Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-10-28-16.00.html
and the meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday October 28th 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.
== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
snowflake v2 library
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
last chance to make changes to the API before increasing the major version number
look at particularly the proxy, client, and server libraries and comment on the ticket if there are changes you'd like to see
scheduling reboot/migration of snowflake VPS
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2021-October/000...
dcf plans to do it early 2021-10-31 UTC https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
change in proxy NAT types?
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2021-October/000...
may be a problem with probetest
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... was a past instance of probetest using a lot of CPU
probetest is using 100% CPU at the moment too
ticket to diagnose the problem with probetest: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
ticket to install an alert for NAT assignment: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
https://github.com/Pluggable-Transports/Pluggable-Transports-spec/blob/70bc1...
proposal for a logging interface in the PT API, somewhat relevant to the discussion about STATUS from https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2021-October/003194.html
https://github.com/Pluggable-Transports/Pluggable-Transports-spec/blob/70bc1...
proposed EVENT message, this is actually an earlier version of what became STATUS in Tor's pt-spec
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2018-October/013512.html
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/28181#note_2487268
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/pt-spec.txt?id=1ecf3f66586816...
== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Measuring QQMail's automated email censorship in China" on 2021-11-21
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474560
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 2021-10-28 Last week: - debugged bridgestrap issues - closed bridgestrap#7 because it could no longer be reproduced - code reviews - grant planning - finished changes to snowflake proxy library (snowflake!60) - read performance paper for reading group - more work on snowflake performance measurments This week: - automate blocking detection for rotating IP bridges (censorship-analysis#40020) - finish up snowflake library changes for v2 (snowflake#40063) - more snowflake performance work (snowflake#40026) Needs help with: - any thoughts on snowflake v2 library
arlolra: 2021-08-12
Last week:
- Migrate to v3 of the webextension manifest
Next week:
- Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10
- Write up the pitch for our use case for supporting creating PeerConnections in background service workers https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/77
Help with:
-
dcf: 2021-10-28
Last week:
Next week:
- reboot snowflake VPSes https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
Help with:
agix:2021-07-15
Last week:
-Off due to final exams
Next week:
-Work on bridgebox for rdsys
-More research on httpt #4
Help with:
-
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:
-
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: 2021-10-28
Last week:
- merge rdsys honour operators distribution choice (rdsys!39)
- fixes on snowflake proxy docker image (docker-snowflake-proxy!2)
- digg into bridgedb bridge storage to replace it by rdsys (bridgedb#40031)
- review snowflakes lib fixes (snowflake!60)
Next week:
- make bridgedb a rdsys distributor (bridgedb#40031)
- improve bridgestrap manage of the cache (bridgestrap#27)