Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-14-15.59.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday April 21th 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 checkin 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 ==
* Roger is working on a Defcon talk submission, around the Russia censorship thing. Soon it will be ready for internal feedback and then we'll submit it. (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/73)
== Discussion ==
* [Distributed Snowflake Server Support](https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...) is ready for testing * A testing Broker will be setup * A secondary Bridge from dcf will be used for testing * Once testing is concluded, get help from other orgs to run other secondary snowflake bridges(like in Asia) * shelikhoo will create a ticket for an automated bridge setup system
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
* https://ntc.party/t/reported-shutdown-in-turkmenistan-2022-04-11/2224 * Seems to be over now https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1513907409579876360 https://radar.cloudflare.com/tm
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on Apr/28th/2022 * 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: - continued work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-04-14 Last week: - monitored the transition of the snowflake bridge to its new server 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 - install second snowflake bridge site https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Help with:
agix: 2021-02-10 Last week: - Continued work on gettor-twitter Next week: - Hopefully finish the task 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: 2022-04-07 Last week: - document circumvention settings API (bridgedb#40043) - accept bridge distributor request changes (rdsys#104) - investigate bridgestrap reporting odd timing (tor#40592) - review cross compile docker snowflake-proxy (docker-snowflake-proxy!6) Next week: AFK
Shelikhoo: 2022-04-14 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") - [Discussion+Coding] Support Automatic Bridge Info update(shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#1) - [Discussion+Coding] Remove Inactive Bridge from Test Result(shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#2) - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment - Dockerlized Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker
Itchy Onion: 2022-04-14 Last week: - pair programming with Cecylia on the general workflow for updating racecar plugin - resolving a compatible issue introduced in racecar 2.1.0
This week: - continue working on racecar 2.1.0 (need to rebase snowflake) - set up LDAP
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
hanneloresx: 2021-3-4 Last week: - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14 Next week: - Finish bridgestrap #14 - Find new issue to work on Help with: -
ln5: 2022-03-24 Last week: - Received hardware for a new home for snowflake.tpn; discussed OS configuration with dcf in private email Next week: - Install Debian 11 on new snowflake.tpn - Possibly rack new snowflake.tpn, if I can get access and find time to do the transportation Need help with: - Input on urgency appreciated, for my planning - Input on preferred CPU configuration, esp wrt HyperThreading -- lacking input before deployment in data centre, the machine will *not* have HT disabled and CPU bug mitigation will thus have to be carried out by the kernel