Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-11-24-15.58.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday Dec 01 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 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... * 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 ==
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== Discussion ==
(OLD) * security policy * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/SecurityPoli... * we are working on a project wide security policy on how to handle security issues * the starting point is the NetworkTeam security policy, and from ACT we'll try to propose changes to addapt it to our needs. * domain fronting deprecation in azure * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/33#note_2853... * azure is going to block all domain front traffic after Nov 8 2023 * we only use it for meek * we'll discuss 6 months before the block if we can deprecate meek or need to find an alternative (NEW) [We exchanged the current progress and difficulty. The meeting summarily closed.] == Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573477 * "It's been many years, and I am still angry and disappointed by Cloudflare's decision to block domain fronting and drop Lantern as a customer..." * https://github.com/aleixrodriala/wa-tunnel * HTTP Tunneling through WhatsApp
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study" on Dec 1 * https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-123/ * https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/dnspriv21-02-paper.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.
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-11-24 Last week: - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122) This week: - continue work on conjure client - more work on reputation-based bridge dist - fixup snowflake!108 Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-11-23 Last week: - reviewed merge request to make `go fmt` errors in CI more obvious https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Next week: - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823... - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429 - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Help with: - review of remaining snowflake-server performance improvements - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
meskio: 2022-11-17 Last week: - send a reminderder? to all bridge operators to upgrade obfs4 - fail to deploy a new version of OnionSproutsBot and roll back - investigate gettor freeze (rdsys#129) - update snowflake (2.3.1) package in debian (snowflake#40233) - add circumvention settings for AE (team#106) - many merge requests reviews in rdsys and snowflake - work with TAILS to find a qr code setup that works for them in BridgeDB Next week: - check if we are distributing blocked bridges in moat (rdsys#80) - investigate gettor freeze (rdsys#129)
Shelikhoo: 2022-11-24 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt... - [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship- analysis/-/issues/40036 - [Merge Request] Add Version Output Support to Snowflake (This also shows utls client hello names) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... (Continue) - [Coding] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser - Reviewed a lot of merge requests Next Week: - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - [Research] Fix vantage point summary upload in China - [Coding] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser(Continue) - [Coding] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1" https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Finish all the reviews (cont)
Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24 Last week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results)
This week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts) - review some MRs