[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 10 June 2021

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-10-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday June 10th 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.

== Announcements ==

    No announcements this week

== Discussion ==

- @meskio: you're working on gettor; are you in touch with the component
that uploads to https://archive.org/details/@gettor ? dcf thinks the way
files are organized in those uploads is unusual.
    -
https://blog.archive.org/2011/03/31/how-archive-org-items-are-structured/

    -
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/gettor/-/blob/fc9e1ed212d54cf682601a1caaa7e289a43d50cf/scripts/update_files#L38

    - Currently there's one file per item; it could be multiple files in
each item.
        - Could be one item per release: torbrowser-10.0.14

        - Or one item per release-arch: torbrowser-10.0.14-win64

        - Direct download links can point to the single files within the
item that they need, e.g.
https://archive.org/download/torbrowser-10.0.14/torbrowser-install-win64-10.0.14_zh-TW.exe

    - It would be good to get a second opinion from anarcat.


== Actions ==

    No actions this week

== Updates ==

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-06-10
Last week:
    - opened core/tor#40406 to discuss how we use the BridgeDistribution
option in Tor
    - FOCI reviews and PC meeting
    - deployed a new version of the snowflake broker
    - made progress on implementing support for vanilla bridges in rdsys
(rdsys#38)
    - following OONI's work on integrating snowflake and obfs4
    - anti-censorship team roadmapping and issue triaging
    - working on a snowflake blog post for the 10.5 release
    - worked on making the moat-shim deployment more secure
This week:
    - work on rdsys#38 as a prereq for rdsys#12
    - work on bridgedb#32276 deployment
    - follow up on arlo's snowflake broker work
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2021-06-10

    Last week:

    - More snowflake!39

    Next week:

    - Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10

    Help with:

    - snowflake !39


dcf: 2021-06-10

    Last week:

    - commented on broker components
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/39

    Next week:

    Help with:


agix:2021-06-10

    Last week:

    -Busy with university stuff

    Next week:

    -Work on bridgebox for rdsys

    -More research on httpt #4

    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: 2021-06-10

    Last week:

        - debian package snowflake included in the debian go-team
(looking for a mentor)
          https://salsa.debian.org/go-team/packages/snowflake
        - getting to learn the insides of gettor
        - start rdsys email implementation

    Next week:

    - MVP of gettor rewrite in rdsys (rdsys#32)

    Help with:

    -