Happy new year! Here are our meeting notes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-07-15.58.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday January 7th 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 == Cure53 is engaged by the Berkeley Counter-Power Lab to do a security audit of Turbo Tunnel in Snowflake. dcf has advised them to correspond on the anti-censorship-team list if possible. == Discussion == https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/kj7git/is_bamsoftwarecom_related_to_th... Malwarebytes apparently blocks snowflake.bamsoftware.com and snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com. But this should not have happened since https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... (webext-0.0.6), which changed *.bamsoftware.com to *.freehaven.net? https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/snowflake.git/commit/?id=... How did this user get a copy of the browser extension that still contacts these old domains? Pick a reading for the next reading group discussion == Actions == December 2020 monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/mh4PvdOzncZlcxwHGROn == Interesting links == GitHub is now available in Iran: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-github-is-fully-a... == Reading group == We will discuss "Early Detection of Censorship Events with Psiphon Network Data" on Jan 21, 2021. https://tics.site/proceedings/2019a/icn_2019_7_10_38005.pdf 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 (2020-01-07): Filled out TPA survey. Figured out root cause of bridgestrap's dormant mode issue. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/12 Improved queuing mechanism of rdsys's interaction with bridgestrap. Filed issue to incorporate emma into OONI. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/emma/-/issues/5 Filed monit issue to watch out for future obfs4proxy problems. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/issu... Found and fixed race condition in bridgestrap's cache implementation. Next week: Progress on Salmon's privacy improvements. Brainstorm a way to do censorship measurement for Salmon. Help with: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/merge_reques... cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-01-07 Last 2-3 weeks: - mostly afk - updated version of pion webrtc to 3.0.0 (snowflake#40027) This week: - cleaned up a simple script for comparing the performance of two versions of snowflake: https://gitlab.torproject.org/-/snippets/69 This week: - continued work on snowflake overhead performance, and stacking reliable protocols Needs help with: - review of snowflake!25 (closes snowflake#40027) arlolra: 2020-10-29 Last week: - Next week: - getting back up to speed - follow ups to #33365 - start on #31201 Help with: - dcf: 2021-01-07 Last week: - Azure bookkeeping Next week: - make a ticket to change {snowflake,snowflake-broker}.freehaven.net into CNAMES of the corresponding torproject.net domains, not bamsoftware.com - review pion v3 upgrade https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 This week: agix:2021-01-07 Last week: -Research on httpt #4 Next week: -Finish rdsys #6 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: - HashikD: 2020-11-19 This week: - Next week: - Help with: -