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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-15
by Itchy Onion 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hey everyone! Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-15-15.59.log… And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship team meeting pad-------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, Dec 15 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 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 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&… - Sponsor 96 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == - No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7 == Discussion == - Is snowflake blocked in russia? - it doesn't seem to have much usage there and the vantage point seems to indicate it doesn't work - we'll change circumvention settings to recommend first obfs4 bridges == Actions == - we should investigate if snowflake is blocked in russia (circumvention settings is recommending snowflake in russia, I wonder if we should change that) == 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): last updated 2022-11-24 - Last week: - - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122) - This week: - - continue work on conjure client - - more work on reputation-based bridge dist - - fixup snowflake!108 - Needs help with: dcf: 2022-12-14 - Last week: - - made the number of KCP state machines a command-line option and merged it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - - brought the snowflake bridge installation guide up to date with current settings https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Gui… - - deployed current performance settings on snowflake-02 bridge - - changed srcaddr in extor-static-cookie to a transport option from a command-line option, like in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/extor-static-cookie/-/commit/61e0684e40f8… - - had the IP addresses of snowflake-02 added to DDoS mitigation scripts https://github.com/steinex/tor-ddos/issues/2 https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-relay-lists/issues/2 - - opened an issue for a duplicate flag name in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - - started an experiment to increase the size of the conntrack table on snowflake-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - Next week: - - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public - - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs… - - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 - - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_282… - - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429 - Help with: meskio: 2022-12-15 Last week: - figure out why onionsproutsbot freezees in our server (onionsproutsbot#47) - add support for multiple shim-tokens for moat (rdsys#118) - remove unused DKIM header verification from BridgeDB (bridgedb!51) - catching up with outreachy duties Next week: - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11) - make onionsproutsbot work in systemd (onionsproutsbot#47) - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008) Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08 Last Week: - - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support - - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/http… - [Merge Request] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurem… - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/…) Next Week: - - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15 Last week: - - worked on RACE performance issue - [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" - reviewed some MRs This week: - - Work on the RACE performance issue - - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag - - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server hackerncoder: 2022-12-15 last week/earlier this week: - worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter Next week/later this week: - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake) - work on monitoring bridges health

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-08
by Shelikhoo 08 Dec '22

08 Dec '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-08-15.58.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html> And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, Dec 15 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 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 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&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * Cece is the new Outreachy intern working on Rdsys (adding a new social media platform) until March 5th! Please welcome her to the team! * No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7 * Tor Browser 12.0 has the snowflake-02 bridge * https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/ * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/91DA221A149007D0FD9E5515F578… == Discussion == * snowflake-02 is live in TB 12 * not in Orbot yet * plan to see how things go in Tor Browser, bring it up with Orbot in sponsor 96 meeting in January 2023 * make obfs4 distinguishability reports public? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 * we were waiting for a threshold of 50% of bridges to upgrade * some emails to gmail.com in the last batch of notifications bounced (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-December/003519.html) * we'll send one more batch of notifications, then plan to make public after the break on 2023-01-09 * does ajax.aspnetcdn.com still work in turkmenistan?? * it might be working, and we only use it for meek * snowflake uses cdn.sstatic.net * curl and dig tests are not showing injection for ajax.aspnetcdn.com nor cdn.sstatic.net from outside (https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/80#issuecomment-906533865) * rwails and NRL working on a new pluggable transport * any compatibility issues between C-tor and Arti? probably not. * how to run a PT in arti: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/333 == Actions == == Interesting links == * https://ntc.party/t/ajax-aspnetcdn-com/3571 * Reported block of ajax.aspnetcdn.com in Russia, by TSPU, since mid-November? * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=web_connectivity&… == 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): last updated 2022-11-24 Last week: - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122) This week: - continue work on conjure client - more work on reputation-based bridge dist - fixup snowflake!108 Needs help with: dcf: 2022-12-08 Last week: - disabled non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - merged some snowflake-server performance improvements, thanks itchyonion - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - asked to have snowflake-01's other IP addresses excepted in DDoS mitigation scripts https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - performance tuning on snowflake-02 bridge - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide - have snowflake-02's outgoing IP address added to DDoS mitigation scripts - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_282… - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429 Help with: meskio: 2022-12-08 Last week: - update gettor/onionsproutsbot for the Tor Browser release - investigate why systemd freezes onionsproutsbot (onionsproutsbot#47) - some bridges appear offline in metrics.tpo (team#112) - support onbasca attempts to test bridge speed (onbasca#130) - onboard our outreachy intern - review merge request to use a different network on docker bridge images (docker-obfs4-proxy!10) Next week: - add localization support to rdsys Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/http… - [Merge Request Done] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser - [Merge Request Done] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1" Next Week: - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - [Coding] More Reliable Raw Log Upload For log collector Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24 Last week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results) This week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts) - review some MRs

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Applications team no longer updating gitolite repos
by Richard Pospesel 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hi everyone, With the 12.0 release almost out the door, the applications team will no longer be pushing commits to our git.torproject.org (gitolite) repos. All future code updates will only be pushed to our various gitlab.torproject.org (Gitlab) repos. best, -Richard

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minutes from the sysadmin meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Here's your monthly microdose of sysadmin news, happy holidays for people that have them... # Roll call: who's there and emergencies the usual fires. anarcat, kez, lavamind present. # Dashboard review Normal per-user check-in: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… General dashboards: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards/117 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/web/-/boards * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/tpa/-/boards # 2023 roadmap discussion Discuss and adopt TPA-RFC-42: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-42-roadma… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40924 Revised proposal: * do the bookworm upgrades, this includes: * puppet server 7 * puppet agent 7 * plan would be: * Q1-Q2: deploy new machines with bookworm * Q1-Q4: upgrade existing machines to bookworm * email services improvements (TPA-RFC-44 2nd generation) * upgrade Schleuder and Mailman * self-hosting Discourse? * complete the cymru migration (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-40) * retire gitolite/gitweb (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-36) * retire SVN (e.g. execute TPA-RFC-11) * monitoring system overhaul (TPA-RFC-33) * deploy a Puppet CI Meeting on wednesday for the web stuff. Proposal adopted. Worries about our capacity at hosting email, some of the concerns are shared inside the team, but there doesn't seem to be many other options for the scale we're working at. # Holidays confirmation Confirmed people's dates of availability for the holidays. # Next meeting January 9th. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 94, LDAP: 94, Prometheus exporters: 163 * number of Apache servers monitored: 31, hits per second: 744 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 9 * pending upgrades: 0, reboots: 4 * average load: 0.83, memory available: 4.46 TiB/5.74 TiB, running processes: 745 * disk free/total: 33.12 TiB/92.27 TiB * bytes sent: 404.70 MB/s, received: 230.86 MB/s * planned bullseye upgrades completion date: 2022-11-16, AKA "suspicious completion time in the past, data may be incomplete" * [GitLab tickets][]: 183 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 152 * backlog: 14 * next: 9 * doing: 5 * needs information: 3 * (closed: 2954) [Gitlab tickets]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/boards Upgrade prediction graph lives at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/howto/upgrades/bullseye/ Now also available as the main Grafana dashboard. Head to <https://grafana.torproject.org/>, change the time period to 30 days, and wait a while for results to render. # Number of the month Three hundred thousand. The number of subscribers to the Tor newsletter (!). -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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HackerNCoder's Monthly Status Report for November 2022
by HackerNCoder 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hello all! I'm HackerNCoder, and I will be contracting for the Tor Project until May. I am working on anti-censorship, monitoring blocks and getting data about how those blocks work so we can better respond, focused on Iran. Here is my status report for November 2022: Half of my time was spent on onboarding and getting to know what I would be doing. In the other half I worked on two scripts[1] and looked at the OONI api, and worked on a script to monitor new censorship. HackerNCoder [1] https.//gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/torblocks

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Joydeep's Monthly Status Report for November 2022
by Joydeep Sen Gupta 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hello everyone! Here are my updates from November. Continuing my work with helping users in Iran amidst the heavy censorship[1], I was able to respond to a little over 200 user support requests from Iran. We have established a user feedback loop with the users and constantly monitoring any new developments. In light of the recent changes to the circumvention map of Connection Assist[2] for users in China and Hong Kong, I have been working to get feedback from users in this region. Although I haven't got a ton of user feedback, the most of the users I have interacted with have confirmed of better connectivity confirming the surge in users we have seen on Metrics[3]. In preparation[4] for the next major Tor Browser stable release (Tor Browser 12), I did a alpha testers call during the Tor localization hangout[5] and along with Nina (@nina13) review of all the internal support documentation we maintain. Now, a quick overview of our user support channels: Timeline: 01 - 30 November 2022 # Frontdesk tickets created: 899 tickets resolved: 933 Most frequent tickets by numbers: 1. 70 RT Tickets - Private Bridge requests from China[6] 2. 31 RT Tickets - Circumventing Censorship with Tor in Iran. 3. 30 RT Tickets - How to use a Tor Bridge in Russia[7] 4. 5 RT Tickets - Tor Browser for Android 11.5.9 crashing on launch[8] # Telegram and Signal Support channel (cdr.link) tickets resolved: 536 The other most frequent ticket we received have been about: 1. 198 tickets: Circumventing censorship in Iran. 2. 157 tickets: Circumventing censorship in Russia 3. 17 tickets - Using unlisted obfs4 bridges in China # Tor Forum Most popular topics in the Support category (in terms of no. of views): 1. "Snowflake proxies for Iran"[9] 2. "Cannot visit Reddit through Tor Browser since most recent update?"[10] 3. "Is there a list of blocked websites?"[11] 4. "Cannot Connect Tor Browser"[12] 5. "Big drop in Snowflake traffic"[13] Thanks, -- Joydeep [1]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/iran-circumventing-censorship-with-tor/4590 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/99 [3]: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2022-09-… [4]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40096 [5]: https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ [6]: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-china/ [7]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-blocked-in-russia-how-to-circumvent-cens… [8]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41481 [9]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/snowflake-proxies-for-iran/5373/ [10]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/cannot-visit-reddit-through-tor-browser-sinc… [11]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/is-there-a-list-of-blocked-websites/5527/ [12]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/cannot-connect-tor-browser/5588/ [13]: https://forum.torproject.net/t/big-drop-in-snowflake-traffic/5640/

