Hi all,

Here are our meeting minutes:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-09-17-15.59.html

And here is our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday September 17th 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 ==

* Our GitLab instance now supports open registration. * (As an experiment, for now.)

* No anti-censorship meeting next week, on Sep 24.

== Discussion ==

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== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

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== Reading group ==

* We will discuss "Triplet Censors: Demystifying Great Firewall's DNS Censorship Behavior" on 2020-10-01 * https://www.usenix.org/conference/foci20/presentation/anonymous * 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 (2020-09-17): * Turned last week's reading group discussion into GitLab issues: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt... * Proposed and implemented a "registration API" that HTTPT and other proxies can use to register themselves with rdsys: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/4 * Started updating GetTor links after somebody pointed out that its Tor Browser copies are outdated. * Dealt with my hosting provider because their SMTP server would reject monit's email as spam. It's fixed now. * Recorded 10-minute overview of Tor's anti-censorship efforts for University of Michigan class. * Plenty of rdsys work. * Made Salmon distributor work with HTTP streaming interface. * Simplified data structures and added unit tests. * Started working on technical blog post that talks about rdsys's design and implementation. * Experimented with integrating Google's reCAPTCHA. Seems difficult to proxy requests so that Google doesn't see client IP addresses :( Next week: * Help with: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/trac/-/issues/31874 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/31871 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/4

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-08-27 Last week: - deployed snowflake#40008 - started snowflake measurements in china to track performance and censorship attempts (snowflake#32657) - continuous monitoring of NAT situation - prep for being away next month - meeting with tunnel bear This week: - Away Needs help with: - still need a review of fix for snowflake#21314 (snowflake!9)

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: 2020-09-17 Last week: Next week: Help with:

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:2020-09-17 Last week: -Nothing to add for last week Next week: -Finish #34318 -Look into #31873 -Get familiar with Go and start to work on rdsys issue #5 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: -