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Job Opportunity- Rust Developer
by Patricia Robinson 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

** *Hi Everyone!* * We have two new job openings for Rust Developers! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/ <https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-developer-network-team/> If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Have a great week and thanks for helping us spread the word! :) Warmly, Patricia Robinson Tor Project, Inc. Recruiting Coordinator *

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Tor Browser Meeting moved to 2024-02-20
by Richard Pospesel 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Hi Everyone, Monday is a holiday so we'll be moving our regularly scheduled Tor Browser weekly meeting to Tuesday (2024-02-20) at 1500 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC IRC. best, -richadr

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-15
by meskio 15 Feb '24

15 Feb '24

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-15-15.57.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February 22 16:00 UTC Facilitator: shelikhoo 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: meskio == 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?s… * 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_na… == Announcements == * Elections in Indonesia (2024-02-14): https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=ID&since=2024-01-16&until=2024… * Belarus - General elections (2024-02-25): https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=BY&since=2024-01-16&until=2024… * Cambodia - Senate election (2024-02-25): https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=KH&since=2024-01-16&until=2024… == Discussion == * == Actions == == Interesting links == * FOCI registration is open (attendance is free): https://foci.community/register * February 19th == 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/snow… - 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_re… - fixed shadow integration tests - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - opened an issue for country-specific client rendezvous poll counts - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - 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-co… Next week: - review draft MR for unreliable data channels https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker - move snowflake-02 to new VM Help with: meskio: 2023-02-15 Last week: - catching up after long vacation Next week: - react to S96 code audit Shelikhoo: 2024-02-15 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 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 -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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Job Opportunity - Mullvad Browser Software Engineer (Contractor)
by Tyler Corn 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Hi Everyone! We have a new job opening for a Browser Software Engineer (Contractor)! https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/browser-software-engineer/ If you are or know someone who would be a good fit and wants to join our team, please apply/share. Have a great weekend and thanks for helping us spread the word! 🙂 Best, Tyler

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Announcing Onionspray 1.6.0 with a SECURITY fix for Onion Services rewriting proxies
by rhatto 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

Hello everyone, I'd like to announce Onionspray, a tool for setting up Onion Services for existing public websites, working as a HTTPS rewriting proxy: https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/ It's a fork of Alec Muffett's EOTK (https://github.com/alecmuffett/eotk) with many enhancements but retaining compatibility, and relying on C Tor until an alternative in Arti is available. The first Onionspray version is 1.6.0, following the pre-existing version sequence from EOTK. Security fixes: * This release fixes a CRITICAL security vulnerability related to upstream HTTPS certificate verification, which is detailed at https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/security/advisor… A related fix is also available for EOTK: https://github.com/alecmuffett/eotk/pull/116 We urge Onionspray users that were testing the software while it was being on it's early stages to upgrade ASAP to 1.6.0 and update their configurations, and we recommend that EOTK to the same with the corresponding patch. This issue might also affect other similar rewriting proxy setups, and we urge operators to review and fix their Onion Service configurations. Main improvements over EOTK: * MetricsPort support (for gathering metrics data from the tor instances). * Denial of Service (DoS) protections. * Circuit ID exporting to NGINX logs and optionally to the upstream proxy (through the X-Onion-CircuitID HTTP header). * Onionbalance v3 support ("softmaps" are working again). * Revamped documentation. * Installation procedures added for recent Debian and Ubuntu releases. * Tor and OpenResty upgraded to the latest versions. * Option to keep Onionspray running in the foreground (`--no-daemonize`). * Local healthcheck action (`--health-local`), useful for containerized execution. The full ChangeLog is available at https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/changelog/ For those wishing to switch from EOTK to Onionspray, there's a migration guide at https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/migrating/ We also welcome people to report issues, send merge requests etc: https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionspray/contact/ And we have a bunch of issues waiting for contributions: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionspray/-/issues Finally, I'd like to thank Alec Muffett for his important work with EOTK and for promoting Onion Services all these years :) Thanks! -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-08
by onyinyang 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-08-15.59.html And our meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/r.9574e996bb9c0266213d38b91b56c469 Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February1516:00 UTC Facilitator: meskio 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: onyinyang == 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?s… <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s…> * 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_na… == Announcements == * PSA: Elections in Pakistan Today!. == Discussion == * Internet outage in PK: * https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1755435530873888990 * > Disruptions to #mobile #Internet connectivity in #Pakistan have been observed on @telenorpakistan, @Zongers, and @jazzpk starting at 0200 UTC, despite assurances from @PTAofficialpk that mobile services would remain active on Election Day, February 8. https://radar.cloudflare.com/pk?dateRange=1d * https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/108298926901 * Elections in Azerbaijan yesterday, connectivity status unknown * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2023-02-08&until=2024-0… <https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2023-02-08&until=2024-0…> * Elections in Senegal earlier this week with Internet shutdown * Elections postponed to December 2024, Internet connection restored * == Actions == == Interesting links == * TorKameleon appeared at TrustCom/ITCCN 2023 * https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17544 * https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/trustcom2023/accepted-paper-list.phpITCCN-456 * Uses WebRTC data channels with Encoded Transforms, as discussed at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-February/0… * https://github.com/AfonsoVilalonga/TorKameleon * Previously discussed at 2023-10-19 meeting https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-anti-censorship-team-meeting-not… * FOCI registration is open (attendance is free): https://foci.community/register * February 19th == 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): 2024-02-08 * Last week: * - merged and deployed update to circumvention settings for Egypt * - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys-admin/-/merge_reque… * - opened issue for snowflake update in Tor Browser build * - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… * This week: * - create tor-browser-build MR for snowflake version bump * - update snowflake web[site, extension] translations * - update wasm-bindgen fork to fix some bugs and hopefully upstream changes * - tor-browser-build updates for lox wasm + bindings generation * - rebase and try out manifest v3 patch * - Conjure bridge maintenance * Needs help with: dcf: 2024-02-08 * Last week: * - reconfirmed eclips.is account(where the snowflake broker is hosted) * - "You have EUR 184.1 per month value of resources in use. If eclips.is were to transition to a (partly) paid service, would you be able to cover these costs from your own resources?" * Next week: * - review draft MR for unreliable data channels https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker * - move snowflake-02 to new VM Help with: meskio: 2023-12-21 Last week: - grant writing Next week: Shelikhoo: 2024-02-08 Last Week: * - HTTPS distributors in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/191 * - Merge request reviews Next Week/TODO: * - HTTPS distributors in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/191 * - Create Issue for "Merging webtunnel + lyrebird" * - Update WebTunnel Container Image * - Inspect Snowflake Situation In China onyinyang: 2023-02-08 * Last week(s): * - Continuing with bug fixing the syncing function, nearly finished * * This week: * - Finish up fixingproblemswith syncing functions * -Make Lox invitation endpoint only accessible via telegram * - 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 -- --- onyinyang GPG Fingerprint 3CC3 F8CC E9D0 A92F A108 38EF 156A 6435 430C 2036

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ebanam's monthly status report and user support report for January 2024
by ebanam 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Hello everyone, Last month there was a slight uptick in private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users which also involved helping users with installing Tor Browser, troubleshooting Tor Browser on Windows and using pluggable transports. Similar to last month, we got another couple of reports about the "Proxy Server Refused Connection" bug affecting users using Tor Browser for Android on Oppo devices.[0] Following is a breakdown of tickets our user support team handled in January: # Frontdesk (email support channel) * 450(↓) RT tickets created * 430(↓) RT tickets resolved Tickets by numbers: 1. 208(↑) RT tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 2. 115(↓) RT tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 3. 2(-) RT tickets: "Proxy Server Refused Connection" bug on Tor Browser for Android, affecting users with Oppo phones. Highlighting some other topics we received questions and feedback: 4. Circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 5. Question about how to contribute and volunteer.[1] 6. Question on how to setup Tor Browser Alpha for Alpha testing.[2] # Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal Support channel * 508(↓) tickets resolved Breakdown: * 485(↓) tickets on Telegram * 15(↓) tickets on WhatsApp * 8(↓) tickets on Signal Tickets by numbers: 1. 325(↓) tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 2. 16(↓) tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 3. 13(↓) tickets: private bridge requests from Chinese speaking users. 4. 3 tickets: Questions about using GetTor Highlighting some other topics we received questions about: 5. Help with installing Tor Browser on Linux. 6. Questions about Orbot: how to use obfs4 bridges and snowflake with Orbot. 7. PTs on Tor Browser 13 do not work with Windows 7 (issue is resolved with Tor Browser 13.0.8)[3]. # Highlights from the Tor Forum 1. How to start Tor Browser on Linux?[4] 2. New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 13.5a4[5]. Help us test initial implementation of Connect Assist on Tor Browser for Android. 3. Tor Browser unable to connect on Windows 10[6] Thanks! e. Note: (↑), (↓) and (-) are indicating if the number of tickets we received for these topics have been increasing, decreasing or have been the same from the previous month respectively. [0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41289 [1]: https://community.torproject.org/ [2]: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/become-tester/ [3]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42179 [4]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/how-to-start-tor-browser-on-linux/11202 [5]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-13-5a4/11386 [6]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-browser-cant-connect/11259

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cohosh's monthly status report, January 2024
by Cecylia Bocovich 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in January 2024. # Reputation-based bridge distribution Most of this month was spent on the integration of Lox with Tor Browser. The completed Lox module has now been merged. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/commit/10d5eb0… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/116 # Snowflake - Reviewed SQS rendezvous work https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, January 2024
by rhatto 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for January 2024 with the main relevant activities I have done during the period. ## 0. Research * Minor research activities related to The Onion Plan: https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionplan/ ## 1. Development ### Onionspray * Worked on Onionspray, a new Onion Services rewriting proxy based on EOTK: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionspray Details in an upcoming release/announcement message. ### Onionbalance * Improved the sketch design for implementing PoW: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionbalance/-/issues/13#n… * Organized tasks into milestones: * 0.2.3: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionbalance/-/milestones/1 * 0.3.0: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionbalance/-/milestones/2 ## 2. Support * Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services. * Did some support related to setting up Onion Services. ## 3. Organization Time spent (from the total available for Tor-related work): | Category | Percentage |---------------|------------ | Research | 3 | Development | 49 | Support | 8 | Organization | 40 |---------------|------------ | Total | 100 -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Nina’s Monthly Status Report: January, 2024
by Nina 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Hi! Below is my January’24 report! In January, I resolved 531 tickets: On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 404 On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 115 On WhatsApp (+447421000612) - 9 and on Signal (+17787431312) - 3. My main focus of work is to help Russian-speaking users use Tor Browser and circumvent internet censorship. In January, there was a visible increase in the number of users from Russia requesting bridges and assistance with connection to Tor. The spike is visible in the Metrics data [1]. The increase can be explained by the upcoming presidential elections in Russia in March'24 and the blocking of popular messengers like WhatsApp in some regions of Russia in the course of protests [2]. I also assisted with Russian localization, focusing on reviewing and approving existing translations and fixing minor errors. In January, we again faced an increased number of tickets from the OPPO phone owners, who struggle to use Tor Browser on their devices [3]. With the help of our users, I reported several minor issueslike: - bridges(a)torproject.org not working - check.torproject.org not working [4] Also in January I took part as a moderator in the Relay Operators Meetup[5]. [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2023-11-… <https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2023-11-…> [2] https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/01/24/widespread-telegram-whatsapp-outa… [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41289 [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/tor-check/-/issues… [5] https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-next-tor-relay-operator-meetup-20…

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