bugs last week, because stem always fails in CI Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Fix bugs - Do more modularisation (#31851 / #29211) Other: - Helping with Android issues - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews Week of 11 November (actual): Urgent: - Fix Appveyor CI failure #32449 Take Time for: - Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Fix the obsolete option message in 0.4.2 #32295 - Add extra config tests #32451 - Disable "Phase 0" code in the relay module #32163 #32244 #32245 - Start on "Phase 1" - Code and design reviews - Better tooling for finding unused headers #32522 Other: - Code reviews & ticket triage Week of 18 November (planned): Take Time for: - Write relay/dirauth modules, tooling, and testing parts of s31 report (Deadline: 30 Nov?) - catching up on emails Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Modularisation dependency tooling (#32522) - Do more modularisation (#31851 / #29211) - Sponsor 31 code reviews Other: - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews Nick: Week of 11 November (planned): - Short week because of holiday. - Catch up with reviews. - Catch up with documentation: 32209 (config), 32207 (pubsub), 29214 (continued subsuming of tor-guts). - Finish 32427 (refactor options_act_reversible). - Regression analysis on 041-regression,042-regression tickets. - 0.4.2.4-rc release. - Time permitting (haha): 32139 (configuration isolation for directory authority options) - Time permitting (haha): 32408 (refactor new options_act_reversible into new system.) Week of 11 November (actual): - Revised lots of code - Finished subsuming tor-guts into doxygen - Released 0.4.2.4-rc - Wrote several pieces of documentation for new-architecture stuff (config, pubsub, initialization) - Circulated example branches for several tools. Week of 18 November (planned): - More documentation work. - Finish 32427 (refactor options_act_reversible). - 32139 (configuration isolation for directory authority options) - 32408 (refactor new options_act_reversible into new system.) - Regression analysis on 041-regression,042-regression tickets?? Mike: Week of 11/06 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Week of 11/06 (actual): - Refactored circpad simulator; fixed some simulator bugs+issues; a few more remain - See: https://github.com/pylls/circpad-sim (and https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/tor/tree/circpad-sim-v2) Week of 11/11 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Need help with/at risk of dropping this month: - Deep-thought-required research project followup - (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's Mozilla video, etc etc...) catalyst: week of 11/11 (2019-W46) (planned): - Monday is a public holiday - reviews - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff - work on splitting out torrc(5) manpage for swati to work on - other GSoD stuff as needed - monitor C style thread and respond as needed week of 11/11 (2019-W46) (actual): - reviews - checked in with swati re GSoD stuff - looked into build system support for manpage splitting week of 11/18 (2019-W47) (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff - GSoD stuff as needed help with: - would like to hear feedback about whether to split torrc options out of the tor(1) manpage (non-torrc command line options would remain in tor(1)). i think teor might have opionions on this? asn: Week of 12/11 (planned): - Review atagar's descriptor encoding branch and make it work with OBv3. - If possible, write test vectors for descriptor encoding/decoding when stem support stabilizes. - Move forward with core OBv3 work. - Reviews as usual. Week of 12/11 (actual): - HSv3 descriptor encoding is merged in stem by atagar! https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31823#comment:10 - Initial core onionbalance work has been pushed to github: https://github.com/asn-d6/onionbalance/tree/v3_dev_wip This is still WIP and heavily under development. I just needed a place to backup my code. - A bit of all around onion service strategizing after OTF. - Did reviews/merges. Week of 18/11 (actual): - Review atagar's HSv3 descriptor encoding work. - Write test vectors for HSv3 descriptor encoding/decoding as stem support stabilizes. ahf: Week of 11 November (planned): - Shadow Simulation Developer things - Get back to #28930. - Figure out with Swati how things are going there. - Retrospective. Week of 11 November (actually): - Retrospective - Lots of Shadow Simulation Developer CVs to read and make up my mind about. - Meeting with on GSoD stuff - thanks to catalyst for running that! - Harvest, FnF reimbursement stuff - Looked at the C code style work Week of 18 November (planned): - Shadow Simulation developer decisions/next step/interview questions - S28 tickets. - Friday is the "big day" for trying out a