[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 27 May 2021

Thu May 27 16:24:39 UTC 2021

Hey everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-05-27-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday May 27th 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 ==

    Snowflake user survey report published

    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ux/2021-May/000569.html

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/raw/master/reports/2021/public-snowflake-survey-report.pdf?inline=false

== Discussion ==

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

    https://www.jacobo.org/ansible-snowflake/

== 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 2020-05-27
Last week:
    - deployed new version of snowflake probetest
    - fixed up moat shim for bridgedb#32276 and started deployment
    - revised snowflake!26 for snowflake#29293
    - responded to problems with IPtProxy (snowflake#40045)
    - roadmapping and ticket maintenance
    - reviewed snowflake!34
    - took a look at arlo's refactor for splitting the broker into
components (snowflake!36)
    - provided some feedback for ooni on PT tests during the community
meeting
    - started some new performance tests for snowflake (snowflake#40026,
snowflake#32545)
This week:
    - more performance investigations for snowflake#40026
    - work more on snowflake documentation (snowflake#40031)
    - rdsys + bridgedb integration work (rdsys#12)
    - follow up on NAT testbed (snowflake#25595)
Needs help with:
    - review of snowflake#29293

arlolra: 2021-05-20

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    - Maybe more !39

    Help with:

    - !37

    - !39

dcf: 2021-05-27

    Last week:

    - reviewed prometheus metrics refactoring
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/37

    - helped debug IPtProxy problems
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40045

    Next week:

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

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

    - merge resource leak fix
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/34

    Help with:

Antonela: 2020-08-27

    This week:

agix:2021-05-27

    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: 2021-04-29

    Last week:

    - Busy w/ life and new job, but been looking at
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25595
and working on a Docker-based network testbed POC

    Next week:

    - Really want to have a POC to show/get feedback on

meskio: 2021-05-27

    Last week:

        - explore rdsys code
        - make a flatpak package for snowflake proxy (snowflake#19409)

    Next week:

    - debian package snowflake client and proxy (snowflake#19409)

    - start gettor rewrite in rdsys (rdsys#32)

    Help with:

    -

HashikD: 2021-01-22

    This week:

    -

    Next week:

    -

    Help with: -