Hi everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-04-15.59.html and the meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday November 4th 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. == Announcements == welcome shelikhoo! == Discussion == - change in proxy NAT types we had an issue with the slow recovery of "unrestricted" proxy NATs opened https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Confused about the meek client metrics in Turkmenistan https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.png?start=2021-08-0... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40030 snowflake seems to be blocked we have prioritized an easier way to get snowflake connection info: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... == Actions == please fill out the monthly report for september + october https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-monthly-report-keep == Interesting links == https://github.com/xiaokangwang/VLite == Reading group == We will discuss "Measuring QQMail's automated email censorship in China" on 2021-11-11 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474560 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 2021-11-04 Last week: - some reviews - updates to changelog - NSF grant planning - wrapping up snowflake for v2 release (snowflake#40063) - worked on snowflake + shadow performance work - onboarding preparation tasks - helped debug snowflake domain name resolution (snowflake#40057) - created snowflake#40076 for client network event callbacks - monitored snowflake broker prometheus metrics This week: - automate blocking detection for rotating IP bridges (censorship-analysis#40020) - more snowflake performance work (snowflake#40026) Needs help with: arlolra: 2021-08-12 Last week: - Migrate to v3 of the webextension manifest Next week: - Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10 - Write up the pitch for our use case for supporting creating PeerConnections in background service workers https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/77 Help with: - dcf: 2021-11-04 Last week: - rebooted snowflake VPSes https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - made issues for probetest failures https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - looked up issues possibly related to bridge bootstrap failures https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40396#note_2757812 Next week: - will miss 2021-11-11 meeting Help with: agix:2021-11-04 Last week: - Next week: -Adjust BridgeDB Patch to Gitlab -Start with rdsys issue#40 (twitter gettor distributor) Help with: -@meskio: Is it ok for you if I work on the twitter gettor distributor? 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: - 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: 2021-11-04 Last week: - Make prometheus alerts for snowflake (snowflake#40072) - starting to have an implementation of bridgedb bridge using rdsys (bridgedb#40031) - copy snowflake technical overview into our wiki https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Next week: - make bridgedb a rdsys distributor (bridgedb#40031) - improve bridgestrap manage of the cache (bridgestrap#27)