Hi friends, Here's what the anti-censorship team has accomplished in February 2020: Snowflake ========= * Did a trial deployment of Tor Browser with Snowflake and Turbo Tunnel. This branch of development enables Snowflake to work for a long time, by migrating across temporary proxies. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33336> <https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2020-February/045499.html> One known major usability bug remains: <https://bugs.torproject.org/33519> * Update webextension and webpage with new translations. * Debugged some pion library performance issues. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33211> * Worked on a throughput check for Snowflake proxies. <https://bugs.torproject.org/32938> GetTor ====== * Fixed broken localisation for some locales. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33002> * Fixed the email rate-limiter and delete old requests. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33123> * Added database tests for GetTor and fixed the database handling code. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33191> * Worked on fix to ignore quoted help text in GetTor emails. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33343> BridgeDB ======== * We finally finished porting BridgeDB to Python 3. * Did another analysis round to better understand how our new CAPTCHAs affected users: <https://bugs.torproject.org/24607#comment:17> * Updated BridgeDB's documentation. <https://bugs.torproject.org/31427> * Made some progress towards an easier-to-understand email response. <https://bugs.torproject.org/30941> * Retired obfs3, ScrambleSuit, and FTE from BridgeDB. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33299> * Refactored a Python script that will help us test BridgeDB's email distributor using Nagios. <https://bugs.torproject.org/12802> Miscellaneous ============= * Created a preliminary process for the distribution of private bridges to NGOs. <https://bugs.torproject.org/31872> * Fixed a synchronisation issue in bridgestrap and wrote unit tests for it. * Made some progress towards building docker images for architectures other than amd64. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33088> * Started using Debian "slim" to reduce the size of our obfs4 docker image. The size went from approximately 120 MB to 70 MB. <https://bugs.torproject.org/32860> * Created a pull request that adds our latest default bridges to OONI. <https://github.com/ooni/sysadmin/pull/424> <https://github.com/ooni/spec/pull/177> Outreach ======== * Wrote a blog post introducing BridgeDB version 0.9.3. <https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-093> * Wrapped up our bridge campaign retrospective. <https://bugs.torproject.org/33007>