Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-08-15.58.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, Dec 15 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 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 ==
* Cece is the new Outreachy intern working on Rdsys (adding a new social media platform) until March 5th! Please welcome her to the team! * No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7 * Tor Browser 12.0 has the snowflake-02 bridge * https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/ * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/91DA221A149007D0FD9E5515F5786...
== Discussion ==
* snowflake-02 is live in TB 12 * not in Orbot yet * plan to see how things go in Tor Browser, bring it up with Orbot in sponsor 96 meeting in January 2023 * make obfs4 distinguishability reports public? * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4... * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4... * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 * we were waiting for a threshold of 50% of bridges to upgrade * some emails to gmail.com in the last batch of notifications bounced (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-December/003519.html) * we'll send one more batch of notifications, then plan to make public after the break on 2023-01-09 * does ajax.aspnetcdn.com still work in turkmenistan?? * it might be working, and we only use it for meek * snowflake uses cdn.sstatic.net * curl and dig tests are not showing injection for ajax.aspnetcdn.com nor cdn.sstatic.net from outside (https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/80#issuecomment-906533865) * rwails and NRL working on a new pluggable transport * any compatibility issues between C-tor and Arti? probably not. * how to run a PT in arti: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/333
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
* https://ntc.party/t/ajax-aspnetcdn-com/3571 * Reported block of ajax.aspnetcdn.com in Russia, by TSPU, since mid-November? * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=web_connectivi...
== 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 2022-11-24 Last week: - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122) This week: - continue work on conjure client - more work on reputation-based bridge dist - fixup snowflake!108 Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-12-08 Last week: - disabled non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - merged some snowflake-server performance improvements, thanks itchyonion - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - asked to have snowflake-01's other IP addresses excepted in DDoS mitigation scripts https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Next week: - performance tuning on snowflake-02 bridge - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4... - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91 - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide - have snowflake-02's outgoing IP address added to DDoS mitigation scripts - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - 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: 2022-12-08 Last week: - update gettor/onionsproutsbot for the Tor Browser release - investigate why systemd freezes onionsproutsbot (onionsproutsbot#47) - some bridges appear offline in metrics.tpo (team#112) - support onbasca attempts to test bridge speed (onbasca#130) - onboard our outreachy intern - review merge request to use a different network on docker bridge images (docker-obfs4-proxy!10) Next week: - add localization support to rdsys
Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08 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... - [Merge Request Done] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser - [Merge Request Done] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1" Next Week: - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - [Coding] More Reliable Raw Log Upload For log collector
Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24 Last week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results) This week: - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts) - review some MRs