Hi all,

Here are our meeting minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-03-26-17.59.html

And here is our meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday April 1st 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://gitlab.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. For 2020 Q1, the trac keyword is anti-censorship-roadmap-2020Q1 * Next planning session: last week of April * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * Past meetings' notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * GetTor's roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-proje... * Tickets that need reviews: 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 * Anti-censorship related tickets that we want other teams to fix: * https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-tickets-keep

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== Announcements ==

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== Discussion ==

* Can we close https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29863 (snowflake infra disk space monitoring) ? * What's there to do for https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/29274 (get developers using new PT alphas) ?

== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

* https://uncensoredlibrary.com/en * https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/iran-whitelister/ * https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel * https://info.williamlong.info/2020/03/github-pages.html * reported TLS MITM of GitHub Pages in China

== Reading group ==

* We will discuss "Detecting Probe-resistant Proxies" on April 2 * https://censorbib.nymity.ch/#Frolov2020a * 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 (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with.

phw: This week (2020-03-26): * Made decent progress on making BridgeDB report internal metrics (#31422). * Merged patch that made docker obfs4 image support docker-compose to (re-)deploy container. Thanks to thymbahutymba for the patch! * Spent a lot of time debugging the failure that resulted from my own creation (#33709). * Merged #31967, thanks to agix for the patch! * Fixed and merged #30317. * Implemented #33631. * Revised #30941. Next week: * Write a summary of our current BridgeDB distribution mechanisms and brainstorm new ones * Pay attention to volunteer work (help agix with BridgeDB reviews; thymbahutymba with docker; Sergey with https proxy) * Make BridgeDB report internal metrics (#31422) * Catch up on RACE; in particular wrt obfs4 improvements Help with: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/30941

Gaba: () Last week (2020-03-26): * not much related to anti-censorship This week (planned): * not much related to anti-censorship

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-03-26 Last week: - Updated Snowflake license (#33637) - worked on learning about Debian for Snowflake (#19409) - chipped away at updating the debian obfs4proxy package (#33736) - travis fixes for #33593 - lots of grant writing, the grant seems pretty much finished! - lots of gsoc things, reviewed proposals, talked to applicants - created #33740 - reviewed #33631 and #30317 - read up on history of #33693 This week: - Resume obfs4 and snowflake tests (#31701, #32657, and #32545) - see if i can help push snowflake for android along (#28672) - write a patch for #33693 - look into proxy issues (#33666) - take a look at reviving the twitter responder in GetTor (#33036) Needs help with:

juggy :

arlolra: 2020-03-26 Last week: - merged #33665 Next week: - maybe the proxy parts of #19026 - start on #31201 Help with: - review of #19026 but also answer the question there

dcf: 2020-03-26 Last week: - announced snowflake-turbotunnel packages built on 9.5a8 (#33519) - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2020-March/00007... - discussed snowflake client metrics (#33693) - security upgrade of snowflake bridge (#33644) - closed ticket for multiple SOCKS connections in turbotunnel snowflake (#33519) - reviewed unsafe logging patch (#33665) - investigated effects of missing client_ip at snowflake bridge (#33157) - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/metrics-team/2020-March/001139.html Next week: - file ticket for snowflake-turbotunnel merge - share access to the snowflake broker CDN configuration (#30510) Help with:

cjb: 2020-03-26 Last week: - gonna be afk with kids Next week: Help with:

antonela: 2020-03-26 - working with Babatunde's interviews (OTF Fellowship) from Nigeria and Cameroon. Shared preliminar notes with Tunde and Nah (#32811) - started to work on this user research document, we still stick to the plan of running it during April (#31870) Help with: - nothing yet :)

agix:2020-03-26 Last week: - Finally patched #31967 - Finished the project proposal Next week: - Patch #31426 - Patch #33647 Help with: -

catalyst: 2020-03-19 last week: - worked on #5304 (Obfsproxy should respect OutboundBindAddress in torrc) this week: - more work on #5304 and other s28/s30 tickets

thymbahutymba: 2020-03-23 Last week: - CI/CD using github actions. - docker-obfs4-bridge CI/CD (testing and multiarch-testing branch) with release on hub.docker.com. Next week: Help with: - How should work (be triggered) the release of different arch images?

Hiro: (last updated before 2020-01-09) 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