[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 03 June 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hey everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-03-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday June 3rd 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

    Public bug-reporting pad:

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep <-- we have
anonymous tickets handling now. Let's see which anti-censorship repos to
include.


== Announcements ==

    we're starting to work on a Conjure PT for Tor


== Discussion ==

    produce snowflake releases

    need signed git tags (tags also useful for go modules) and a
documented release process

    tarballs not necessary, for debian at least


== Actions ==

    add to the monthly report: https://pad.riseup.net/p/gzx2ELX_6sFoh_8Xsw77


== Interesting links ==



== Reading group ==

    We will discuss "" on


    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 2020-06-03
Last week:
    - fix HTML injection issue with bridgedb (bridgedb#40014)
    - update version of snowflake in Tor Browser (tor-browser-build#40302)
    - worked on s28 deliverables
    - revised and merged snowflake!36
    - reviewed snowflake!40
    - wrote up a detailed plan on how to integrate bridgedb with rdsys
(rdsys#12)
    - created some new issues for rdsys work
    - gave feedback to NAT testbed (snowflake#25595)
This week:
    - more performance investigations for snowflake#40026
    - work on rdsys#38 as a prereq for rdsys#12
    - work on bridgedb#32276 deployment
    - follow up on arlo's snowflake broker work
    - work on a blog post for the snowflake release in TB stable
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2021-05-20

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - Maybe more !39

    Help with:

    - !37

    - !39


dcf: 2021-06-03

    Last week:

    - main branch name change in goptlib and meek
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/6

    - more review of Snowflake JSON rendezvous
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/36

    - made a ticket to upgrade snowflake bridge for tor security fix
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40050

    Next week:

    Help with:


Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:


agix:2021-06-03

    Last week:

    -Busy with university stuff

    Next week:

    -Work on bridgebox for rdsys

    -More research on httpt #4

    Help with:

    -


hanneloresx: 2021-3-4

    Last week:

    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14

    Next week:

    - Finish bridgestrap #14

    - Find new issue to work on

    Help with:

    -


maxb: 2021-06-03

    Last week:

    - Made some improvements to github.com/max-b/nat-testing for
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25595


    - Now have separate containers for each piece along w/ a reasonably
simulated network topology

    - Got really good feedback from cohosh as always

    Next week:

    - Make config fixes cohosh suggested

    - Implement alternative NAT types

    - Add testing wrapper w/ "pass/fail" conditions


meskio: 2021-06-03

    Last week:

        - debian package snowflake client and proxy (snowflake#19409)
        - getting acquaintanced with gettor and rdsys

    Next week:

    - gettor rewrite in rdsys (rdsys#32)

    Help with:

    -


HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -