[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-22
Shelikhoo
shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Feb 22 16:18:02 UTC 2024
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-22-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, February 29 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: onyinyang
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)
This week's Facilitator: shelikhoo
== 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 the
Tor Project and Tor community.
== 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 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
* Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20150
== Announcements ==
* Belarus - General elections (2024-02-25):
https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=BY&since=2024-01-16&until=2024-02-16&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=tor
* Cambodia - Senate election (2024-02-25):
https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=KH&since=2024-01-16&until=2024-02-16&time_grain=day&axis_x=measurement_start_day&test_name=tor
* Ireland Constitution Amendment Referendum: March 8th
== Discussion ==
*
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
*
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "" on
*
* 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): 2024-02-15
Last week:
- caught up on manifest v3 updates
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests/21
- release new version of snowflake addon (0.7.3)
- updated addon stores
- updated website
- opened tor-browser-build MR to get SQS rendezvous in Tor Browser
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/913
- fixed shadow integration tests
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/242
- opened an issue for country-specific client rendezvous poll
counts
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40330
- caught up on dependency update backlog
- mostly caught up on review backlog
This week:
- review lox synchronization fix
- compile a list of next-steps for lox
- update wasm-bindgen fork to fix some bugs and hopefully
upstream changes
- tor-browser-build updates for lox wasm + bindings generation
- Conjure bridge maintenance
- more testing of available domain fronts
Needs help with:
dcf: 2024-02-15
Last week:
- snowflake azure CDN bookkeeping
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs/diff?version_id=31fa3979db6efcfdc2c95f49cf033824971f531c
Next week:
- review draft MR for unreliable data channels
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/219
- open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors
is nonzero
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40262#note_2886018
- parent:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40267
- open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker
- move snowflake-02 to new VM
Help with:
meskio: 2023-02-22
Last week:
- limit the size of requests in rdsys (rdsys!261)
- configure if web proxy headers are trusted in rdsys (rdsys!262)
- block connections to localhost in webtunnel (webtunnel!20)
- review HTTPS distributor in rdsys (rdsys!260)
Next week:
- draft an email to request bridges for lox in tor-relays (lox#56)
- moat distributor in rdsys
Shelikhoo: 2024-02-22
Last Week:
- [Merge Request]HTTPS distributors in rdsys:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/260
- [Research] Inspect Snowflake Situation In China
- [Merge Request] Update Renovate Golang version to
1.21(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/265)
- [Merge Request Review] Automatically build container
on release and push to our registry.
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/246)
- [Merge Request Review] client: Only accept
connections to remote hosts
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel/-/merge_requests/20)
- Attend Online FOCI
- Merge request reviews
Next Week/TODO:
- Inspect Snowflake Situation In China
- Create Issue for "Merging webtunnel + lyrebird"
- Update WebTunnel Container Image
onyinyang: 2023-02-15
Last week(s):
- Finished up fixing problems with syncing functions
- Opened ticket to Lox invitation endpoint only accessible via
telegram
This week:
- redeploy rdsys and lox-distributor with bug fixes and
telegram bot
- improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is
working/valuable
- start prep for HACS/DRL meeting
- sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum
- attempt hyper upgrade again
(long term things were discussed at the meeting!):
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep
- brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of
bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are
distributed/use in practice
Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and
how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate
resources to people?
1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we
can already consider?
e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges
sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a
requesting user's geoip or something?)
2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so
trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access
to 1)? More? Less?
theodorsm: 2023-01-11
Last weeks:
- Currently in the start phase of writing my master thesis
(to be finished late june 2024) in communication technology on reducing
distinguishability of DTLS. The goal is to implement a validated DTLS
anti-fingerprinting library similar to uTLS (useful for Snowflake).
Next weeks:
- Talk with Sean DuBois about contributing to adding
anti-fingerprinting capabilities to the pion library
Help with:
- Find recent data set of captured DTLS traffic
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