complete Gitlab migration to see if things go well - Catch up on things I missed to do last week. dgoulet: Week of 12/11 (actual): - s27: Revisions on #30382 that was merged this morning \o/. - s27: Started revision on #31561 but did not finished. - Email storm of all sorts last week. - Reviews/Merges. - Off for half a day due to ETOOTIRED :S Week of 18/11 (actual): - MUST finalize #31561. - Assess our remaining s27 -must ticket and see what can be closed, triaged better, postponned or not and cleaned up for upstream merge. - #30382 is now merged, we have 3 remaining tickets attached to it, one to review from asn and two others to make patches before the first 043 release. - Try to put in an hour or two on a CFP for a technical conference (Netdev Conf). - Come up with a decision on #29698 on postpone or merge as is or work harder on unit tests. - Again, maybe I can try to fix #32388. -- Alexander Færøy

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October 2019 report for the UX team
by Antonela Debiasi 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Hello Tor, Tor Browser 9.0 Release ======================= We released Tor Browser 9 in October. We worked in improvements around the New Identity feature, opened a panel in about:preferences#Tor to configure the Tor Network, updated the toolbar by removing the Tor icon as part of the proposal 101, and also we started to give support to the dark theme for darkness fans. If you have any feedback, feel welcome to start a conversation on the ux team list. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-90 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-browser-spec.git/tree/proposals/101-secur… https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ux User Research ============= The community team has been working on having community.torproject.org in shape, and so we did with our open research methodologies. Nah updated the user research guidelines and listed our past efforts to make them available for the broad community. We also included the latest versions of the Tor Personas made by Duncan. https://community.torproject.org/user-research We worked on improving the New Identity feature in Tor Browser 9, for so we also collected feedback about it. Nah ran user research with students at the University of Sao Paulo, and we have a lot of great material to discuss for the next iteration. https://nc.riseup.net/s/CkfH4nxrkmGL58K?path=%2FUser%20Research%2F2019%2FBr… <https://nc.riseup.net/s/CkfH4nxrkmGL58K?path=%2FUser%20Research%2F2019%2FBr…> Onion Services ============== As part of the OTF grant, one of the end-users improvements is focused on client-side onion service errors. With the network team, we have been listing the different error scenarios users could experience while reaching onion services. Also, we discussed how to show them to users in a way that is 1. informative and 2. if it is available, allow them to take a recovery path. You can see some UI explorations here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/19251#comment:6 Fundraising =========== The Fundraising team launched the end of the year raising funds campaign during October. The topic this year is "Take back the internet." We worked on developing the art concept, Alon worked on the illustrations, and I delivered the different assets to support this campaign. https://marvelapp.com/7f6eha5/screen/62492102 Open Team ========= The UX Team roadmap kanban breathes here: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/ux/-/boards If you missed those, October weekly meetings notes are here: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-October/000464.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-October/000465.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-October/000466.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-October/000467.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2019-October/000468.html Peace and love, A -- Antonela Debiasi UX Team Lead @antonela E2330A6D1EB5A0C8 https://torproject.org

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Notes from Vegas Meeting NOVEMBER 21 2019
