Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-05-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday May 12th 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 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?sc... * 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%... * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
== Announcements ==
* the bridges telegram bot is now in rdsys
== Discussion ==
* Distributed Snowflake Server Support * there is a merge request now: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * review is wellcome, there are mayor changes * RKS hackathon * RKS is organizing a hackathon: demhack.ru and asked TPO to be part of it * we are proposing whatsapp gettor+bridgesbot * they think it might be to small, we can extend it * another idea is to do it in iMessage * we'll discuss it in a ticket * due to monday
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
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== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship, ACM WWW 2021" on May 19th, 2022 * https://shhaos.github.io/papers/www21-DoE.pdf * 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/-/merg...
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14 Last week: - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124) - merge request: snowflake!85 - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127) - merge request: snowflake!86 - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125) - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474) - work on conjure test environment setup This week: - continue work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-05-01 (will be absent 2022-05-05) Last week: - opened an issue for confusing client NAT check log messages https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - filed an OONI issue to get access to stunreachability measurements, in order to get more insignt into torsf (snowflake) failures https://github.com/ooni/backend/issues/590 Next week: - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63 - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Help with:
arlolra: 2022-04-07 Last week: - Merged the rest of snowflake !81 Next week: - Get to snowflake-webext #10 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/snowf... Help with: -
maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... 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: 2022-05-05 Last week: - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#111) - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment (team#78) - add onionsproutsbot to transifex (l10n#40070) - add the location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108) - API for dynamic bridges in telegram (rdsys#98) - review bridedb.tpo/info fixes (bridgedb!39) Next week: - bridges sharing the same IP should use the same distributor (rdsys#106) - finish and deploy the changes into circumvention settings API (rdsys#108)
Shelikhoo: 2022-05-05 Last Week:
- [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) <<<
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Merge Request Review] Telegram distributor hands both new and old bridges to old accounts(snowflake!37) - [Merge Request Review] Don't mix up old and new telegram accounts(snowflake!38) - [Merge Request Review] Remove smallerRichard default bridge - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Include frontdisk testing targets in probe tests (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#4) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
Itchy Onion: 2022-05-05 Last week: - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with snowflake rebasing) This week: - prepare Georgetown meeting (read more docs and code) - starting to look at new RACE version (2.1.1)
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