Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-09-01-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 8 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 ==
* There will not be a meeting Sept 15th * Conjure PT ready to try out: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/0002...
== Discussion ==
* Snowflake in Turkmenistan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu... * we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure and domain front * the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479
* TorCloak Integration with BridgeDB * We are currently developing a new Tor Pluggable Transport called TorCloak. TorCloak's basic mechanism is to conceale Tor traffic on the video streams of WebRTC-based video conferencing services. * We are now coming to a stage on our project in which we are discussing solutions to disseminate our bridges. * Sent a draft of the solution via the mailing list. * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/0002... * Get everyone's opinion and feedback on the solution
(New) * Next Step for WebTunnel * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtu... == Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8 * https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938 * PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938 * 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 2022-08-25 Last week: - Worked on reproducible builds of Conjure (conjure#14) - helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM This week: - Snowflake web extension v3 manifest - polish the badge-helper extension more - email tor-dev and anti-censorship team about the current plan - a few quality of life conjure issues - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conju... - draft an announcement of conjure for forum and development community mailing lists (are you in contact with comms@ about this? --gaba)
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-09-01 Last week: - worked at understanding the nature of the changes in obfs4proxy-0.0.12 - identified the cause of the probabilistic (fails 3/4 of the time) failures in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40804 - found a way to remotely detect old versions https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 - replied to question about TorCloak integration with Tor bridge distribution https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-September/0... Next week: - 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: 2022-09-01 Last week: - continue with rdsys-gettor deployment (distributor configured and working, fixes on TPA side, ...) - deploy BridgeDB css/svg fixes - review webtunnel implementation (webtunnel!1) - review webextension merge requests (webextension!39) - review new snowflake.torproject.org page - scann obfs4 bridges for pre-0.0.12 versions Next week: - deploy rdsys-gettor - fix language issues in BridgeDB (bridgedb#40056)
Shelikhoo: 2022-09-01 Last Week: - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Merged] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l... - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt... - [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue) - [Coding] WebTunnel PT - [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F561...) - [Deployment] Raw Probe Log Data Collection
Next Week: - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni - [Research+Coding] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l... - [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue) - [Research] Log Collector Speed Measurement
Itchy Onion: 2022-09-01 Last week: - RACE 2.2.x - RACE T&E meeting - Review !98 (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...) This week: - Researched and discussed the implication of disabling mdns with the team - Verify !98 - Will spend some time on RACE 2.2.x either today or tomorrow Next week: