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%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 <-- 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: -