Anti-censorship team monthly report: April 2019

Snowflake --------- * Shipped a few snowflake fixes * Worked on collecting metrics of snowflake use - Implemented geoip stats for snowflake proxies: https://bugs.torproject.org/29734 - Coordinating with metrics team to safely export these statistics: https://bugs.torproject.org/21315 * Witnessed the first blocking of snowfake proxies in China - https://bugs.torproject.org/30350 - Created https://bugs.torproject.org/30368 to measure this blocking BridgeDB -------- * Moved forward with gathering BridgeDB statistics - http://bugs.torproject.org/9316 - Wrote and submitted proposal for Tor research safety board: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2019-April/00000... - Coordinated with Karsten on statistics format * Implemented fix to not hand out probing-resistance transports - https://bugs.torproject.org/28655 - Under review and not yet deployed * Filed https://bugs.torproject.org/30103 to make BridgeDB's email addresses consistent GetTor ------ * Created roadmap * Filed https://bugs.torproject.org/30247 to better understand GetTor usage Miscellaneous ------------- * Worked with gman999 to have our anti-censorship infrastructure monitored. - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam/I... - Filed https://bugs.torproject.org/30152 as umbrella ticket * Created a public anti-censorship team mailing list: https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/anti-censorship-team * Created a team wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * Updated roadmap bringing issues from network team's roadmap (related to snowflake, bridgedb and PTs) * Surveyed who is running our default bridges - https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorBrowser/DefaultBridges - Filed https://bugs.torproject.org/30264 to discuss the way forward * Conducted a probing study to determine the reachability of private obfs4 bridges - https://bugs.torproject.org/29279 - Learned that obfs4 is not being blocked at the transport level
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Philipp Winter