[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 25 February 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-25-15.58.html

and our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday February 25th 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

    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%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=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 <-- do we still need this? The
label is 'for anticensorship team'

    Public bug-reporting pad:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep


== Announcements ==

    Snowflake user survey posted

    https://blog.torproject.org/learning-more-about-tor-users

    https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/491436


== Discussion ==

    Snowflake bridge users suspiciously plateau at ~180 last week


https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6915AB06BFB7F

    Possible blocking in Belarus

    https://ntc.party/t/shift-in-tor-obfs4-and-meek-users-on-2021-02-13/890


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40002


== Actions ==



== Interesting links ==

    https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine


== Reading group ==

    We will discuss "Investigating Large Scale HTTPS Interception in
Kazakhstan" on 2020-03-04

    https://censoredplanet.org/assets/Kazakhstan.pdf

    https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan

    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.


cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-02-25
Last week:
    - patched stem on polyanthum to fix bridgedb#40006 issue
    - wrote bridgedb!13 to continue parsing remaining extrainfo
descriptors if one was malformed
    - lots of interviews!
    - s28 meetings
    - started setting up network emulations for snowflake#40026
    - worked on some logging patches to measure congestion for snowflake
    - helped a user debug possible blocking Belarus and found some
interesting metrics:
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/46#issuecomment-782897099
This week:
    - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12)
    - a few more sponsor 28 meetings
    - hiring interviews
    - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026
    - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026)
    - revise gettor.torproject.org instructions (gettor-web#1)
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2020-10-29

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - getting back up to speed

    - follow ups to #33365

    - start on #31201

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-02-25

    Last week:

    Next week:

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-02-25

    Last week:

    -More research on httpt #4

    -Inspired by cohosh's bridgebox I worked on a local test environment
for rdsys, still facing issues with running bridgestrap locally

    Next week:

    -Fix issues regarding bridgestrap

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-2-11

    Last week:

    - Finished emma #6

    Next week:

    - Work on bridgestrap #14

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -