Hi everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-02-25-15.58.html

and our meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday February 25th 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 <-- do we still need this? The label is 'for anticensorship team'

Public bug-reporting pad:

https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-bugs-keep

== Announcements ==

Snowflake user survey posted

https://blog.torproject.org/learning-more-about-tor-users

https://survey.torproject.org/index.php/491436

== Discussion ==

Snowflake bridge users suspiciously plateau at ~180 last week

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB69...

Possible blocking in Belarus

https://ntc.party/t/shift-in-tor-obfs4-and-meek-users-on-2021-02-13/890

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu...

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

https://www.protocol.com/china/i-built-bytedance-censorship-machine

== Reading group ==

We will discuss "Investigating Large Scale HTTPS Interception in Kazakhstan" on 2020-03-04

https://censoredplanet.org/assets/Kazakhstan.pdf

https://censoredplanet.org/kazakhstan

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.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2020-02-25 Last week: - patched stem on polyanthum to fix bridgedb#40006 issue - wrote bridgedb!13 to continue parsing remaining extrainfo descriptors if one was malformed - lots of interviews! - s28 meetings - started setting up network emulations for snowflake#40026 - worked on some logging patches to measure congestion for snowflake - helped a user debug possible blocking Belarus and found some interesting metrics: https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/46#issuecomment-782897099 This week: - connect bridgedb to rdsys (rdsys#12) - a few more sponsor 28 meetings - hiring interviews - congestion logging patches for snowflake#40026 - more work on snowflake throughput and overhead (snowflake#40026) - revise gettor.torproject.org instructions (gettor-web#1) Needs help with:

arlolra: 2020-10-29

Last week:

-

Next week:

- getting back up to speed

- follow ups to #33365

- start on #31201

Help with:

-

dcf: 2021-02-25

Last week:

Next week:

Help with:

Antonela: 2020-08-27

This week:

agix:2021-02-25

Last week:

-More research on httpt #4

-Inspired by cohosh's bridgebox I worked on a local test environment for rdsys, still facing issues with running bridgestrap locally

Next week:

-Fix issues regarding bridgestrap

Help with:

-

hanneloresx: 2021-2-11

Last week:

- Finished emma #6

Next week:

- Work on bridgestrap #14

Help with:

-

HashikD: 2021-01-22

This week:

-

Next week:

-

Help with: -