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Nina's Monthly status report for November'22
by Nina 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Hi! This is my status report for November 2022. This month, I successfully resolved 608 tickets. On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 506 On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 102 We still get a lot of requests from Iran; however, in November, I resolved more requests from Russian users. Also, I continue to support Turkmenistan users in accessing the uncensored Internet. Most users' requests are related to connecting to Tor using pluggable transports and troubleshooting. We also got many questions related to the snowflake and running snowflake proxies/installing the snowflake extension. Some requests were related to the issues with the 11.5.9 version of Tor Browser for Android. I also collect users' feedback from different regions to understand what software they use to connect to Tor and what ways of censorship circumvention work better. Anticipating the new 12 version of Tor Browser, @championquizzer and I started to review and refresh the existing support templates/articles and check what needs to be updated. I also found and submitted minor issues and ideas with the @gettor_bot [1] and @getbridgesbot [2]. I helped with Russian translation for a campaign to prepare users for a possible internet shutdown in Kazakhstan related to the presidential elections in the country [3]. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/OnionSprou… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/137 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/155…

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, November 2022
by rhatto 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for November 2022 with the main activities I have done during the period. ## 0. The Onion Plan 2022.Q4 release! Since the [Onion Plan session][] at the 2022 Tor Meeting, I started doing a research on existing and new proposals for Onion Services, like human-friendly names, HTTPS certificates and tooling. The research is far from complete, but now it's finally ready for release: * https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/onionplan/ * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionplan/ I would like to thank Raya for doing the Outreach sections as well as all the people contributing with the discussion! Hopefully this work will continue in 2023 and help setting a roadmap for improving Onion Services usability :) ## 1. Onion Launchpad security analysis I also did a thorough analysis on censorship and security considerations for Onion Launchpad -- an Onion Services landing page --, including an upcoming and optional privacy-preserving page hit metric collection feature: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-launchpad/-/issues/3… * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-launchpad/-/issues/65 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-launchpad/-/issues/66 ## 2. Sponsor 123 And, as usual, I've done the regular Sponsor 123 deployments, monitoring, maintenance and development. [Onion Plan session]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/team/-/wikis/202209MeetingOnionPlan -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Marco's Monthly Status Report | November 2022
by msim 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Hi o/ Here's my monthly status report for November 2022. Well, by monthly what I mean to say is since mid November :) - I had to take a short month and a half break since the start of October due to some other commitments, but I've been back since the 14th of November. At the start of my return, my first goal was to migrate my work to get WebRTC building under MinGW to the latest alpha[0]. Then, in some spare time between builds, I started browsing some old tickets and decided to bug 25916, for which I created a merge request for[1], however after discussion it was decided that it would be better to expand the scope of this issue to include all environment variables that could influence sandboxing. After migrating the WebRTC build-related code to the latest alpha, I started getting WebRTC to work. Previously, I used WebRTC samples/tests available online (from both Mozilla and the WebRTC GitHub pages), combined with some debugging tools to assess what was failing. During my short break, however, I was toying around with firefox and learning to test WebRTC with inbuilt tests. And so, to progress on getting WebRTC to work, I will now be using the inbuilt tests and fixing whatever's wrong with those to progress. So far, this has proved incredibly more efficient than my previous approach and has revealed that a handful of tests that were failing were purely related to preferences that we set as defaults. Some metrics as far as WebRTC tests (currently under Linux x86_64 only) go: At the beginning, there were 84779/84833 tests passing (54 failing tests). Currently, there are 91331/91356 tests passing (25 failing, but considerably more being triggered) For December, the main priority is to get all tests passing on linux and at least make decent progress on getting tests passing on Windows. This involves setting up a development environment on windows instead of just a testing environment, as I can't run mach tests without building on the same machine (unless anyone knows how to :) ) All the best! Marco [0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests…

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Cecylia's monthly status report, November 2022
by Cecylia Bocovich 02 Dec '22

02 Dec '22

Hi everyone, This is my status report for contract work done in November 2022. # Conjure development I've made some progress on deploying a Tor PT for Conjure[0] in alpha versions of Tor Browser[1], such as: * allowing client args to passed in as SOCKS args https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… * helping the client recover and retry if the phantom connection fails due to high station load https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… * setting up safe log scrubbing at the bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… * setting up a domain front for client registrations https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… There's a little more work to do in getting the domain front set up, but the tor browser integration is ready to submit for review. Test builds are available at https://people.torproject.org/~cohosh/conjure-torbrowser/ # Bridge reputation system This month I started work on integrating a reputation-based bridge distribution system into our ecosystem. The month started with an analysis of the system and integration details of Lox[2], and work on a test integration is underway[3][4][5]. # Snowflake web extension We've had a lot of volunteer contributions to the web extension this month. I reviewed and merged these requests. I also worked on the following: * Finished fixing up localization (thanks emmapeel!) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/105 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-wasm [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-distributor [5] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-server

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