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%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 == 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: -