by Erin Wyatt 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Vegas Team Meeting Notes NOVEMBER 21 2019: ** NOTE: No Vegas meeting next Thursday, November 28th, in observance of U.S. Thanksgiving holiday. + OLD BUSINESS - There is a conversation about onion services in a mail thread and the possible creation of a "onion ops team”. Plan: sysrqb will move conversation to email; will put together a proposed plan and send it to vegas-team. + NEW BUSINESS - Sarah: Anyone else willing to make a thank-you video? If yes, contact Sarah ASAP at sstevenson@. - Roger: we should make a list of things that want isa's attention, to help her prioritize when she returns. (Done.) + GENERAL NOTES Philipp: 1. Collection of Snowflake proxy metrics 2. More work on (GetTor) storage limits when saving Tor Browser copies in GitHub 3. More grant writing 4. Created monthly report 5. Finished improving docker image for obfs4 bridges Gus: 1. Did a Tor talk in Roma last Saturday and in UNITO (University of Turin) last Tuesday. 2. We had a meeting with Colombia training partner. 3. Answered some RT/Frontdesk tickets. 4. Finished Community Team October report. Georg: 1. Help with OTF proposal 2. More HackerOne housekeeping 3. Trying to wrap up all my Tor Browser must-items Antonela: 1. Reducing my email backlog after vacations 2. Working on suggesting onions feature in Tor Browser with acat 3. Delivering remaining assets for the end of the year campaign 4. If you need anything urgent from me, please ping me Steph: 1. Eoy Campaign: blog post editing, thank you card, video 2. Newsletter going out today 3. Bottlepay promotion with the Giving Block 4. Pili and I will apply to OTF Learning Lab Anarcat: 1. OONI.tpo now moved out of TPO infrastructure (hosted at netlify) and closed some related accounts (https://bugs.torproject.org/31718) 2. we will need to work on onboarding/offboarding procedures (https://bugs.torproject.org/32519) and especially "what happens to email when people leave" (https://bugs.torproject.org/32558) 3. worked more on Nginx status dashboards to ensure we have good response latency and rates (we're good) 4. reconfirmed mailing list problems as related to DMARC, may hopefully be resolved by next week (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29770) 5. wrote a Postfix mail log parser (in lnav) to diagnose email issues in the mail server 6. helped with the deployment of a ZNC bouncer for IRC users (https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32532) along with fixes to the "mosh" configuration 7. usual grind (email aliases, memory limits on git.tpo, old machine cleanup) 8. TPA meeting coming up on monday Gaba: 1. Reports for S31, SV 2. Helping with grants writing 3. Sponsor 30 follow up 4. talked at seagl last friday 5. scalability meeting today where Rob and Dennis showed some results of experiments. Meeting notes are public in the mailing list. Roger: 0) Most importantly: it's still Oct 31 in my mailbox. I am not even keeping up with each day's new mail now, much less making progress at the backlog. 1) Events: - finished my november burst of events: otf summit and satellite meetings, race pi meeting, 'going dark' debate, cdt keynote. tonight i do a tor lecture at nyu. - i re-contacted the fosdem booth person 2) Funding/Funders: - helped steer the upcoming nsf phantom/snowflake proposal - we now have a shared plan for the shadow dev spot - still spending much of my time thinking about race - thanks, gaba, for taking the lead on our sponsorV report bullet points - we're asking otf learning lab for help 3) Other: - do we have the start of an invite list for the dev mtg? we should get that going. - steph and i helped oliver figure out his deutsche welle text. the text came out yesterday and looks good. we should push it more. - moving forward the "dv certs for onions" pitch to ca/b forum - stalled on enterprise onion service support group - to follow up on: accounts and email policy - i introduced george/david/alex to the ricochet-refresh team - still pending: doh blog post? - pending: reviewing our 2019 draft financials - we should make a list of things that want isa's attention, to help her prioritize when she returns. Sarah: 1. Catching up after vacation. 2. EOY campaign continuing to perform well. 3. Postal appeal letter went out thanks to Al and Jon. 4. Anyone else willing to make a thank-you video? Pili: 1. Reports, reports and more reports 2. Just about keeping up with trac triage 3. Meeting with Colombia Training Partner 4. Meeting about Tor Browser measurements 5. We were not accepted for a booth at FOSDEM :( 6. Participating in a panel about Big data and violence tomorrow Alex: 1. Roadmap coming for network team coming up in December. 2. Gitlab migration test run tomorrow Friday planned! 3. Done with reading over Shadow CVs. 4. Back to coding on some s28 tasks. 5. Planning a "run a relay at home" workshop with the IT union in Denmark for Q1 2020.t Nick: 1. Trying to catch up with email and a dozen other things. Please don't assume that I remember whatever I'm supposed to be doing for you; please feel free to bug me about it. 2. 0.4.2.4-rc is out; the time to report bugs is NOW. If none are found, we might actually put 0.4.2.x-stable ahead of schedule (!). Erin: 1. Shadow dev hiring process 2. Org/corp/general HR stuff 3. Working on handbook clarifications this week Matt: 1. OTF proposal 2. Catchup from last week (was at Fastly event) 3. Tor Browser development Karsten: 1. Got new exit scanner to write properly formatted exit lists and completed an initial review of their correctness.

