Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-03-23-15.58.log....
And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday, March 23 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 96
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
- Sponsor 139 <-- hackerncoder, irl, joydeep, meskio, emmapeel working on it
- https://pad.riseup.net/p/sponsor139-meeting-pad
== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
- renovate bot to update dependencies on our projects
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/renovate-cron
- there have been complaints that some dependencies of snowflake are outdated
- https://github.com/tladesignz/IPtProxy/issues/45
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/122
- (x/net and x/crypto dependencies were incidentally updated in a recent pion update: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf..., but not to the currently most recent version)
- currently being used in rdsys, could enable for other projects by request
== Actions ==
- update the x/net and x/crypt libraries in snowflake and obfs4
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/122
== Interesting links ==
- https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/releases/tag/17.0.0-BETA-2-tor.0.4....
- https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/commit/c3f6ee18f17770a5904ad19c3cd2...
- 2023-03-15 Orbot for Android v17 BETA 2 released with snowflake-02 bridge
- snowflake-02 metrics: https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/91DA221A149007D0FD9E5515F5786... (multiply by 12)
== 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 2023-03-23 Last week(s): - Lox tor browser integration work in progress - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/116 - created a fork of wasm-bindgen that generates javascript bindings for the lox client that are compatible with internal browser modules - looked into enabling wasm target for rust in tbb - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40... - Lox distributor work - debugged some async problems with the rdsys-backend-api library - helped set up new meek bridge for users in TM This week: - continue Lox tor browser integration - catch up on snowflake-webext issues and MRs Needs help with:
dcf: 2023-03-23
- Last week:
- - wrote up ideas about partially reliable and/or unordered WebRTC data channels in snowflake https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-March/00028...
- - wrote notes on RFC 8828 which gives guidance on handling private IP address ICE candidates https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - wrote notes on STUN fingerprinting and STUN over DTLS (RFC 7350) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - sketched a plan for providing bridge capacity for Turkmenistan https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu...
- - wrote a merge request to fix a minor PT initialization bug in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - made the necessary changes to make nf_conntrack changes persistent on the snowflake bridges, and restarted them both https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - contributed thoughts about how to share a pool of snowflake proxies with other circumvention projects
- Next week:
- - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823... (for real)
- - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Help with:
meskio: 2023-03-23 Last week:
- - explore how to add webtunnel to rdsys (rdsys#142)
- - add webtunnel support to bridgestrap (bridgestrap!15)
- - experiment with renovate bot in rdsys to update dependencies
- - apply to docker DSOS program (team#121)
- - rebase pt version spec (torspec!63)
Next week:
- - rdsys webtunnel support (rdsys#142)
Shelikhoo: 2023-03-16 Last Week:
- - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt...
- - Upstreaming Remove HelloVerify countermeasure (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
- - Fix return nil error on unrecognized request http upgrade failure (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtu...)
- - consider propagating 2FA everywhere, maybe, at the April Tor Meeting (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41083#note_2884138)
- - Resynchronization with Upsteamed Remove HelloVerify countermeasure (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
- - Comment on OnionShare Rebrand
- - Comment on S96 User Research Risk Assessment
- - Comment on Analysis of speed deficiency of Snowflake in China, 2023 Q1(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
- - Comment on enable Gitlab Container Registry( https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/gitlab/-/issues/89#note_2886693)
- - Add utls-imitate, utls-nosni doc to README (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
- - Review Assign an accepted bandwidth ratio to TBLinks(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/78#...)
- - Review Proxy: add an option to bind to a specific address (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
Next Week:
- - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
- - Try to find a place to host another vantage point
- - Resynchronization with Upsteamed Remove HelloVerify countermeasure (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)
- - consider propagating 2FA everywhere, maybe, at the April Tor Meeting (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41083#note_2884138)
- - logcollector alter system
- - webtunnel document for proxy opertaor
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onyinyang: 2023-03-23 Last week: - Finished up most of the minimally working example of Lox server integration with rdsys
- - Identified and helped to debug async issues with rdsys-backend-api stream
- - Added more helpful comments/error handling and graceful shutdown
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/lox-distributor/-/merg...
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This week: - Finish up the handling of changed resources in the Lox library
- - Improve client side handling of BridgeLines?
- - Discuss next steps with cohosh
Itchy Onion: 2023-03-22 Last week:
- - Closed #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy)
- - Closed #40265 (mac user reporting standalone proxy complaning about broker cert)
- - Worked on #40231 (Client sometimes send offer with no ICE candidates)
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This week: - Tested and created a potential broker security issue (#40266)
- - Stil working on #40231 -- validate SDP contains candidate at the "/client" and "/answer" endpoints broke almsot all of the unit tests
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hackerncoder: 2023-03-09 last week: Next week: - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake) - ooni-exporter web_connectivity - work on "bridgetester"? - how does Iran block bridges
cece: 2022-12-22 This week: - working on creating a dummy WhatsApp bot Next week: - My bot is not yet working as expected s? still trying to figure that out Help with:
- - resources