Hi friends,

Here is our meeting summary: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-03-19-17.59.html

And here is our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday March 19th 18:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 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: https://gitlab.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. For 2020 Q1, the trac keyword is anti-censorship-roadmap-2020Q1 * Next planning session: last week of April * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * Past meetings' notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * GetTor's roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-proje... * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep

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== Announcements ==

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== Discussion ==

* Let's talk about the next steps to get snowflake to an "MVP" so it can be useful to users. * When is it a good time to blog about what we've been up to wrt snowflake? Before/after the TurboTunnel merge? * How about every two weeks, we pick a project or a paper and discuss it, reading group-style? * We could talk about it during our IRC meetings or over at https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues * Ideally, we would exchange ideas about the benefits/issues of a project; how Tor could benefit from it; etc. * The goal is for us to stay up to date on recent developments and learn from each other.

== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

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== Updates ==

Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with.

phw: This week (2020-03-19): * Wrote February 2020 report * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2020-March/002774.html * Identified and contacted bridges that run soon-to-be-obsolete Tor versions * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/32672#comment:42 * Added a bunch of new papers to CensorBib * Some catching up on Sponsor 28 emails * Reviewed several docker, GetTor, and BridgeDB patches * Tried to figure out if #33464 really is a problem (it isn't) * Addressed remaining feedback for #33008, merged, and deployed * Filed #33630 to get noisebridge01 removed from list of default bridges * It's been unmaintained for a looong time * Realised that BridgeDB doesn't let bridges *change* their distribution mechanism and filed #33631 to get it fixed * ...the fix is more invasive than I thought, though * More coordination on our monitoring infrastructure (#31159) * Our sysmon instance was broken, resulting in us not knowing that our UMN default bridge was down :( * Spent way too much time trying to figure out why BridgeDB's overly complicated installation procedure is now broken * ...still not clear :( Next week: * Write a summary of our current BridgeDB distribution mechanisms and brainstorm new ones * Pay attention to volunteer work (help agix with BridgeDB reviews; thymbahutymba with docker; Sergey with https proxy) * Make BridgeDB report internal metrics (#31422) * Catch up on RACE; in particular wrt obfs4 improvements Help with: *

Gaba: () Last week (2020-03-12): * not much related to anti-censorship This week (planned): * not much related to anti-censorship

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-03-19 Last week: - finished Tor browser patch to update pion (#33576) - Revise GetTor help (and links) message (#23226) - removed server-webrtc (#33636) - final edit passes for NSF grant - worked on a Snowflake package for Debian (#19409) - helping with update of obfs4proxy debian package - remove server-webrtc from snowflake repo (#33636) - reviews of #33008, #33638 - talked with alwayslivid about telegram bot for GetTor (#22011) - prepared for potential snowflake repo split (#33593)

This week: - maybe continue work on throughput check (#32938) - make a Snowflake package for debian (#19409) - Resume obfs4 and snowflake tests (#31701, #32657, and #32545) - look at options for getting STUN information to snowflake clients (#25591) - make sure obfs4proxy debian package gets updated - take a look at reviving the twitter responder in GetTor (#33036)

Needs help with: - Update Snowflake license (#33637) - Review of GetTor help/links message update (#23226) - Decision and review of snowflake repo split (#33593)

arlolra: 2020-03-19 Last week: - some snowflake refactoring (#33638) and review - #33665 Next week: - maybe the proxy parts of #19026 - start on #31201 Help with: -

dcf: 2020-03-19 Last week: - reviewed snowflake proxy throughput tests (#32938) - filed a ticket for a needed security upgrade for the snowflake bridge (#33644) - let snowflake-turbotunnel handle simultaneous SOCKS connections (#33519) Next week: - announce snowflake-turbotunnel Tor Browser packages with 9.5a8 - file ticket for snowflake-turbotunnel merge - share access to the snowflake broker CDN configuration (#30510) Help with:

cjb: 2020-03-19 Last week: - gonna be afk with kids Next week: Help with:

agix:2020-03-19 Last week: - Opened #33647 (Minor updates to BridgeDB's dependencies) - Worked on the GSoC proposal - Fixed broken patch for #31967 Next week: - Continue on #31967 and #31426 Help with: -

catalyst: 2020-03-19 last week: - did some s28/s30 prioritization with ahf - helped cohosh with some Debian packaging related things this week: - work on some s28/30 tickets, e.g., #5304

thymbahutymba: 2020-03-12 Last week: - docker-compose for obfs4-bridge (#31834) - multiarch docker obfs4 images #33461 (even though is more then a week ago) - reported issue concerning #31834 (comment 25) Next week: Help with:

Hiro: (last updated before 2020-01-09) Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation