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ebanam's monthly report and user support report for January 2025
by ebanam 05 Feb '25

05 Feb '25

Hello everyone, Similar to the past few months most of my work last month focussed on helping users in regions where Tor is censored, which includes helping users with instructions to download Tor Browser binaries from GetTor and/or official mirrors, verifying Tor Browser's GPG signature, help with using censorship circumvention methods that works best for them and overall troubleshooting. We saw a massive uptick in support requests from Chinese speaking users most of which can be attributed … [View More]to the backlog of tickets I had to answer coming from the holiday break. I also made some minor documentation updates, 1) updated articles for Tor Browser 13.5 legacy updates with Tor Browser 13.5.11[0], 2) Onion service documentation on the Community Portal[1]. Following is a more detailed report about the tickets our user support team worked on last month. # Frontdesk (email user support channel) * 627(↓) RT tickets created * 780(↑) RT tickets resolved Tickets by topics and numbers: 1. 425(↑) RT tickets: instructions to circumvent censorship for Chinese speaking users. 2. 191(↓) RT tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 3. 11(↓) RT tickets: WebTunnel bridges campaign. 4. 5(↓) RT tickets: help with installing Tor Browser for Desktop. 5. 5(↓) RT tickets: questions about how Tor works - is my IP visible when using Tor? what application level protections I get when using Tor Browser? what are 'Security Levels' in the Tor Browser etc. 6. 5(↓) RT tickets: reports of websites blocking Tor connections. 7. 5(↑) RT tickets: questions about how one can contribute to Tor - code, documentation, localization, etc. 8. 5(↑) RT tickets: questions about onion services and how to access them. 9. 4(↑) RT tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 10. 4(↓) RT tickets: help with troubleshooting existing Tor Browser install on Desktop (Windows, macOS and Linux). 11. 4(↑) RT tickets: reports of anti-virus software blocking Tor Browser (these were false alarms, see https://support.torproject.org/tbb/tbb-10/) 12. 3(↑) RT tickets: help with setting up a Snowflake proxy. 13. 3(↑) RT tickets: questions about setting up a bridge relay. 14. 3(↑) RT tickets: help with using bridges and snowflake with little-t-tor. 15. 2(↓) RT tickets: reports of a fake apps on iOS AppStore masquerading as official Tor Browser. 16. 2(↑) RT tickets: help with troubleshooting Tor Browser Android. 17. 1(↓) RT ticket: instructions to download Tor Browser 13.5 legacy for legacy operating systems. # Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal Support channel * 856(↓) tickets resolved Breakdown: * 839(↓) tickets on Telegram * 17(↓) tickets on WhatsApp * 0(↓) tickets on Signal Tickets by topics and numbers: 1. 579(↓) tickets: circumventing censorship in Russian speaking countries. 2. 30(↑) tickets: instructions to circumvent censorship for Chinese speaking users. 3. 12(↓) tickets: circumventing censorship with Tor in Farsi. 4. 14(-) tickets: helping users on iOS, using Onion Browser or Orbot, to use censorship circumvention methods. 5. 5(↓) tickets: help with troubleshooting Tor Browser Desktop on Windows, macOS and Linux. 6. 4(↓) tickets: help with instructions to use bridges with Tails. 7. 4(↑) tickets: questions about onion services and how to access them. 8. 2(-) tickets: users seeing a "proxy refused" error when visiting websites on Tor Browser for Android using Samsung devices.[2] 9. 1(↓) ticket: instructions on how to get Tor Browser binaries from GetTor. 10. 1(↓) tickets: instructions to download Tor Browser 13.5 legacy for legacyoperating systems. 11. 1(↑) ticket: question about the differences in various security levels in the Tor Browser. 12. 1(-) ticket: help with using bridges and snowflake with little-t-tor. 13. 1(↑) ticket: report of a fake app on iOS AppStore masquerading as official Tor Browser. # Highlights from the Tor Forum 1. Configuring little-t-tor to use pluggable transports.[3] 2. JavaScript and extensions / add-ons with Tor Browser.[4] 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. best, e. [0]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40178 [1]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/merge_requests/412 [2]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42714 [3]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/webtunnel-bridges-work-with-tor-browser-but-… [4]: https://forum.torproject.org/t/struggling-with-javascript-and-add-ons-in-to… [View Less]

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Repurposing the Global South Mailing List
by Za'atar زَعْتَر 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hello, The Global South mailing list has been quiet for some time, and the Tor community team has decided to repurpose it for Tor partners in the Global South. Moving forward, we will use it to share updates on activities such as online meetups, Privacy Resilience Grants, in-person training-of-trainers opportunities (Tor Training Academy), and more. The list will be refreshed today, Tuesday, February 4th. We invite everyone to join the Tor forum: https://forum.torproject.org/ Thank you, Za'atar

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intrigeri's report, January 2025
by intrigeri 04 Feb '25

04 Feb '25

Hi, User-visible ============ I've reviewed and supported the work of my team-mates on a number of high priority user-visible improvements. User-invisible ============== Apart of the usual amount of KTLO work: - I've been coordinating the search for new maintainers for Metadata Cleaner: https://forum.torproject.org/t/metadata-cleaner-is-looking-for-a-new-co-mai… - I have automated some Git operations that were previously done manually every time we merged changes into our main … [View More]

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Nina’s Monthly Status Report, January, 2025
by Nina 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hi! Below is my January’25 report! In January, I resolved a total of 904 tickets, a decrease of 775 from the previous month (total: 1679): - RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 191 (↓28) - Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 712 (↓747) - WhatsApp (+447421000612) - 1 (1) - Signal (+17787431312) - 0 (0). My main focus in January (and always) was supporting Russian-speaking users in bypassing internet censorship. So I shared censorship circumvention instructions, helped users … [View More]resolve any issues they are facing with Tor Browser, and collected their feedback on what worked for them and what didn’t. I also took part in Tor Forum moderation and worked on reviewing Google Play Store users' reviews. For the first in the last six months, we observed a decrease in support tickets from Russian-speaking users. Despite this decrease, the number of tickets is still higher than in July-2024, when new censorship activities by Roskomnadzor were detected[1]. I created a new ticket to track censorship in Russia in 2025[2]. ## Elections in Belarus In January there were Presidential Elections in Belarus [3]. On the eve of the elections many VPN services and websites were blocked in the country [4]. It seems Tor remained accessiblewith bridges[5],however some users reported difficulties in finding working bridges. *##**Google Play Reviews for Tor Browser**(TBA)**and Tor Browser Alpha**for Android* - Tor Browser for Android (TBA) had a Google Play rating of 4.389 (↑) stars in January 2025, which is higher than in December. - Tor Browser for Android (TBA) got 774 (↑17) reviews out of 60,429 for the lifetime. - Tor Browser for Android Alpha (TBA-Alpha) app had a rating of 4.219 (↓) which is lower than in December. - In January, Tor Browser for Android (TBA-Alpha) got 37 (0) reviews out of 8,448 for the lifetime. ## Most common issues on the Google Play store reviews - “Tor Browser doesn’t work”: - often from Russian users, who are struggling to find a way to connect to Tor; - “Tor speed is too slow”: I use a template asking to refresh the Tor circuit or contact Tor Browser support. In the reviews I also encountered an issue of Tor Browserfor Androidfreezes when used on Realme GT NEO 3 smartphone[6]. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Belarusian_presidential_election [4] https://news.zerkalo.io/life/89461.html?tg=4 [5] https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2024-10… <https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2024-10…> [6] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43444 [View Less]

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cve's monthly status report
by Clara Engler 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hello tor-project@, the following contains a summary of the work that I have done in January 2025. ## onionmasq * Integration test for the isolation cookie feature * Requires the use of connected UDP for the existing tests * Wrote unit test for the `config` module * Wrote unit test for the `scaffolding` module * Added IPv6 integration tests alongside all existing IPv4 integration tests * This achieves a full dual-stack testing environment * Added a feature to disable file system … [View More]

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, January 2025
by rhatto 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for January 2025 with the main relevant activities I have done, was involved or are related to my work during the period. ## Onionbalance docs Onionbalance documentation was refactored and updated: https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/base/onionbalance/ Highlights: * New Security page, thanks to Pascal Tippe: https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/base/onionbalance/security/ * Added an API page: https://onionservices.torproject.org/… [View More]

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Felicia's Montly Status Report, January 2025
by Priscila 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Hi everyone, This is my status report for January 2025. I still have some tasks waiting for review, so the following list is about the new ones that I got to work this month: [1] Improve torconnect layouts for medium and expanded screen sizes: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42429 [2] Decide what to do with the "Choose a bridge for me" button in Connection settings: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42477 [3] Warn … [View More]

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, January 2025
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 01 Feb '25

01 Feb '25

Hi everyone! Here is my status report for January 2025. At the beginning of this month, I continued fixing the letterboxing tests needed for the uplift process. There were several platform-specific failures, so I had to set up a Windows build and test environment for Firefox. It was the first time (we usually cross-compile Tor Browser), and it took me some time. Eventually, I got the Bug [0] to add some letterboxing exemptions landed. Then, I opened a stack of patches (authored by ma1) on … [View More]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2025-01-30
by Shelikhoo 30 Jan '25

30 Jan '25

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2025/tor-meeting.2025-01-30-16.00.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday,Feb 02 16:00 UTC Facilitator: meskio ^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail) Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week's … [View More]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 projects, we are working on: * All needs review tickets: * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?s… * Project 158 <-- meskio working on it * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_na… == Announcements == * snowflake-broker.azureedge.net is still working, a week after the announced shutdown date.(It still work at Jan 30) curl -s -i https://snowflake-broker.azureedge.net/amp/client/ == Discussion == == Actions == == Interesting links == * "Identifying VPN Servers through Graph-Represented Behaviors" * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645552 * https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3589334.3645552 * https://github.com/chenxuStep/VPNChecker == 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): 2025-01-30 Last week: - debugged problem with tor conjure PT getting invalid addresses - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conj… - reviewed conjure merge requests - made more improvements to phantombox, the conjure test environment This week: - support conjure work - take a look at potential snowflake orbot bug - https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot-android/issues/1183 - maybe do some lox work dcf: 2025-01-23 Last week: - tracked status of snowflake-broker.azureedge.net after announced date of Edgio shutdown https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - helped debug reported "AMP cache rendezvous doesn't work in China" https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - 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 Help with: meskio: 2024-01-30 Last week: - investigate issues on TorBrowser in Iran (tor-browser#43454) - config repositories in irc tor bot - grant writting and review Next week: - containarize rdsys Shelikhoo: 2024-01-30 Last Week: - [Refine] Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… ) improvements - Merge request reviews Next Week/TODO: - Merge request reviews - [Test] Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… ) improvements onyinyang: 2025-01-30 Last week(s): - Got conjure up and running locally! (Thanks cohosh!) - uTLS implemented for conjure - moved uTLS library to ptutil - started work on ampcache Next week: - continue on alternative registration methods (ampcache, sqs) - Add decoy registration option As time allows: - Continue work on implementing issuer efficiency for check-blockage and trust-promotion protocols - Work on outstanding milestone issues: - key rotation automation Later: pending decision on abandoning lox wasm in favour of some kind of FFI? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43096): - add pref to handle timing for pubkey checks in Tor browser - add trusted invitation logic to tor browser integration: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42974 - improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is working/valuable - sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum (long term things were discussed at the meeting!): - 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: 2025-01-30 Last weeks: - Testing Tor Build with covert-dtls (troubleshooting becoming DTLS client with ICE and different NAT/host types). Next weeks: - Update covert-dtls to handle new DTLS extensions in recent browsers - Write instructions on how to configure covert-dtls with snowflake client - Fix merge conflicts in MR (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow…). - Condensing thesis into paper (on hold) Help with: - Test stability of covert-dtls in snowflake Facilitator Queue: meskio onyinyang shelikhoo 1. First available staff in the Facilitator Queue will be the facilitator for the meeting 2. After facilitating the meeting, the facilitator will be moved to the tail of the queue [View Less]

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2025-01-23
by onyinyang 23 Jan '25

23 Jan '25

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2025/tor-meeting.2025-01-23-16.04.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday,January 30 16:00 UTC Facilitator: shelikhoo ^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail) Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week'… [View More]

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