Hey everyone!
Here are the meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-10-01-15.58.html
And the meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday October 1st 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?sc...
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%...
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
Public bug-reporting pad:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep
== Announcements ==
Kyle MacMillan, Jordan Holland, and Prateek Mittal published a report on Snowflake distinguishability.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03254
== Discussion ==
How can we improve our terminology for bridges?
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/8
== Actions ==
== 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.
phw: This week (2020-10-01):
Reviewed antonela's Tor Browser design proposal for better circumvention.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-spec/-/issues/400...
Helping out with DRL grant application.
More work on rdsys; thinking about how feedback loop for blocked bridges should be handled.
Wrapped up bridgestrap MVP.
Next week:
Help with:
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-10-01 Last week: - finished preparations for next sponsor 28 evaluation of snowflake - reviewed bridgedb#31871 - reviewed anti-censorship/trac#31874 - implemented fix for snowflake#33157 - checked on tests running for snowflake#32657 This week: - revisit multiplexing ticket - revisit NAT-punching problems for symmetric NATs - write up collected snowflake throughput data from last month and draw some useful conclusions - catch up on rdsys work - follow up with guardian project on their snowflake integration work Needs help with: - review of snowflake!12 - review of snowflake-webext!4
juggy : This week: - Got very basic "suggested readings" list up and running here : https://jugheadjones10.github.io/anti-censorship-reading/ Next week: - Keep studying BridgeDB to write architectural overview Help with: - Open issues here (https://github.com/jugheadjones10/anti-censorship-reading ) for papers/resources/readings that you think might be useful for newcomers
arlolra: 2020-06-11
Last week:
-
Next week:
- follow ups to #33365
- start on #31201
Help with:
-
dcf: 2020-10-01
Last week:
- merged a patch from Peter Gerber to expand the set of IP addresses Snowflake considers local (for stripping from SDP offers) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Azure CDN bookkeeping
Next week:
Help with:
- is anything further needed for Azure CDN account access? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
Antonela: 2020-08-27
This week:
- Wrapping Babatunde's research on the use of circumvention tools during internet censorship in Africa. Wrapping Personas for s30 with it.
For september:
- We are planning interviews with users in China to run our bridges discovery issues script in real time. We discussed to include TBA + snowflake as a task for users to run over a week or two and report back.
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4
- I still have bridges.tpo to lektor issue open
- More work on UX/UI for TB 10.0/10.5
- Review Salmon related tickets (im late with it!)
agix:2020-10-01
Last week:
-Still on #34218 (Should finish it soon though)
-Started with #5 (rdsys)
-Read this weeks paper
Next week:
-Finish both tickets
Help with:
-
hanneloresx: 2020-09-17
Last week:
- Start on #33727
- Continue investigating and respond to comments on #32117
Next week:
- Continue last week's work.
Help with:
-
thymbahutymba: 2020-04-02 Last week: - CI/CD pipeline for multiarch docker images, which has a problem with the apt tor version even though the apt repository have been changed into the Dockerfile. Next week: Help with:
HashikD: 2020-08-27
This week:
- GSoC blog
Next week:
- Away on exams
Help with: -