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Community Team meeting notes - March 28 2022
by gus 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hi, Here's the Community Team meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-28-13.59.html And our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad Next meeting: Monday, April 4, 2022 - 1400 UTC Weekly meetings, every Monday at 14:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) ## Goal of this meeting Weekly checkin about the status of Community Team work at Tor. ## Links to Useful documents * Previous meetings: https://forum.torproject.net/tag/community-team * Monthly l10n hangout: * https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ * Known issues with Tor Browser : * https://tb-manual.torproject.org/known-issues/ and Tor Browser for Android: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/#known-issues ## Discussion * Team 1:1s and Q2 roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/team/-/wikis/home * Tor Browser 11.5 documentation and front desk update (Q2): - Meet with UX team and join TB release meetings (April-June 2022) - Open tickets on Gitlab to track the changes: web/support, web/manual, community/support - review articles on frontdesk and cdr.link - QA party - Create Merge Requests to update the docs * Russia bridges usage spike: https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-country.html?start=2021-12-… ## Updates Joydeep: Last week: - support work on RT, Forum, cdr.link - small documentation fix review - helping with s125 report This week: - wrap-up https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40060 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/issues/278 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40063 - Tor relay operators meetup @ Apr 2 - Weekly check-in with the UX Team Help with: - discuss implementation of support#40060 with Gus and other forum moderators Gus: Last week: - A lot of Community/Network Health work - Tor Browser training in Brazil and Mexico - Added the telegram bot (@getbridgesbot) here: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-china/ - Community team ticket triage with Gaba - Sponsor9 meeting about the term of reference with Nah, Isa and Gaba. This week: - 1:1s with part of the team - Send the invitation for the next S30 trainings (Tor Browser and Tails) in BR and MX - Work on Tor on Mobile training material (S30) - S96 meeting - S9 meeting - Announcing the relay operator meetup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/42 rhatto: Last week: - S123 - Onionprobe enhancements - S123 - Support - Research on Onion Services UX This week: - S123 - Onionprobe enhancements: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe - Start to organize the new Onion Services Gitlab Group: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services - Continue Research on Onion Services UX raya: Last week: - s123: handed over landing page high-fidelity design to nico and briefed kez on its development, also figured out language priorities - continued working on template training material - started march 2022 narrative report for s123 This week: - s123 work - training material Nina: Last week: - User support on email and cdr.link. - Added an article on software signature - Helped with s125 report This week: - User support. emmapeel: Last week: - Review new translations, improved howtos, along with translators to Ukrainian, Russian. - Consulted for sponsor123 landing page, translation plan - push for more RTL support fixes, and other l10n problems This week: - moving to weblate - russian translations sponsor125 -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Community Team meeting notes - March 21 2022
by gus 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Hi, Here are the meeting notes from the Community Team meeting. http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-21-13.59.html And our meeting pad: ## Discussion - translation accord: transliterate Tor Browser in Bangla: https://forum.torproject.net/t/proposal-bengali-bangla-transliterate-tor-br… ## Updates Gus: Last week: - S30 Orbot training in Brazil with Nah and Rhatto: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/35 - Reviewed landing page for sponsor123 - Add the telegram bridges bot in the documentation: https://support.torproject.org/censorship/connecting-from-china/ - Pinged sursiendo and karisma about adding them in the Partners page: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/merge_requests/149 - Worked on breaking some tasks into smaller tasks, example: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/42 - Some network health work with GeKo This week: - S30 Tor Browser Training in Brazil and Mexico (overview https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/25) - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/36 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/37 - TBD Mexico training sessions - S9 - Sending the Latam meetup invitations to Colombia and Guatemala - S9 term of reference meeting - Meeting about 1:1s - S30 meeting - Meeting some relays operators with GeKo Help with: - Something you need help with. Joydeep: Last week: - support work on RT, Forum, cdr.link - authored the RT template on the latest Android bug: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212 - some small documentation (support portal) fixes This week: - Help with S125 reporting - Finish all tasks related to https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40060 - Weekly check-in with the UX Team Help with: rhatto: Last week: - S123 - Work on Onionprobe, a Onion Services monitoring tool: https://gitlab.torproject.org/rhatto/onionprobe - S123 - Support - S30 - Help at 2022-03-15 Orbot training: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/25 This week: - S123 - Onionprobe enhancements - S123 - Support - Research on Onion Services UX Raya: Last week: - Sponsor 123 meetings: localisation priorities, syncing with other partners. - Worked on progress tracker: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwRzqududVisrXWHf_hpMXXP83I0k6foJY_… - Finalising landing page content and design: - Content: https://pad.riseup.net/p/sponsor123-landing-page-content-keep - LTR desktop landing page: https://www.figma.com/proto/ylutPeOncMsIvB52htTj0d/Low-Fi-2?node-id=24%3A12… - RTL