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Anti-censorship meeting notes, 21 Nov 2019
by Philipp Winter 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-21-17.59.html And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday November 21st 18:00 UTC Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 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://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project… * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&componen… * Projects from sponsors we are working on: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 --------------------------- --- 21st November 2019 --- --------------------------- == Announcements == * == Discussion == * Gettor update * Survival guide here: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor… * what is the main gettor repo? seems like hiro's is ahead of https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor * Since #29207, we have only about 40 proxies, down from about 400: https://snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com/debug * Is it the case that 90% of our former proxies were not able to auto-update after the backward-incompatible change of #29207, or is there another explanation? Were those 90% all Cupcake proxies? == Actions == * == Interesting links == * https://censoredplanet.org/russia - report/paper on network censorship in Russia * https://www.cnet.com/features/in-iran-bypassing-online-censors-with-satelli… censorship circumvention system that broadcasts files over satellite tv == 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: Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation phw: This week (2019-11-21): * Created and published monthly team report for October * Finished prototype for PT test tool (#31874) * Uses Yawning's bulb library to have Tor's control protocol tell us if bridge bootstrapped fine * Worked on understanding Internet shutdown in Iran * There was/is limited circumvention opportunity over VPSes in Iran, and DNS tunnels * Started process for adding new default bridge (#32547) * Attended grant writing meeting * (Almost) finished improving our obfs4 bridge docker container (#31834) * Added script "get-bridge-line" to easily get a container's bridge line * Made container permanently store tor's data directory Next week: * Help with: * Gaba: (updated October 30th) Last week (): * sponsor 30 This week (planned): * grants writing cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-11-21 Last week: - made #32545 for measuring snowflake network health and started investigating onionperf - wrote a script to upload tor browser releases for #32480 - have proxies report what kind they are to broker #31157 - more grant writing - reviewed #31834 and #32465 - looked into adding more STUN servers to snowflake (#30579) - ongoing help with iran internet blackout situation This week: - finish snowflake test coverage (#29259) - more grant writing - continue on #29206 and #25723 - continue on snowflake health (#32545) - investigate windows issue (#31971) - update github gettor links (#32393) - gettor reviews Help with: - review of #32480 (gettor) - review of #31157 (snowflake) - an authentication token for torproject-pusher and put it somewhere safe (outside the git repo) on gettor-01 (hiro?) - some input on the privacy implications of #30579 (snowflake stun servers) arlolra: 2019-11-14 Last week: - finished off / merged #31028 Next week: - add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake #32499 - read up on turbo tunnel - Help with: - dcf: 2019-11-21 Last week: - deployed the hosted Snowflake proxy 0.1.0 (#29207) - switched to the new IPv6 broker (#29258) - prototyping QUIC in meek Next week: - decomission old broker (#32502) - prototyping QUIC in meek Help with:

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Campaign Update and Request
by Sarah Stevenson 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hello Tor! As you know, our EOY campaign, Take back the internet with Tor, launched this past Monday. We are seeing great engagement and have raised over $20,000 so far. In addition to almost 500 single gifts, we have had 24 people sign up as new recurring donors. This is all without the campaign content on about:tor <about:tor> which launches next Monday. Last year we launched all the content on the same day and we received 100 fewer gifts in the first four days than we received this Monday through Thursday. Help us keep up this momentum by sharing the campaign content with your networks. Many thanks to the 'money machine’, Steph, Jon, Antonela, Alon, and the Tor Browser and Metrics teams for working on different aspects of the campaign. Now I have a specific request. The week of US Thanksgiving, we are going to post a series of ‘thank you’ videos on social media. We would love to have a variety of languages represented in these videos. Isa put together two rough examples so you can have a sense of what we are looking for. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YshJnLIhxgTS-62XAFhjYKV_M7W3jbJe/view?usp=… <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YshJnLIhxgTS-62XAFhjYKV_M7W3jbJe/view?usp=…> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nq3QXr9uxGyyC7uMCl1Nk1-9j6P1JgQf/view?usp=… <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nq3QXr9uxGyyC7uMCl1Nk1-9j6P1JgQf/view?usp=…> If you would like to participate, please let me know. Have a wonderful weekend! Sarah Sarah Stevenson (she/her) Fundraising Director The Tor Project sstevenson(a)torproject.org Take back the internet with Tor. https://donate.torproject.org/ Public Key: 93B3 AC08 4257 FA3D D4BB 8E95 CC08 5DBA C015 612A

