Hi!

Here are our meeting minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-16-15.58.html

And here is our meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday July 16th 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%...

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

== Announcements ==

The censorship track at PETS starts at 16:40 UTC today at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdDgAuuilZk and a recording of the VPN talk we're going to discuss next week is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aSO4ZMKjmY

== Discussion ==

Any naming suggestions for our experimental BridgeDB successor?

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Baby-Name-Boo...

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020 is this week. The censorship session is 16:40–17:55 UTC on Thursday.

https://petsymposium.org/2020/program_UTC.php

I skimmed the program for papers that look relevant to us. There's one on VPN usage, two on decoy routing, and one on rendezvous using cryptocurrency.

Emotional and Practical Considerations towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf

Running Refraction Networking for Real

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue4/popets-2020-0073.pdf

SiegeBreaker: An SDN Based Practical Decoy Routing System

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0051.pdf

MoneyMorph: Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0058.pdf

== Reading group ==

We will discuss "Emotional and Practical Considerations Towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology" on July 23rd

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII

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 (2020-07-16):

Experimented with a generalisation of BridgeDB.

...based on "Clean Architecture": https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2012/08/13/the-clean-architecture.html

Added a handful of new papers to CensorBib.

Merged obfs4 bridge setup guide for Windows.

Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#40003.

Merged tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#33647.

Merged tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#33835.

Next week:

Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.

Help with:

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-07-16 Last week: - PETS 2020 conference participation and artifact committee stuff - Getting really bogged down with sponsor 28 evaluation work - some snowflake mobile UI discussion and reviews - opened a ticket to implement more NAT discovery at browser proxies (snowflake-webext#13) - ran some performance tests on a symmetric NAT to check for improvements from #34129 (#33666) This week: - take a look at #25595 - NAT discovery at proxies (snowflake-webext#13) - snowflake sponsor 28 evaluation work - maybe take a look at snowflake#21314 or some other blockers on #19001 - continue with GetTor + BridgeDB refactor Needs help with: - review of tor-browser-build#40016 (i'll ping the applications team)

juggy : This week: - Dig into the algorithm for how BridgeDB distributes bridges Next week: - Implement audio captchas in moat, figure out how to reduce audio captcha request size - Keep studying BridgeDB to write architectural overview Help with:

arlolra: 2020-06-11

Last week:

-

Next week:

- follow ups to #33365

- start on #31201

Help with:

-

dcf: 2020-07-16

Last week:

- reviewed RFC 5780–compatible STUN server for Snowflake broker.

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- commented on STUN server selection for Tor Browser

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- archived Snowflake WebExtension 0.4.0

Next week:

- find out what went wrong with trying to give cohosh CDN access (snowflake#30510)

- set up an etherpad for public bug reporting and link it from https://snowflake.torproject.org/#bugs (snowflake#34435)

Help with:

Antonela: 2020-07-16

- (S28) Snowflake Android App UI

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- (S30) Making bridges.tpo looks like tpo.org

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322

- (S30) Planning activities for the user group in HK (happening next week):

- Run emma

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20...

- Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4

agix:2020-07-02

Last week:

-Worked on #27984

Next week:

-Work on #34318

Help with:

-Review of #27984 (It's just a feedback implementation)

hanneloresx: 2020-06-25

Last week:

- Read existing documentation for BridgeDB. Get acclimated to GitLab.

- Started investigating #32117

- Filed and fixed #40003

Next week:

- Work on #32117

- Work on #33727

Help with:

-

thymbahutymba: 2020-04-02 Last week: - CI/CD pipeline for multiarch docker images, which has a problem with the apt tor version even though the apt repository have been changed into the Dockerfile. Next week: Help with:

HashikD: 2020-07-16

Last week:

- Made designs for Snowflake mobile: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- #6 Showing users stat about how many clients they served in the past 24

Next week:

- Turn Designs in to code

- Contemplating

Help with: -