desktop: https://www.figma.com/proto/cRtpNPRrFONCiC5fsrFX4n/Low-Fi-2-RTL?node-id=24%… - LTR mobile (in progress): https://www.figma.com/proto/LMh2rnNFotSTxFs0hirvYh/Low-Fi-2-Mobile?node-id=… This week: - Start with narrative report - Gauge training priorities for partners Help with: - All good :-) Nina: Last week: - User support on RT and Cdr.link (mostly cdr.link now). - Adding templates (not finished) This week: - Continue with user support - Review articles in Russian. emmapeel: Last week: - Updated community portal translations / new slides helping survivors - Review and publish Tor Browser Manual translations for zh-TW, ko, khmer - Support new Ukrainian translators - Reviewed landing page for sponsor123 This week: - Review and publish tpo website translations for zh-TW, ko, khmer Help with: - Lots of translations need review, please ask around if you know somebody that can review. -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Tor Browser meeting moved to 2022-03-29
by Richard Pospesel 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Hey Everyone, The regularly scheduled Tor Browser meeting next Monday (2022-03-28) will be moved to next Tuesday (2022-03-29) at 1500 UTC at the usual place (#tor-meeting on OFTC). Meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-tbb-keep best, -Richard

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-03-24
by meskio 24 Mar '22

24 Mar '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-24-15.59.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday March 31th 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 checkin 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?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 == * We have a new developer in the Anti Censorship team: Itchy Onion * Circumvention Settings API is deployed == Discussion == * dnstt bridges * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac… * Prepare all pieces of the snowflake pipeline for a second snowflake bridge(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transpor… * Ratify design * Assign Broker Coding Task To Shell * {Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support} is ready to be reviewed again, now with handwritten SOCKS5-DNS * handwritten DNS to get around go stdlib mindset * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * archive state-of-censorship repo https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/state-of-censorship * supperseeded by moats censorship map * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys-admin/-/blob/main/c… == Actions == == Interesting links == * https://github.com/MatheusAvellar/snowflake-win * Tor's Snowflake, but for Windows. IT DOESN'T WORK! * No idea how they're interfacing C# code with WebRTC == Reading group == * We will discuss "Balboa: Bobbing and Weaving around Network Censorship" on April 7 * https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-rosen.pdf * https://censorbib.nymity.ch/#Rosen2021a * 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/-/mer… cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-03-24 Last week: - onboarded itchy onion onto s28 tasks - reviewed _5eba's snowflake-webext patches - reviewed pt event log scrubbing patch (snowflake!83) This week: - continued work on conjure PT - continue to monitor snowflake broker stats Needs help with: dcf: 2022-03-24 Last week: - discovered a problem with onion keys in the deployment of the interim snowflake bridge, and fixed it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - spent some time looking at OONI snowflake bootstrap results, since the interim bridge https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2022-02-18&until=2022-0… - tried correlating with stunreachability measurements, but couldn't get that to work https://explorer.ooni.org/search?since=2022-03-16&until=2022-03-21&probe_cc… - commented on merge request to scrub pt.Log messages in snowflake-client https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - revised OTF rapid response grant application for a long-term snowflake bridge Next week: - make a post summarizing performance changes since switching to the interim bridge last week Help with: agix: 2021-02-10 Last week: - Continued work on gettor-twitter Next week: - Hopefully finish the task Help with: - arlolra: 2022-03-10 Last week: - Pass bridge fingerprint in SOCKS param to the broker https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - Revise !81 - Start on the next piece of the multiple bridge design 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/snow… Help with: - maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… 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: 2022-03-24 Last week: - deploy circumvention settings (bridgedb#40025) - add daily bridge rotation for circumvention settings anti listing (rdsys#79) - integrate telegram bot into rdsys (rdsys#77) - review OnionSproutsBot (telegram gettor) code and move forward the deployment of it - update obfs4-bridge docker image to use the latest obfs4proxy from debian backports (docker-obfs4-proxy!9) - archive state-of-censorship repo Next week: - telegram bot support for dynamic bridges (rdsys#77) Shelikhoo: 2022-03-24 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Merge Request Done] uTLS for broker negotiation - [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] Prepare all pieces of the snowflake pipeline for a second snowflake bridge(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transpor… - [Demo] Introducation to V2Ray + Tor in Demo Day Next Week: - [Coding] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - built-in DNS - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker 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 hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - ln5: 2022-03-24 Last week: - Received hardware for a new home for snowflake.tpn; discussed OS configuration with dcf in private email Next week: - Install Debian 11 on new snowflake.tpn - Possibly rack new snowflake.tpn, if I can get access and find time to do the transportation Need help with: - Input on urgency appreciated, for my planning - Input on preferred CPU configuration, esp wrt HyperThreading -- lacking input before deployment in data centre, the machine will *not* have HT disabled and CPU bug mitigation will thus have to be carried out by the kernel -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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DEMO day is happening on March 23rd at 1600 UTC
by Gaba 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hi! The DEMO day for this month will happen on March 23rd at 1600 UTC. I will send the link for the BBB room a few hours before the event. What is a Demo Day? ------------------- An hour long session at Tir Project's all hands meeting where different people present 5 minutes ideas, tools, hacking or anything that they think it may be interesting for the Tor community. Presenters will have 5 to 8 minutes and people can ask questions via text in the pad for 3 minutes. For this month we will have: - Guardian Project: with Orbot for iOS https://orbot.app - Anarcat: Undertime - Dealing with the nightmare of timezone and time changes on the commandline in Python. - Shelikhoo: V2Ray - V2Ray is one of the external proxies one can use to connect to Tor network. It can help user bypass some of the most restrictive censorship here on this planet. Combined with Tor it help user to browse Internet freely, speedy and anonymously. Here is short demo of V2Ray and how to use it to connect to Tor. - Hiro: Metrics Dashboard. - Rhatto: Onionprobe - Jim: Using Shadow @ Tor - To test and tune tor's new congestion control algorithm, we've been using the [shadow] simulator to evaluate the performance of proposed changes. I'll begin by showing how to set up and run a tiny simulation with a web server and a client, and then show how we incrementally build up from there to push-button realistic Tor simulations run in Gitlab CI. [shadow]: https://shadow.github.io/ - PieroV: New censorship circumvention in about:connect in the Tor Browser. - Richard: update about Blueprint work on Gosling and show off some very hello world functionality. -- pronouns she/her/they GPG Fingerprint EE3F DF5C AD91 643C 21BE 8370 180D B06C 59CA BD19

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Network Team - Upcoming tor.git 0.4.7.5-alpha release - March 2022
by David Goulet 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Greetings, Network team will be releasing on Friday (March 25th, 2022) a new alpha (0.4.7.5-alpha) and likely the last one of the 0.4.7.x series. We've reached a point where we are very happy with the state of congestion control with regards to code stability and protocol parameters. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/324-rt… If all goes well, we expect to go onto the release candidate in few weeks and then finally onto a stable around end of April (famous last words)! Upcoming versions: - 0.4.7.5-alpha @network-team: It is _now_ a good time to start reviewing changes/ files: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/tree/main/changes Last, we've asked the dirauth to recommend these versions few minutes ago. Cheers! David -- bO2GGRweZied5CndmqgrdYdQYdSDW6hcScOCr/c8Xig=

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UX team monthly meeting notes - March 22nd
by nah＠riseup.net 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Hello everyone, Thanks to everyone who made it to today's UX Team meeting! We’re looking forward to seeing you all again next week. Here are the minutes: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-22-16.59.log… Also, find below the minutes for all meetings in the previous weeks. == User Experience Team Meeting == UX Team meetings happen every Tuesday at 1700 UTC in #tor-meeting on OFTC. Here are the logs from our meeting on March 1st: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-01-16.59.log… Here are the logs from our meeting on March 8th: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-08-16.59.log… Here are the logs from our last meeting on March 15th: https://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-15-16.59.lo… == Useful links == About the UX Team: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/team UX repository: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux UX roadmap: https://www.figma.com/file/n4ETd0cUkcfj3KyclJQnt3/UX-Team-Planning?node-id=… UX kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… Team kanban: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/boards?scope=all&label_name[]=UX… --------------------------- Tuesday March 22nd 17:00 UTC --------------------------- == What projects are we working on? == S9 - Usability and Community Intervention on Support for Democracy and Human Rights https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… S30 - Empowering Communities in the Global South to Bypass Censorship https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&… S96 – Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 S101 - Tor VPN Client for Android https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/32 S123 - Tor Secure Access Package for USAGM https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/34 == Announcements == Tor Browser 11.0.9 for desktop: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1109/ == Agenda == Evergreen items: 1. Announcements 📣 2. Weekly planning 📅 3. Check-in with user support 💬 Discussion items for this week only: 4. <add your item here!> == Weekly planning == Note: Please highlight anything you'd like to discuss below in **bold** Duncan/donuts Last week (actual): - AFK on Monday - Supported dev work on about:rulesets (HTTPS-E deprecation) in tor-browser#40458 - Continued testing the most recent about:preferences#connection build in tor-browser#40774 - Started iterating on the design of about:preferences#connection in tor-browser#40782 This week (planned): - Finish next iteration of about:preferences#connection in tor-browser#40782 - Start and finish design QA of current torconenct build in tor-browser#40773 - Send a reminder about the tor-qa survey; potentially close it soon Near future (backlog): - Start work on additional designs for S96 (torconnect) - Would like to take a look at the telegram bot's UX for S125, time-permitting - S101 continuation Nah Last week (actual): - started s30 trainings and collected feedback - coordinating activities with s30 partners - scheduled s9 interviews: for this week and next week - recruiting users for s101 interviews - created a survey for s30 feedback collection This week (planned): - s30 trainings and feedback on tuesday, thursday and