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Community Team report for October 2019
by gus 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Hi, Here's Community Team report for October 2019. Weekly meetings, every Monday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC. Outreachy and Documentation =========================== In October the Tor Project applied to participate in the Outreachy round that runs December to March 2020. At least 30 applicants contacted the Community Team to introduce themselves and start contributing to the project "Help Tor Project support our users". We wrote a newcomer guide <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/Outreachy#Newcomerguide> and explained our documentation and support workflow. Applicants answered users in informal support channels (i.e, Reddit), joined us on IRC and our weekly meetings. :D It was a very busy month and we had many documentation tickets fixed. The new Outreachy intern will be announced by the end of November and will be mentored by Gus. Sponsor work ============ This month we continued to work to get partners to sign the partnership contract. We're helping them to organize the first round of Tor trainings in their cities, and sharing our training materials. At the moment we have at least one partner for each country that we visited in the last year. We also updated the training material after Tor Browser 9 release. Antonela, Gaba and Gus met to discuss Sponsor30 and Community+UX teams activities. Besides running bridges and talking with more volunteers, we would like to have some activities with other digital security trainers and users in general to understand how they learn and get bridges. Relevant ticket: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31870> User feedback and support ========================= After Tor Browser 9 release, users contacted us and asked about: - Letterboxing: <https://support.torproject.org/tbb/maximized-torbrowser-window/> Ticket: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32324> - Windows: api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.dll is missing - <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32327> - Black screen in some Linux distros: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32215> - Translation issues in Tor Browser for Android. Outreach ======== - Pili and Brabo are organizing Tor Project and more privacy activities in FOSDEM, wiki page: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/meetings/2020Brussels>. [CFP] Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom @ FOSDEM 2020, deadline for talks - 1 Dec 2019: <https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002903.html>. - (Mexico City) Carlos held a workshop about Tails and Tor at UAM university: <http://multimedia.xoc.uam.mx/index.php/13a-semana-de-la-cultura-digital-en-…> good news is that 25 computers in the library now have Tor Browser installed, which used to have only adobe and apple software. - (Naples) Gus talked about Tor "Aromi e lacrime del routing cipolla", at MSAck.org hacklab: <https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-aromi-e-lacrime-del-routing-cipolla-…> - (London) Mozfest: Pili, Gaba, Hiro, Nah and many Tor friends went to Mozfest: <https://blog.torproject.org/events/mozfest-london> - (Bern) Ahf talked at Swiss Web Security Day: <https://blog.torproject.org/events/swiss-web-security-day-bern> - (Taipei) Roger talked at Tor Sharing: <https://blog.torproject.org/events/tor-sharing-taipei> - Global South monthly IRC meeting happened Oct 30th: <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/global-south/2019-October/000266.html> Next Global South meeting scheduled @ 29 November, 1600 UTC, #tor-south Meta ==== Meeting notes * Community Team Meeting Notes - 07 Oct 2019 - <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/0003…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 14 Oct 2019 - <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/0003…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 21 Oct 2019 - <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-October/0003…> * Community Team Meeting Notes - 28 Oct 2019 - <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-community-team/2019-November/000…>

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FOSDEM 2020: Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom CFP
by Pili Guerra 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share the CFP[1] for the Decentralized Internet & Privacy devroom at FOSDEM 2020. We look forward to reading your proposals. Thanks! Pili [1] https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2019q4/002903.html — Project Manager: Tor Browser, UX and Community teams pili at torproject dot org gpg 3E7F A89E 2459 B6CC A62F 56B8 C6CB 772E F096 9C45

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Network Team Meeting Notes, 12 November 2019
by Alexander Færøy 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

