[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 28 January 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-01-07-15.58.html

and our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday January 28th 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 ==

    There's a job opening in the anti-censorship team:


https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship/
<-- please apply!

    Default bridges are supposed to work again in Tor Browser 10.5a8

    https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105a8 \o/


== Discussion ==



== Actions ==

    January 2021 monthly report:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/mmoiMFOsC0MKLtL7zhc6


== Interesting links ==

    MariaV is inviting teams to opt in to an anonymous GitLab reporting
system (see 2021-01-27 tor-team email).

    https://anonticket.onionize.space/

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/anon_ticket


== Reading group ==

    We will discuss ""

    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 (2020-01-21):

    Wrapped up persistence layer in rdsys.

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/5

    Lots of handover work.

    Filed issue to make Relay Status page link to rdsys's bridge status
page.

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/metrics/relay-search/-/issues/40003

    More work on wrapping up censorship snapshot.

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/outreach/-/issues/28531

  Next week:


  Help with:



cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-01-28
Last week:
    - bump version of snowflake in tor-browser (tor-browser-build#40212)
    - improved logging for standalone proxies (snowflake#30498)
    - reviewed and deployed gettor/trac!16
    - edits to snowflake survey (snowflake#40007)
    - generalized distribution proportions for rdsys (rdsys#37)
    - work on anti-censorship hiring
    - upgraded snowflake broker and bridge machines
(https://www.sudo.ws/alerts/unescape_overflow.html)
    - adjusted how proxies handle NAT type checks (snowflake-webext#20)
    - knowledge transfer about bridgedb
This week:
    - snowflake overhead/throughput issues (snowflake#40026)
    - integrate gettor and rdsys (rdsys#32)
    - provide feedback on sproutsbot
    - sponsor 28 evaluation prep
    - pick up some rdsys tickets?
Needs help with:
    - review of snowflake!27

arlolra: 2020-10-29

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - getting back up to speed

    - follow ups to #33365

    - start on #31201

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-01-28

    Last week:

    - reviewed plan to reclassify unknown NAT as restricted
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/26

    Next week:

    - review proxy-go throughput logging
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/27

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-01-28

    Last week:

    -Research on httpt #4

    Next week:

    -(For sure) finish rdsys #6

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-1-28

    Last week:

    - Finished gettor #34058

    - Submitted merge request for emma #6

    Next week:

    - Start on bridgestrap #14

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -