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: -