saturday - start scheduling usability testing/interview for s30 - card sorting (features survey) planning for s101 - interviews planning for 101 - s9 interview on thursday - schedule more s9 interviews - meet with user research volunteer on thursday - reading list: Measuring accessibility of popular websites while using Tor https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3Ae9ead224-e7eb-46df-b9… Nicob Last week (actual): - Developed and finished assets for mystery swag bag campaign https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/operations/communications/-/issues/48#not… - Developed ruleset concepts and sketches (this part of the project has since been paused so work won’t continue at this time) - Worked on bridge illustrations, waiting for review https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb/-/issues/34322#n… - Sent out nah's limesurvey for sticker poll - Worked on creative applications for comms 22 art direction - Started moodboarding process for Annual Report art direction This week (planned): - Start hi-fi design for USAGM landing page https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-support/-/issues/29#note_2789281 - Continue moodboarding for Annual Report - Continue creative applications for comms 22 art direction Imauri - Can assist in research scoping, planning, execution. Last week: - Would like to assist in tactical research efforts for any of the following projects: - O2.0 - Telegram Bridge Bot - community.torproject.org usability aduit - torproject.org usability audit This week: Meeting with Nah & Duncan this Thrusday (3/24) to assign and prioritize research Joydeep ref. Check-in with User Support - contd. user reports of https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212 - summary of the bug: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40212#note_27… (tl;dr blocked until TBA 11.0.10 release) updates for users: https://forum.torproject.net/t/new-release-tor-browser-11-0-8-android/2527/3 == Open Call for User Research == Find out how to contribute to the UX team: https://community.torproject.org/user-research/how-to-volunteer/ Thanks everyone! -- Nah User Researcher

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-03-17
by meskio 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-17-15.59.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday March 24th 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 checkin 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?s… * Sponsor 30 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/4 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/7 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/5 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/6 * 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&… == Announcements == * We have a new developer in the Anti Censorship team: Itchy Onion == Discussion == * dnstt bridges * the guardian project is working on dnstt for iOS/android * https://github.com/tladesignz/IPtProxy/commit/e2ce9d113c412f9baa436f641a61d… * can we add support for dnstt into rdsys/bridgedb and the rest of tor infra? * anadahz will create an issue to work on it * setup instructions: https://pad.riseup.net/p/WraKJFLJ54lxKLeSeYKF == Actions == == Interesting links == * https://www.dw.com/en/how-to-circumvent-state-internet-censorship-in-russia… == 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. 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/-/mer… cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-03-17 (here but distracted) Last week: - worked on setting up a dev environment for conjure - https://github.com/refraction-networking/conjure/wiki/Environment-Setup - some reviews This week: - continued work on conjure PT - continue to monitor snowflake broker stats Needs help with: dcf: 2022-03-17 (will miss 2022-03-17 meeting) Last week: - restarted snowflake broker and bridge for Dirty Pipe vulnerability https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - moved snowflake bridge to an interim faster server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - wrote OTF rapid response grant for snowflake bridge funding - helped coordinate a more permanent faster server for the snowflake bridge - wrote a summary of last week's discussion about multi-bridge snowflake https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-co… - reviewed merge request for forwarding bridge fingerprint to the broker https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - made a patch for debugging standalone proxy that stops working https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - opened an issue to have pt.Log scrubbed in snowflake-client https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: Help with: agix: 2021-02-10 Last week: - Continued work on gettor-twitter Next week: - Hopefully finish the task Help with: - arlolra: 2022-03-10 Last week: - Pass bridge fingerprint in SOCKS param to the broker https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… Next week: - Revise !81 - Start on the next piece of the multiple bridge design 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/snow… Help with: - maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… 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: 2022-03-17 Last week: - add some untilisting mechanism to circumvention settings (rdsys#79) - be able to configure the proxy type in snowflake library (snowflake#40104) - update obfs4 bridge dockerfile to use backports (docker-obfs4-bridge!9) - review uTLS merge request (snowflake!76) Next week: - deploy circumvention settings (bridgedb#40025) - integrate telegram bot into rdsys (rdsys#77) Shelikhoo: 2022-03-10 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Merge Request Awaiting] uTLS for broker negotiation (Updated) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Deployment] Vantage Point in Vinnica, Ukraine - [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request - [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS Next Week: - [Coding] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - built-in DNS 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 hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: - -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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Tomorrow: Tor Monthly Localization Hangout!
