Hi all,

Our MeetBot disappeared halfway through the meeting and was unable to capture minutes, so I'm attaching our IRC log to this email.

And here is our meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday July 9th 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 ==

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== Discussion ==

* Any resolution on accepting public bug reports for the anti-censorship team? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * Last week's discussion: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-02-15.58.log....

== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

* Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020 is next 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://benvds.com/papers/refraction2020.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 GoodbyeDPI on July 9th * https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI * 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 (2020-07-09): * Fixed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#40001. * Registered for RightsCon'20. * Simplified bridgestrap code and fixed bug in caching system. * Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb!2. * Roadmap meeting. * Wrapped up and blogged monthly report. * Filed tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#40001. * Merged tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#34260. * Released and deployed BridgeDB 0.11.0. * Merged and deployed #31422 and #34260. Next week: * Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259. Help with: *

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-07-09 Last week: - caught up on emails/meetings - reveiwed and provided feedback on a lot of snowflake mobile tickets - reviewed some bridgedb tickets - worked with hc on a gitlab ci script (snowflake#40003) - came up with list of candidate stun servers and wrote patches to add them to default configs (#30579) - merged and deployed nat discovery feature (#34129) - opened and started a build to update snowflake for tor browser (tor-browser-build#40016) - looked into proxy-go client timeouts for our proxy-go instances (#30498) This week: - take a look at #25595 - 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 #30579 (merge request !5) - review of snowflake#40003 (hc should look at this) - soon a 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: 2020-07-09 Last week: - filed a ticket for bridge port scan usability (bridge-port-scan#1) 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: 2020-06-25 - (S30) planning activities for the user group in HK: - 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: -Slowly started on #34318 (was occupied with GSoC stuff) Next week: -Continue work on #34318 and reviews Help with: -

hanneloresx: 2020-06-25 Last week: - Read existing documentation for BridgeDB. Get acclimated to GitLab. - Read background information for #32117 - Translate monthly team report and post on forums 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: 2020-07-09 Last week: - Working on Snowflake Docker container. - Resolving issues on MR #4 - MR (merged) Added read me for the #8 - MR (merged) Added LICENSE for the project #13 - MR for CI for the project #14 Next week: - #6 Showing users stat about how many clients' they served in the past 24 hours. Help with: -