Anti-censorship meeting notes, 14 Nov 2019

Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2019/tor-meeting.2019-11-14-18.00.html And here is our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday November 14th 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://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/... * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&component... * Projects 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 --------------------------- --- 14th November 2019 --- --------------------------- == Announcements == * Remember we are moving to https://nc.torproject.net for nextcloud. If you have anything else in nc.riseup.net or storm.torproject.org please move it == Discussion == * Gettor update * Survival guide here: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/... * Let's agree on an IRC "team handle" that we configure highlights for. This will allow both team-internal and team-external people to reach our team. * There already is "network-team" and "tb-team" * "ac-team" and "anti-censorship-team" * Kicked out old snowflake proxies with #29207 update * It will take a while for metrics to come in, but it looks like we still have plenty. * Cupcake hadn't been updated at all since the original import of Snowflake * dcf is ready to migrate the Snowflake broker to the IPv6 host (#29258). He can update the snowflake-broker.bamsoftware.com address from which snowflake-broker.freehaven.net will follow. Tor Metrics should automatically start following the new broker after that. * Just want to be sure people are around to react in case something goes wrong. * I'd like to copy over the metrics log, but otherwise i'm ready --cohosh * Sponsor 30: we are skipping the November meeting as Hellais and Phw already met during summit. Work Plan for November: https://nc.torproject.net/s/7MYXRmTgirqKKyk * Create an evaluation framework for bridge distribution and selection methods. (anti-censorship team) #31274 * Improve documentation on how to set up a bridge server and different pluggable transport bridge servers. (anti-censorship team) #31280 * Create scripts and configuration code for setting up a bridge on cloud providers to make it easier for operators to launch a new bridge. (anti-censorship team) #31281 * Any update to the roadmap? https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/-/boards == Actions == * Please add your October'19 highlights to our (very late) monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/Z7EjorhnnuNLVnA7Tdda == Interesting links == * Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies: https://censorbib.nymity.ch/pdf/Bock2019a.pdf * They're using genetic algorithms to derive evasion strategies == Updates == FORMAT! 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. Hiro: 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 phw: This week (2019-11-14): * Attended OTF summit. * Had a chat with Arturo about sponsor 30 * Talked to people about private obfs4 bridge distribution * Lots of censorship-related information sharing * Thought about information sharing list for projects that ship obfs4. * Attended OTF advisory council meeting. * Filed #32276 to help BridgeDB see client IP addresses of moat requests. * Merged two new obfs4 bridge setup guides (thanks to egypcio). * Revised and merged #32203 (no BridgeDB metrics for vanilla bridges); released BridgeDB v0.9.1. * Updated BridgeDB dependencies because of security issue in pillow. * More root cause analysis of #15404 (BridgeDB's email responses aren't localised). * Closed #19839 (untranslated title strings in BridgeDB) because we seem to have fixed it already. * Reviewed #31310 and #29207. * Made progress on #31834 (improve Docker container). * Reviewed status-check script for BridgeDB (will help test our email autoresponder). Next week: * Help with: * Gaba: (updated October 30th) Last week (): * sponsor 30 This week (planned): * more sponsors ahf Last week: - Worked on #28930 This week: - Finished refactoring parts of #28930. Trying to figure out if we should begin the discussion on how PT's can report back on bootstrap info. - Continued to work on a tool to convert Trac tickets into Gitlab tickets. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-11-14 Last week: - reviewed #31028 (websocket library change) - ran some tests for #31971 (windows slowness) and couldn't reproduce it - finished proxy-go tests (#30867) - sponsor 28 PI meeting (travelled to California) - reviewed gettor survival guide - took a look at #32393 (gettor github links broken) and filed #32457 (to get access to gettor machine) - review of gettor PR - did a review of work so far on #31874 - deployed 29207 and #30867 at the broker, proxy-go instances, and for web extensions - started looking at github API for gettor releases (#32480) This week: - continue on writing snowflake tests (#29259) - more work on #29206 and #25723 - more grant writing - have proxies report what kind they are to broker #31157 (related to #29207) - gettor code reviews - add more STUN servers to snowflake (#30579) - come up with a concrete way to measure snowflake network health catalyst: week of 09/19 (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 planning - coding style discussion - comment on draft network team review guidelines - #30984 week of 09/19 (actual): - reviews - sponsor31 planning - talking with people about proposed network team review processes week of 09/26 (planned): - reviews - sponsor31 doc coordination - checking in on Season of Docs work - #30984 arlolra: 2019-11-14 Last week: - finished off / merged #31028 Next week: - add a build step / documentation for code reuse in cupcake - read up on turbo tunnel Help with: - dcf: 2019-11-14 Last week: - reviewed Gorilla WebSocket patch (#31028) - reviewed proxy-go tests (#30867) Next week: - switch to new IPv6 broker (#29258) - prototyping KCP and QUIC in meek - revise ticket about Cupcake patch (#31497) Help with: - need meek-azure to redeploy meek-server for #31890
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Philipp Winter