Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-09-22-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 29 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-01 bridge running into resource limitations * need to increase number of tor instances at least * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * also running into other resource limitations: CPU cannot be increased much more, and snowflake-server is periodically restarting due to a lack of memory * the snowflake-01 bridge is one of the largest relays in the network. compare to https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#toprelays. snowflake-01 had 72 MB/s average throughout August 2022, so it is right up there with the top relays. * tried in the past to decrease resource requirements of snowflake-server, without much results https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * will at least recompile snowflake-server with a recent golang compiler when redeploying this time * what about making snowflake the default recommendation in Iran? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/119 * possible, but there are still concerns about load at the bridge * how close are we to being able to start using the snowflake-02 bridge? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * will be necessary soon, because snowflake-01 cannot scale forever * the limiting factor at this point is the number of proxies that multi-bridge aware * only about 30% of available proxies are multi-bridge aware * is 30% sufficient for current client demand? * most proxies are browser add-ons, which should automatically update * shelikhoo will investigate why such a large fraction of proxies have not updated * does connection assist help with getting clients to use a second bridge, or does it require a new Tor Browser release? * connection assist likely does not help, since old clients will not know how to send the bridge fingerprint they want to the broker -- if they use the -02 fingerprint but do not tell the broker that, the broker will connect them with the -01 bridge, and the connection will fail * Gettor Telegram Bot down. Fix deployed * increase in user result in hit Telegram API Limit * Fix deployed to restore it to working state * Community Team developed a guide for IR circumvention * https://forum.torproject.net/t/iran-circumventing-censorship-with-tor/4590 * currently awaiting translation
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "" on * * 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 2022-09-08 Last week: - took a look at Snowflake mDNS issue (snowflake#40123) - worked on Snowflake manifest v3 webextension fixes (snowflake-webext#29) This week: - Snowflake web extension v3 manifest - usability improvements to chrome badge helper - finish updating Firefox extension to mv3 - a few quality of life conjure issues - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conju... Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-09-22 Last week: - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-cos... - submitted merge request to change the format of placeholder pluggable transport addresses to work with FascistFirewall, ReachableAddresses https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40... - investigated recent increased usage of snowflake and opened issue to increase the number of tor instances https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Next week: - increase number of tor instances on snowflake-01 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 - 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 Help with:
meskio: 2022-09-08 Last week: - plan obfs4proxy 0.0.14 update (obfs4#40008) - package obfs4proxy 0.0.14 for debian - test obfs4proxy backward compatibility - rdsys-gettor is deployed, planning for the final switch - deploy more BridgeDB fixes - submit a project proposal for Outreachy Next week: - deploy rdsys-gettor - fix language issues in BridgeDB (bridgedb#40056)
Shelikhoo: 2022-09-22 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... - In Person Meetup! - [Research] Log Collector Performance Collection (Bootstrap time) - Write Survival Guide For Log Collector https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guid... - [Deployment] Emergency fix for OnionSproutsBot https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/gettor-project/onionsprout... Next Week: - [Research] WebTunnel Planning (Continue) - Generate Charts for presention: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/92#note_2836...
Itchy Onion: 2022-09-22 Last week: - several attempts (adjusting various timeout, trying the obfs approach of creating a smux session, and reserching other options) to fix the RACE unclosed TCP connection issue (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...).
This week: - update snowflake plugin API to RACE 2.3.x (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/58) - I learned yesterday that there is a working build of snowflake 2.2.x from Eliana. I have requested the code and am still waiting for it. Will ask again in my 1-1 meeting with Eliana later today