Anti-censorship meeting notes, 11 February 2021

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-11-15.58.html and our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday February 11th16:00 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 <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 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home> * Past meeting notes can be found at: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ <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... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None> * Sponsor 30 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5> * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6> * Sponsor 28 * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10> * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&s... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None>%5b%5d <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None>=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None> * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep <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 <https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep> == Announcements == * Research ideas page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-idea... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Research-ideas/> == Discussion == * What are the FAQs? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/7> == Actions == * == Interesting links == * Signal simple TLS proxy: https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/ <https://signal.org/blog/help-iran-reconnect/> * Interesting approach to the proxy distribution problem: post #IRanASignalProxy and wait for people to DM you * https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech <https://github.com/kpcyrd/signal-doh-ech> * Experimental source dump for pluggable transport for signal-desktop * https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ <https://groups.google.com/g/traffic-obf/c/vYrOFSWZif0/m/7vEPJz-KAgAJ> * Pluggable Transports spec v2.2 Draft 1 == Reading group == * We will discuss"" * 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. cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-02-11 Last week: - so many meetings - finished working on a snowflake survey (snowflake#40007) - lots of hiring things - looked into network simulation for analyzing snowflake performance issues (snowflake#40026) - worked on connecting bridgedb to rdsys backend (rdsys#12) - sponsor 28 evaluation prep - made a research ideas wiki page - meeting with grad student to talk about reputation-based bridge distribution project - debugged an issue with bridgedb not reporting obfs4 bridges (bridgedb#40006) This week: - integrate gettor and rdsys (rdsys#32) - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - sponsor 28 meetings - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026) - debug lack of bridgedb IPv6 obfs4 bridges (bridgedb#40006) Needs help with: arlolra: 2020-10-29 * Last week: * - * Next week: * - getting back up to speed * - follow ups to #33365 * - start on #31201 * Help with: * - dcf:2021-02-11 * Last week: * - opened a ticket to update links in Snowflake webextension description https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/22> * - updated bug reporting instructions on the Snowflake wiki page https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/21#note_2724820> * Next week: * Help with: Antonela: 2020-08-27 * This week: * agix:2021-01-28 * Last week: * -Research on httpt #4 * Next week: * -(For sure) finish rdsys #6 * Help with: * - hanneloresx: 2021-2-11 * Last week: * - Finished emma #6 * Next week: * - Workon bridgestrap #14 * Help with: * - HashikD: 2021-01-22 * Thisweek: * - * Next week: * - * Help with: -
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Cecylia Bocovich