Here are our meeting minutes:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-01-30-17.59.html
And here is our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday January 30th 18:00 UTC
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 18:00 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: https://dip.torproject.org/torproject/anti-censorship/roadmap/boards * Our roadmap consists of a subset of trac tickets. * The anti-censorship team's wiki page: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/AntiCensorshipTeam * Past meeting's notes can be found at: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/ * GetTor's roadmap: https://dip.torproject.org/groups/torproject/anti-censorship/gettor-project/... * Tickets that need reviews: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/query?status=needs_review&compo... * Projects from sponsors we are working on: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor30 * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/sponsors/Sponsor28
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== Announcements ==
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== Discussion ==
* Kyle Undergrad Thesis: Fingerprintability of Snowflake * Want to be auto-copied on any Circumvention subcategory on trac? Current config: * Circumvention: cohosh, phw * Circumvention/BridgeDB: cohosh, phw * Circumvention/Censorship analysis: cohosh, phw, dcf * Circumvention/Obfs4: cohosh, phw * Circumvention/Pluggable transport: cohosh, phw * Circumvention/Snowflake: cohosh, phw, arlolra, dcf * Circumvention/meek: cohosh, phw, dcf
== Actions ==
* Please add your monthly highlights to our january 2020 report * https://pad.riseup.net/p/qSHmkenLXX5yE0pW3_2y
== Interesting links ==
* NDSS'20 proceedings are out and have several censorship-related papers: https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2020/accepted-papers/ * "Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia" * https://censoredplanet.org/russia * https://censoredplanet.org/assets/russia.pdf * https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/20 * "Fingerprinting Network Censorship Boxes at Global Scale" * "Detecting Probe-resistant Proxies" * "SwarmProxy: Unblocking the Censored Web for the Masses" * "SymTCP: Eluding Stateful Deep Packet Inspection with Automated Discrepancy Discovery" * ICLab got into S&P'20: * https://people.cs.umass.edu/~phillipa/papers/oakland2020.pdf
== Updates ==
Name: This week: - What you worked on this week. Next week: - What you are planning to work on next week (related to anti-censorship work). Help with: - Something you may need help with.
Hiro: (last updated before 2020-01-09) Started restoring Twitter Responder. When retrieving tweets I need to check for new tweets only otherwise Gettor will end up responding to old back log and already answered messages. <-- is this #27330 ? Next Week: - Work on gettor specs <-- Is this #3781? - More with review of strings and website content and translation
phw: This week (2020-01-30): * Roadmap post-processing (e.g., formalising goal statements) * Asked for letters of support for our NSF TTP grant * Worked on bridge campaign retrospective (#33007) * More work on porting BridgeDB to Python 3 (#30946) * Several issues remained after Damian's great work because some tests are only run in CI env * ...and some issues only emerge when you actually run the thing. * Worked on Sponsor 30 report * Provided simple mockup design for new Relay Search item (#33008) * Took a brief look at the location of bridges for Sponsor 28 * Barely any in traditional cloud infrastructure (Amazon, Google, etc.) * Many hosted on VPS systems (Digital Ocean, OVH, Hetzner, ...) * Many hosted behind residential connections (long tail) * Worked on making BridgeDB CAPTCHAs more usable (#24607) * Forked isis's gimp-captcha, made it work with modern APIs, and made CAPTCHAs easier * Deployed a batch of new CAPTCHAs to BridgeDB * Reviewed OONI's design mockup for its new Tor test * Helped Simone figure out what exactly OONI should test * https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/967 * Worked on a bunch of simple BridgeDB documentation fixes (#31427) * Fixed a race condition in bridgestrap Next week: * Take a look at BridgeDB metrics to see if new CAPTCHAs helped users * Hopefully finish Python 3 port * Write a summary of our current BridgeDB distribution mechanisms and brainstorm new ones Help with: * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31872 * https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/31427
Gaba: () Last week (Jan 27nd): This week (planned): * sponsor 30 report
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2019-01-30 Last week: - grant revising - checked in on censorship measurements again - implemented snowflake throughput checks (#32938) - finish up localization fix for gettor (#33002) - started looking at all snowflake measurements collected to measure censorship and throughput and analyzing pcaps for clues of why proxies sometimes don't work (#32545) - reviewed snowflake refactors (#33100 and #33040) - review #33038, #31872, #31427
This week: - UI mock up for snowflake throughput check (#32938) - started some recurring throughput tests for snowflake (#32545) - Aggregate and write up a report of snowflake throughput changes - send grant to some external reviewers - maybe pick up gettor email body localization ticket (#28233)
Needs help with: - review of #31971 (from tor browser team, in progress) - review of #33002
arlolra: 2020-01-30 Last week: - started on #19026 Next week: - read up on turbo tunnel - continue with #19026 Help with: -
dcf: 2020-01-30 Last week: - turbo tunnel in Snowflake - Snowflake refactoring and code quality improvements (#33040, #33100, thanks cohosh for review) Next week: - turbo tunnel in Snowflake - do Let's Encrypt upgrade for Snowflake bridge (#32964) Help with: - review of #33038, representation of timeouts
cjb: 2019-01-30 Last week: - put up a patch for #31011 Next week: - would like to find out more about Snowflake + Android + Golang, since I've got some experience doing Android + Golang. Help with: - review of #31011 (perhaps teor)
agix:2020-01-30 Last week: -Started reading up on all the received ressources from phw -Started with #31426 Next week: -Work further on #31426 -Start with #31967 Help with: -I will definitely have some questions and the need for some help next week ^^