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?sc... https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
* 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_nam...
== 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=202... https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2023-02-08&until=2024-02-09&probe_cc=AZ
* 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/00...
* https://github.com/AfonsoVilalonga/TorKameleon
* Previously discussed at 2023-10-19 meeting https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-anti-censorship-team-meeting-note...
* FOCI registration is open (attendance is free): https://foci.community/register
* February 19th
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "" on
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* 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_reques...
* - opened issue for snowflake update in Tor Browser build
* - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41...
* 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/snowf...
* - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
* - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
* - 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