Here is the meeting log:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2020/tor-meeting.2020-07-23-15.58.html

And the meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday July 23rd 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

== Announcements ==

The cost for Snowflake broker CDN service was non-zero, 0.01 USD, for the first time last month.

On track for 0.02 USD in July.

== Discussion ==

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

Relevant papers from Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2020. There's one on VPN usage, two on decoy routing, and one on rendezvous using cryptocurrency.

https://petsymposium.org/2020/program_UTC.php

Emotional and Practical Considerations towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII

Running Refraction Networking for Real

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue4/popets-2020-0073.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDYKdy7lCRY

SiegeBreaker: An SDN Based Practical Decoy Routing System

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0051.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7mHOKFtcYA

MoneyMorph: Censorship Resistant Rendezvous using Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue3/popets-2020-0058.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnc2i64rXvI

== Reading group ==

We will discuss "Emotional and Practical Considerations Towards the Adoption and Abandonment of VPNs as a Privacy-Enhancing Technology" on July 23rd

https://petsymposium.org/2020/files/papers/issue1/popets-2020-0006.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jksejehBQII

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 (2020-07-23):

Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#27984.

Reviewed tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake#40002.

Spent a lot of time working on design of BridgeDB rewrite:

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/32900#no...

Next week:

Wrap up tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger#34259.

Help with:

Thoughts on tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb#32900 greatly appreciated.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-07-23 Last week: - sponsor 28 evaluation bullshit, mostly - added more stun servers to client (snowflake#30579) - reviewed snowflake-mobile tickets - talked with phw about bridgedb re-write This week: - take a look at #25595 - NAT discovery at proxies (snowflake-webext#13) - snowflake sponsor 28 evaluation (monday, tuesday) - update tor-browser-build#40016 with work on snowflake#30579 - continue with GetTor + BridgeDB refactor Needs help with: - review of snowflake#30579 (snowflake!7)

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 paper/resource/reading

arlolra: 2020-06-11

Last week:

-

Next week:

- follow ups to #33365

- start on #31201

Help with:

-

dcf: 2020-07-23

Last week:

- updated markup in the Snowflake wiki page for gitlab

- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

Next week:

- find out what went wrong with trying to give cohosh CDN access (snowflake#30510)

- set up an etherpad for public bug reporting and link it from https://snowflake.torproject.org/#bugs (snowflake#34435)

Help with:

Antonela: 2020-07-23

Last week:

- (S28) Snowflake Android App UI

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- (S30) Making bridges.tpo looks like tpo.org

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322

- (S30) Planning activities for the user group in HK (happening next week):

- Run emma

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/blob/master/scripts%20and%20...

- Discovery issues with Bridges flow - working on the script

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4

This week:

- (S28) Review Snowflake Android App UI

- (S30) Working on making bridges.tpo work with lektor

- (S30) Sent Get Bridges User Research to the group in HK. Will meet them on Friday. Final script: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/4

agix:2020-07-02

Last week:

-Worked on #27984

Next week:

-Work on #34318

Help with:

-Review of #27984 (It's just a feedback implementation)

hanneloresx: 2020-07-23

Last week:

- Read existing documentation for BridgeDB.

- Started investigating #32117

Next week:

- Work on #32117

- Work on #33727

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: 2020-07-16

Last week:

- Made designs for Snowflake mobile: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- #6 Showing users stat about how many clients they served in the past 24

Next week:

- Work on ticket #11

Help with: -