[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 02 Jul 2020
Philipp Winter
phw at torproject.org
Thu Jul 2 18:02:37 UTC 2020
Hi all,
Here are our meeting minutes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-02-15.58.html
And here is our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday July 2nd 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?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
* https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 <-- it will be moved into gitlab
* 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
* https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28 <-- it will be moved into gitlab
* 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%93&state=opened&label_name[]=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None
* 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 ==
* Use the "First Contribution" label if an issue is well-suited for newcomers.
* Take a look at our June 2020 report and make sure that it has your work:
* https://pad.riseup.net/p/ituvazq54RQemaxu0m4E
== Discussion ==
* Is there a way to accept anonymous bug reports in the anti-censorship team, even if other teams don't?
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34435#note_2683578
* If a random member of the public emails gitlab-admin to get an account, will it work? Or are accounts only for internal people?
* Could we have our own cypherpunks account?
* Could we recommend a public pad, from which we transcribe reports weekly?
== Actions ==
*
== Interesting links ==
*
== 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 (2020-07-02):
* Gave a talk at OONI's Internet Measurement Village 2020:
* Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6xEfNHkFKY
* Filed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#40001; the craziest BridgeDB bug I've run across so far.
* Lots of debugging for tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#31422. Eventually realised that the problem was #40001.
* Some onionperf and exitmap work.
* Merged tpo/anti-censorship/emma!2 for emma.
* Provided more background in tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#32117.
* Tested tpo/core/tor!10.
* Worked on June'20 team report.
* Moved forward with tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.
Next week:
* Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.
Help with:
*
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-06-25
Last week:
- reviewed #29184
- revised nat discovery feature (#34129)
- trial refactor of bridgedb to get ready for a GetTor integration (#3780)
- sponsor 28 evaluation prep
- snowflake proxy on mobile work, reviews
This week:
- away on vacation
Needs help with:
- another review of #34129
- review/feedback on #3780
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: 2020-07-02
Last week:
- tried to grant admin access to the snowflake broker CDN configuration (#30510)
- replied on revisions to NAT behavior (#34129)
- filed a ticket for bridge port scan usability (bridge-port-scan#1)
- helped debug a snowflake failure on Whonix (snowflake#34435)
Next week:
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%20activities/2020/run-emma.md
- Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
agix:2020-07-02
Last week:
-Was off because of studies
Next week:
-Start on fixing #34318
-Finish review
Help with:
-
hanneloresx: 2020-06-25
Last week:
- Read existing documentation for BridgeDB. Get acclimated to GitLab.
- Read background information for #32117
Next week:
- Work on #32117
- Translate monthly team report
- 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: 2020-07-02
Last week:
- MR for #6 Allow users to add custom Relay, STUN, Broker servers using a settings UI.
-MR for #8 A Readme file for the project.
Next week:
- #6 Showing users stat about how many clients' they served in the past 24 hours
Help with: -
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