Hello, Here is a short summary of the network team meeting from Wednesday: 1) We started out by looking at the 0.4.2 status page on Trac to see how we are doing there. #31653 and #31002 was moved to 0.4.3. 2) We went over our Kanban board. 3) We went over our review queue. 4) We talked about proposing the use of 'network-team' as highlight on IRC to other teams. Nick will bring it to the vegas meeting. 5) Alex requested help with getting someone else to take over the PR policy work since he keeps pushing it down his todo list. We decided to bring this up again next week and ideally that Nick and Alex might work on this together. 6) We talked about moving all our doc/HACKING documents into being Doxygen format. People seemed positive about this. 7) Catalyst requested for more feedback on their proposal for C style. 8) We talked about splitting the tor man page into two manpages: one for tor and one for torrc. 9) Nobody had anything else to discuss. --- end of summary --- You can read today's network team meeting log at: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-12-17.59.html Below are the contents of our meeting pad: gaba: (updated on october 30th) Last week (actual): nc migration sponsors grant proposals This week (planned): report on sponsor 31 Help with: teor: (online first week of the month, offline at the usual meeting time) Week of 4 November (actual): Take Time for: - team policies: - commit bit - backports Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Merged Disable major relay and dirauth options, when those modules are disabled #32213 - Merged associated bug fixes #32368 #32370 #32371 - Fixed more bugs #32410 - Add NSS (and lzma and zstd) support to test_parseconf.sh #32397 - Associated bug fixes - Code reviews and merges Other: - Helping with Android issues - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews - Helped out at a local Aaron Swartz Day CryptoBar - gave away some Tor stickers Week of 11 November (planned): Take Time for: - catching up on emails - Fix #30901 - we missed some config bugs last week, because stem always fails in CI Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Fix bugs - Do more modularisation (#31851 / #29211) Other: - Helping with Android issues - Bug fixes, ticket triage, and quick reviews - Helped out at a local Aaron Swartz Day CryptoBar - gave away some Tor stickers Week of 11 November (actual): Urgent: - Fix Appveyor CI failure #32449 Take Time for: - Roadmap: - Sponsor 31 modularisation: - Fix the obsolete option message in 0.4.2 #32295 - Add extra config tests #32451 - Disable "Phase 0" code in the relay module #32163 #32244 #32245 - Start on "Phase 1" - Code and design reviews Other: - Code reviews & ticket triage Nick: Week of 4 November (planned): - S31 meeting - Doxygen work, tor-guts work. (#29214) - Write a lot of documentation for #29215 - More #30866 work; try to get it merged - Start revisions on paper with Ian & Chelsea? - Plan for upcoming stable releases. Week of 4 November (actual): - Doxygen work, and lots of it. - Documentation on subsystems and initialization (32211) - Finish 30866: most subsystems can now be configured with new API. - Suggestions for research on revision of walking onions paper. Week of 11 November (planned): - Short week because of holiday. - Catch up with reviews. - Catch up with documentation: 32209 (config), 32207 (pubsub), 29214 (continued subsuming of tor-guts). - Finish 32427 (refactor options_act_reversible). - Regression analysis on 041-regression,042-regression tickets. - 0.4.2.4-rc release. - Time permitting (haha): 32139 (configuration isolation for directory authority options) - Time permitting (haha): 32408 (refactor new options_act_reversible into new system.) Mike: Week of 11/06 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Week of 11/06 (actual): - Refactored circpad simulator; fixed some simulator bugs+issues; a few more remain - See: https://github.com/pylls/circpad-sim (and https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/tor/tree/circpad-sim-v2) Week of 11/11 (planned): - Finish cleaning up circpad simulator - Read asn's research feedback - Get DNS recommendations for exit operators for fingerprinting blog post - Update + triage circpad bugs Need help with/at risk of dropping this month: - Deep-thought-required research project followup - (Google masque, BGP, ECN, Rob's bw experiments, Dennis's Mozilla video, etc etc...) catalyst: week of 11/04 (2019-W45) (planned): - reviews - more sponsor31 architecture doc stuff (#29215) - maybe finish up #30984 - GSoD stuff as needed week of 11/04 (2019-W45) (actual): - reviews - checked in on GSoD stuff -- proposed some ways forward - wrote some sponsor31 architecture doc stuff - got early review of #30984 (thanks, teor!) week of 11/11 (2019-W46) (planned): - Monday is a public holiday - reviews - sponsor31 architecture doc stuff - work on splitting out torrc(5) manpage for swati to work on - other GSoD stuff as needed - monitor C style thread and respond as needed help with: - would like to hear feedback about whether to split torrc options out of the tor(1) manpage (non-torrc command line options would remain in tor(1)). i think teor might have opionions on this? asn: Week of 04/11 (planned): Week of 04/11 (actual): - Attended OTF meeting. Started a few email threads as the result of that. - Encoding v3 descriptors in stem is currently at the hands of atagar. I'm waiting for him to drop a branch soon. - Started initial work on actual OBv3 using the OBv2 codebase after discussion with Donncha. - Catching up with some S27 stuff. Week of 12/11 (planned): - Look into S27 typo deliverable (#30022) - Review atagar's descriptor encoding branch and make it work with OBv3. - If possible, write test vectors for descriptor encoding/decoding when stem support stabilizes. - Move forward with core OBv3 work. - Reviews as usual. ahf: Week of 4 November (planned): - Travel with Gus to Freedom Not Fear in Brussels. - Hack on #28930 and #32320. - Continue to see if we can get the asciidoc situation solved for Swati. Week of 4 November (actually): - Went to Freedom not Fear with Gus in Brussels: we did a Tor meetup with ~20-30 people, a session on onion