Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-02-08

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-02-08-15.59.html And our meeting pad: https://pad.riseup.net/p/r.9574e996bb9c0266213d38b91b56c469 Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, February1516:00 UTC Facilitator: meskio Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress) This week's Facilitator: onyinyang == 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... <https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None> * Sponsor 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 * Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_nam... == Announcements == * PSA: Elections in Pakistan Today!. == Discussion == * Internet outage in PK: * https://twitter.com/CloudflareRadar/status/1755435530873888990 * > Disruptions to #mobile #Internet connectivity in #Pakistan have been observed on @telenorpakistan, @Zongers, and @jazzpk starting at 0200 UTC, despite assurances from @PTAofficialpk that mobile services would remain active on Election Day, February 8. https://radar.cloudflare.com/pk?dateRange=1d * https://explorer.ooni.org/findings/108298926901 * Elections in Azerbaijan yesterday, connectivity status unknown * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2023-02-08&until=2024-02... <https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/circumvention?since=2023-02-08&until=2024-02-09&probe_cc=AZ> * Elections in Senegal earlier this week with Internet shutdown * Elections postponed to December 2024, Internet connection restored * == Actions == == Interesting links == * TorKameleon appeared at TrustCom/ITCCN 2023 * https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17544 * https://hpcn.exeter.ac.uk/trustcom2023/accepted-paper-list.phpITCCN-456 * Uses WebRTC data channels with Encoded Transforms, as discussed at https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-February/00... * https://github.com/AfonsoVilalonga/TorKameleon * Previously discussed at 2023-10-19 meeting https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-project-anti-censorship-team-meeting-note... * FOCI registration is open (attendance is free): https://foci.community/register * February 19th == 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): 2024-02-08 * Last week: * - merged and deployed update to circumvention settings for Egypt * - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys-admin/-/merge_reques... * - opened issue for snowflake update in Tor Browser build * - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/41... * This week: * - create tor-browser-build MR for snowflake version bump * - update snowflake web[site, extension] translations * - update wasm-bindgen fork to fix some bugs and hopefully upstream changes * - tor-browser-build updates for lox wasm + bindings generation * - rebase and try out manifest v3 patch * - Conjure bridge maintenance * Needs help with: dcf: 2024-02-08 * Last week: * - reconfirmed eclips.is account(where the snowflake broker is hosted) * - "You have EUR 184.1 per month value of resources in use. If eclips.is were to transition to a (partly) paid service, would you be able to cover these costs from your own resources?" * Next week: * - review draft MR for unreliable data channels https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * - 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... * - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker * - move snowflake-02 to new VM Help with: meskio: 2023-12-21 Last week: - grant writing Next week: Shelikhoo: 2024-02-08 Last Week: * - HTTPS distributors in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/191 * - Merge request reviews Next Week/TODO: * - HTTPS distributors in rdsys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/191 * - Create Issue for "Merging webtunnel + lyrebird" * - Update WebTunnel Container Image * - Inspect Snowflake Situation In China onyinyang: 2023-02-08 * Last week(s): * - Continuing with bug fixing the syncing function, nearly finished * * This week: * - Finish up fixingproblemswith syncing functions * -Make Lox invitation endpoint only accessible via telegram * - attempt hyper upgrade again * * (long term things were discussed at the meeting!): https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep * - brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are distributed/use in practice * Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate resources to people? * 1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we can already consider? * e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a requesting user's geoip or something?) * 2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access to 1)? More? Less? * theodorsm: 2023-01-11 * Last weeks: * - Currently in the start phase of writing my master thesis (to be finished late june 2024) in communication technology on reducing distinguishability of DTLS. The goal is to implement a validated DTLS anti-fingerprinting library similar to uTLS (useful for Snowflake). * Next weeks: * - Talk with Sean DuBois about contributing to adding anti-fingerprinting capabilities to the pion library * Help with: * - Find recent data set of captured DTLS traffic -- --- onyinyang GPG Fingerprint 3CC3 F8CC E9D0 A92F A108 38EF 156A 6435 430C 2036
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