Here is the meeting log:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-23-15.58.html
And the meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday July 23rd 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
== Announcements ==
The cost for Snowflake broker CDN service was non-zero, 0.01 USD, for the first time last month.
On track for 0.02 USD in July.
== Discussion ==
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
Relevant papers from Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020. There's one on VPN usage, two on decoy routing, and one on rendezvous using cryptocurrency.
https://petsymposium.org/2020/program_UTC.php
Emotional and Practical Considerations towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII
Running Refraction Networking for Real
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue4/popets-2020-0073.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYKdy7lCRY
SiegeBreaker: An SDN Based Practical Decoy Routing System
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0051.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mHOKFtcYA
MoneyMorph: Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Permissionless Cryptocurrencies
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0058.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnc2i64rXvI
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Emotional and Practical Considerations Towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology" on July 23rd
https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII
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 (2020-07-23):
Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#27984.
Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake#40002.
Spent a lot of time working on design of BridgeDB rewrite:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32900#no...
Next week:
Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.
Help with:
Thoughts on tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#32900 greatly appreciated.
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-07-23 Last week: - sponsor 28 evaluation bullshit, mostly - added more stun servers to client (snowflake#30579) - reviewed snowflake-mobile tickets - talked with phw about bridgedb re-write This week: - take a look at #25595 - NAT discovery at proxies (snowflake-webext#13) - snowflake sponsor 28 evaluation (monday, tuesday) - update tor-browser-build#40016 with work on snowflake#30579 - continue with GetTor + BridgeDB refactor Needs help with: - review of snowflake#30579 (snowflake!7)
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 paper/resource/reading
arlolra: 2020-06-11
Last week:
-
Next week:
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- updated markup in the Snowflake wiki page for gitlab
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
Next week:
- find out what went wrong with trying to give cohosh CDN access (snowflake#30510)
- set up an etherpad for public bug reporting and link it from https://snowflake.torproject.org/#bugs (snowflake#34435)
Help with:
Antonela: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- (S28) Snowflake Android App UI
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- (S30) Making bridges.tpo looks like tpo.org
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322
- (S30) Planning activities for the user group in HK (happening next week):
- Run emma
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20...
- Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
This week:
- (S28) Review Snowflake Android App UI
- (S30) Working on making bridges.tpo work with lektor
- (S30) Sent Get Bridges User Research to the group in HK. Will meet them on Friday. Final script: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
agix:2020-07-02
Last week:
-Worked on #27984
Next week:
-Work on #34318
Help with:
-Review of #27984 (It's just a feedback implementation)
hanneloresx: 2020-07-23
Last week:
- Read existing documentation for BridgeDB.
- Started investigating #32117
Next week:
- Work on #32117
- Work on #33727
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: 2020-07-16
Last week:
- Made designs for Snowflake mobile: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- #6 Showing users stat about how many clients they served in the past 24
Next week:
- Work on ticket #11
Help with: -