Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-28-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday May 5th 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 ==
* polyanthum & gettor-01 will be upgraded next week, the servers where bridgedb,rdsys,gettor and other anti-censorship infra is hosted
== Discussion ==
* Distributed Snowflake Server Support * Any feedbacks? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * No blocker issue discovered. * will first deploy the new broker, and give time for proxies to update * removed smallerRichard builtin server * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/44 * RKS hackathon * (Discussion Skipped)
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
* https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kazakhstan-shut-down-its-intern... * https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/114
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on Apr/28th/2022 * https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836 * https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/108 * 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: 2022-04-28 Last week: - made graphs of the snowflake bridge since the server move 2 weeks ago https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... 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: 2022-04-28 Last week: - use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to distribute (rdsys#96) - give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107) - removed smallerRichard builtin bridge (team#44) - brainstorm on dnstt (trac#40001) Next week: - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#101) - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment
Shelikhoo: 2022-04-28 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [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] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription") - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment - Dockerlized - [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...) - [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24
Itchy Onion: 2022-04-28 Last week: - debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue - had a meeting with Georgetown folks (a recurring meeting to go over each other's channel code) This week: - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with rebase snowflake rebasing) - go over RACECAR docs
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