by emma peel 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

ey there! Remember that tomorrow we have the monthly Tor Localization Hangout! Every 3rd Friday of the month the Tor L10n Team meets to translate together, share tricks, have fun while translating, meet fellow translators, and find out about the l10n priorities for the Tor Project. NEXT HANGOUT: Friday March 18th - from 12 UTC onwards Come join us on the Localization Hangout, from Noon UTC, on the #tor-l10n channel in OFTC. (you can also use Element https://element.io/ to connect: #tor-l10n:matrix.org) At 13 UTC we will make a call on Big Blue Button: https://tor.meet.coop/emm-qmu-8o2-d2w Tomorrow we will learn about bugs, reporting, and the bugtracker! What are bugs, how to report them, interesting projects in gitlab for translators. More information: https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/

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minutes from the TPA meeting
by Antoine Beaupré 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Hi! Here are your monthly TPA minutes, enjoy! # Roll call: who's there and emergencies anarcat, kez, lavamind, gaba are present. colchicifolium backups are broken, and we're looking into it, but that's not really an emergency, as it is definitely not new. see [issue 40650][]. [issue 40650]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40650 # TPA-RFC-15: email services We discussed the [TPA-RFC-15][] proposal. [TPA-RFC-15]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/wikis/policy/tpa-rfc-15- The lack of IMAP services is going to be a problem for some personas and should probably be considered part of the propsoal. For approval, we should first send to tor-internal for comments, then a talk at all hands in april, then isa/sue for financial approval. # Dashboard review We went through the 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 We moved a bunch of stuff to the icebox (particularly in the gitlab-lobby and anon_ticket projects), and also made sure to assign every ~Next ticket to someone in the web team. Generally, we only looked at tickets associated with a Milestone in the web dashboard because it's otherwise too crowded. # Upcoming work parties We're going to have those work parties coming up: * ganeti gnt-chi: on Tuesday, finish setting up the gnt-chi cluster, to train people with out of band access and ipsec * bullseye upgrades: in a week or two, to upgrade a significant chunk of the fleet to bullseye, see [ticket 40662][] where we'll make a plan and send announcements [ticket 40662]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40662 # Holidays anarcat is planning some off time during the first weeks of august, do let him know if you plan to take some time off this summer. # future of media.tpo We discussed the future of media.tpo ([tpo/web/team#30][]), since it mentions rsync and could be a place to store things like assets for the blog and other sites. anarcat said we shouldn't use it as a CDN because it's really just an archive, and only a single server. if we need a place like that, we should find some other place. we should probably stop announcing the rsync service instead of fixing it, I doubt anyone is using that. [tpo/web/team#30]: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/team/-/issues/30#note_2785843> # Other discussions We briefly talked about colchicifolium, but that will be reviewed at the next checkin. # Next meeting April 4th. # Metrics of the month * hosts in Puppet: 87, LDAP: 87, Prometheus exporters: 143 * number of Apache servers monitored: 25, hits per second: 301 * number of self-hosted nameservers: 6, mail servers: 8 * pending upgrades: 22, reboots: 1 * average load: 0.92, memory available: 4.11 TiB/5.13 TiB, running processes: 646 * disk free/total: 31.96 TiB/84.70 TiB * bytes sent: 331.59 MB/s, received: 201.29 MB/s * planned bullseye upgrades completion date: 2024-12-01 * [GitLab tickets][]: 177 tickets including... * open: 0 * icebox: 151 * backlog: 9 * next: 9 * doing: 5 * needs information: 3 * (closed: 2643) [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. -- Antoine Beaupré torproject.org system administration

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