Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-11-19-15.58.html
and the meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday November 19th 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%...
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 <-- do we still need this? The label is 'for anticensorship team'
Public bug-reporting pad:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep
== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
"Detection of Tor traffic using deep learning"
https://146.227.160.144/bitstream/handle/2086/20415/AICCSA_2020_Final_Versio...
Appears to only deal with vanilla Tor traffic.
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Poking a Hole in the Wall: Efficient Censorship-Resistant Internet Communications by Parasitizing on WebRTC" on Dec 3
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3372297.3417874
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 (2020-11-19):
Made rdsys pool bridgestrap requests to minimise overhead.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/24
Added field to bridgestrap's response, informing requester when a bridge was last tested.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/6
Finally merged bridgestrap improvement that uses SETCONF to test bridges.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/3
Made rdsys display a bridge status page.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/10
Filed various sysadmin tickets to get bridgestrap deployed.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/5
Started investigating why we see more timeouts when we test more bridges.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/7
Agreed to serve in TPC of NDSS DNS Privacy Workshop
Started working on rdsys's design and architecture documentation.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/16
Merged an improvement to our Debian bridge setup guide.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/arma/community-tpo/-/merge_requests/3
Next week:
Reach out to a few folks to have emma run in different places.
Deploy bridgestrap and rdsys, and expose bridge status page.
Progress on Salmon.
Help with:
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-11-19 Last week: - opened and created a MR for snowflake#40021 - more work on snowflake#40018 - merged and deployed snowflake-webext!9 - wrote up documentation of the NAT matching problem on the snowflake wiki: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - wrote snowflake!19 to close snowflake#40022 - Tor state of the onion - reviewed bridgestrap!2 This week: - Tor Browser patch for snowflake!19 - continue to monitor snowflake stats - write a PR to merge additional features from snowflake#40018 - follow up on progress towards a telegram bot for gettor - have broker inform proxies when to poll (snowflake#25598) - pick up snowflake multiplexing work again (snowflake#25723) - write probetest survival guide Needs help with: - review of snowflake!18 - review of snowflake!19 (i would really like to get this merged in tor browser quickly)
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: 2020-10-29
Last week:
-
Next week:
- getting back up to speed
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2020-11-19
Last week:
- archived snowflake-webextension-0.5.2
Next week:
- review NAT type reclassification https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
Help with:
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:2020-11-19
Last week:
-Reviewed rdsys documentation
Next week:
-(Definitely!) Finish work on rdsys ticket (tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys!4)
-Gather ideas for Pluggable Transports/HTTPT/Issues/#4
Help with:
-
hanneloresx: 2020-10-22
Last week:
- Took break to focus on work
Next week:
- #32117: Look at CAPTCHA success rate for users from the US across different types of bridges
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: 2020-11-19
This week:
-
Next week:
- Research on how to implement a STUN check on Android.
Help with: -