Hey everyone! Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-15-15.59.log.... And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship team 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%93&s... - Sponsor 96 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == - No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7 == Discussion == - Is snowflake blocked in russia? - it doesn't seem to have much usage there and the vantage point seems to indicate it doesn't work - we'll change circumvention settings to recommend first obfs4 bridges == Actions == - we should investigate if snowflake is blocked in russia (circumvention settings is recommending snowflake in russia, I wonder if we should change that) == Interesting links == == 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: 2022-12-14 - Last week: - - made the number of KCP state machines a command-line option and merged it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - - brought the snowflake bridge installation guide up to date with current settings https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guid... - - deployed current performance settings on snowflake-02 bridge - - changed srcaddr in extor-static-cookie to a transport option from a command-line option, like in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/extor-static-cookie/-/commit/61e0684e40f84... - - had the IP addresses of snowflake-02 added to DDoS mitigation scripts https://github.com/steinex/tor-ddos/issues/2 https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-relay-lists/issues/2 - - opened an issue for a duplicate flag name in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - - started an experiment to increase the size of the conntrack table on snowflake-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Next week: - - 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 - - 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: 2022-12-15    Last week:        - figure out why onionsproutsbot freezees in our server (onionsproutsbot#47)        - add support for multiple shim-tokens for moat (rdsys#118)        - remove unused DKIM header verification from BridgeDB (bridgedb!51)        - catching up with outreachy duties    Next week:        - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11)        - make onionsproutsbot work in systemd (onionsproutsbot#47)        - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008) 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] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...)      - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...)    Next Week: - - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15     Last week: -     - worked on RACE performance issue       - [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines"       - reviewed some MRs     This week: -   - Work on the RACE performance issue -   - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag -   - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server hackerncoder: 2022-12-15     last week/earlier this week:         - worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter     Next week/later this week:         - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server         - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)         - work on monitoring bridges health