[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-04-28
Shelikhoo
shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Apr 28 17:19:12 UTC 2022
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-28-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday May 5th 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 check-in 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?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
* 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%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None
* Sponsor 96
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
== Announcements ==
* polyanthum & gettor-01 will be upgraded next week, the servers
where bridgedb,rdsys,gettor and other anti-censorship infra is hosted
== Discussion ==
* Distributed Snowflake Server Support
* Any feedbacks?
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40129#note_2797319
* No blocker issue discovered.
* will first deploy the new broker, and give time for proxies
to update
* removed smallerRichard builtin server
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/44
* RKS hackathon
* (Discussion Skipped)
== Actions ==
*
== Interesting links ==
*
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kazakhstan-shut-down-its-internet-these-programmers-opened-a-backdoor/
* https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/114
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on
Apr/28th/2022
* https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836
* https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/108
* 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.
anadahz: 2022-01-27
Last week:
- Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and
default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merge_requests/1
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14
Last week:
- moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library
(snowflake#40124)
- merge request: snowflake!85
- bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)
- merge request: snowflake!86
- commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)
- opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor
browser (tor-browser-build#40474)
- work on conjure test environment setup
This week:
- continue work on conjure PT
- continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-04-28
Last week:
- made graphs of the snowflake bridge since the server move 2
weeks ago
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40111#note_2799042
Next week:
- look at STATUS VERSION proposal
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
- set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2797271
Help with:
arlolra: 2022-04-07
Last week:
- Merged the rest of snowflake !81
Next week:
- Get to snowflake-webext #10
Evergreen:
- Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and
used
- Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_2764731
Help with:
-
maxb: 2021-09-23
Last week:
- Worked on
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054
re: utls for broker negotiation
- Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round
tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74
- Too busy with work :/
Next week:
- _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper
meskio: 2022-04-28
Last week:
- use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to
distribute (rdsys#96)
- give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107)
- removed smallerRichard builtin bridge (team#44)
- brainstorm on dnstt (trac#40001)
Next week:
- deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#101)
- advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment
Shelikhoo: 2022-04-28
Last Week:
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to
snowflake (snowflake!64)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
- [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection
Server on TPA managed VPS
- [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges
with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription")
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment
- Dockerlized
- [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker
Next Week:
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
- [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake
churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)
- [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24
Itchy Onion: 2022-04-28
Last week:
- debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue
- had a meeting with Georgetown folks (a recurring meeting to
go over each other's channel code)
This week:
- go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next
Georgetown meeting and also help with rebase snowflake rebasing)
- go over RACECAR docs
HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16
This week:
Last/done:
Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space
Next:
Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain
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