Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-12-15.58.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 May 19th 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 ==
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== Discussion ==
* Snowflake doesn't work in Russia (connection failure by timeout) * there are some anomalies in OONI for RU, but they are not higher than some coutries like CA * most of snowflake users are comming from Russia, it works at least for some * stunreachability measurements show 3 (of 12) STUN servers inaccessible in Russia, 2 blocked by Russian ISPs, 1 possibly geoblocking of users in Russia * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=stunreachabili... * flakey bridge-stats still show plenty of connections from Russia today * whoever added this discussion item is not here to supply more details * Moat gives blocklisted(ru) bridges in Russia (e.g. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1807BF9A521468998385F179DDBF9...) * meskio will investigate it
== 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 2022-05-12 Last week: - work on conjure PT - review of Distributed snowflake server support (snowflake!87) This week: - continue work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-05-12 Last week: - started to look at OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia 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... - write up observations on OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia 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: 2022-05-12 Last week: - add location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108) - use a worker to write telegram metrics (rdsys!39) - deploy a test setup for dynamic bridges updates API (rdsys#98) - prepare demhack.ru hackathon challenge (team#61) - configure our mergerequest assignments bot so cohosh only gets snowflake ones (TriageOps!8) Next week: - rethink distributor retries to the rdsys backend (rdsys#99) - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
Shelikhoo: 2022-05-12 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) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound (continue) Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
Itchy Onion: 2022-05-12 Last week: - prepared for Georgetown meeting (read code/docs about snowflake) This week: - audit PI meeting - working on the snowflake issues assigned to me - review MRs assigned to me
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