services, and a session on anti-censorship technology. - Continued to try to figure out what is going on for #32320. - Shadow Simulation Developer work. Week of 11 November (planned): - Shadow Simulation Developer things - Get back to #28930. - Figure out with Swati how things are going there. - Retrospective. dgoulet: Week of 04/11 (actual): - Worked on #29698 unit tests. Turned out to be not enough. Worked for couple hours on recreating the bug through unit tests. I failed but at least found: #32388 - s27: Ticket work several tickets: #32376, #32356, #31371. - s27: Discussed work on #32030 with asn on the PR. - Reviews and merges. I still have a review backlog unfortunately. - Network Health team world needed my attention (bad relays). Week of 12/11 (planned): - Continue in the s27 world of -must ticket. - Hopefully make progress on the intro point retry period (tor-dev@ thread): #31561 - Can't promess any progress on #29698 (cmux/ewma). Unit tests is hella complicated to pull off. - Hope to get to a fix for #32388. All the best, Alex. -- Alexander Færøy

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Anti-censorship team monthly report: October 2019
by Philipp Winter 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Hi everyone, Here's what the anti-censorship team has been up to in October: Snowflake ========= * Continued work on a sequencing and reliability layer for snowflake: <https://bugs.torproject.org/29206> * Localised the snowflake.torproject.org website and implemented a language switcher: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31384> * Added an automatic packaging script for the snowflake web extension: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31253> * Fixed a bug in the web extension hat was keeping open UDP sockets: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31285> * Continued to investigate and monitor snowflake network health. * Snowflake web extension localisation updates. * Refactored the web extension code to allow for multiplexing of multiple clients through a single browser proxy: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31310> * Reduced unnecessary error messages in snowflake logs. BridgeDB ======== * Finished updating BridgeDB's requirements and created a process for keeping requirements up-to-date in the future: <https://bugs.torproject.org/29484> <https://gitweb.torproject.org/bridgedb.git/tree/doc/HACKING.md#n36> * Finished BridgeDB's language switcher: <https://bugs.torproject.org/26543> You can find it in the top right corner over at <https://bridges.torproject.org> * Accidentally fixed another UI issue while implementing the language switcher: <https://bugs.torproject.org/19839> * Debugged and fixed BridgeDB's email autoresponder. It broke after the underlying operating system was updated to the latest Debian stable: <https://bugs.torproject.org/32105> * Finished specification of BridgeDB's metrics format: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31780> * Started ripping out PGP support in BridgeDB's email autoresponder: <https://bugs.torproject.org/17548> BridgeDB's PGP keys have expired many years ago and the feature does not seem popular enough to warrant the (likely non-trivial) effort of resurrecting it. * Implemented a parser for BridgeDB metrics and used it to create a bunch of visualisations: <https://bugs.torproject.org/32135> * Fixed a bug that resulted in BridgeDB not logging vanilla bridges in its metrics: <https://bugs.torproject.org/32203> * Took a look at BridgeDB's broken email localisation: <https://bugs.torproject.org/15404> This is another broken feature that may not be worth the effort it takes to fix it. * Requested and installed new translations. Thanks to all volunteers who helped translate BridgeDB! GetTor ====== * Moved to a new VM. * More work towards bringing the Twitter responder back to life. Miscellaneous ============= * Implemented a prototype of bridgestrap, a service that takes as input a bridge line and tells you if it can bootstrap a tor connection over the given bridge: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31874> * Filed a ticket to discuss the future of website mirrors: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31990> * Wrapped up our "set up new obfs4 bridges" campaign: <https://bugs.torproject.org/30777> Our volunteers helped set up approximately 100 new bridges! * Started distributing some of our new high-capacity private obfs4 bridges. Also created a YAML file to coordinate who got what bridges. Obfs4 ===== * Made good progress on improving our obfs4 bridge Docker image: <https://bugs.torproject.org/31834> * Finished a prototype of sharknado, a backwards-compatible obfs4 improvement: <https://bugs.torproject.org/30716#comment:16> * Created a wiki page that documents the process for supplying an NGO with private obfs4 bridges: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam/…> * Conducted a probe test of a subset of our newly created obfs4 bridges from the bridge campaign in September. Found that all of the new bridges we tested seem to be blocked already in China: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/31701/obfs4-reac…> Tor Browser =========== * Upgraded goptlib to v1.1.0, fixing an error condition that would arise when using a pluggable transport with a non-working proxy: <https://bugs.torproject.org/32076> <https://bugs.torproject.org/32056>

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Sept & Oct Communications Report
by Stephanie A. Whited 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

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