Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2023-02-23

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-02-23-15.58.log.... And our meeting pad: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THIS IS A PUBLIC PAD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anti-censorship -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday, March 02 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-do 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 Sponsor 139 <-- hackerncoder, irl, joydeep, meskio, emmapeel working on it https://pad.riseup.net/p/sponsor139-meeting-pad == Announcements == == Discussion == What is the status of activating the snowflake-02 bridge in Orbot? snowflake-01 is still pretty much saturated, and snowflake-02 relatively almost unused no news yet from Orbot on status of deployment latest Orbot release was 2023-01-13 will add to S96 agenda and discuss in 2 weeks (On March 2rd) if they are not around forking obfs4proxy, a new name? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4... rdsys is using onbasca to measure bridge bandwidth https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/76 bridgestrap is reporing most bridges as non-functional looks similar to an old issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/7 rdsys can handle the situation and will not be a big problem if is not fixed fast == Actions == meskio will write a survival guide on onbasca move the ampcache snowflake fallback forward == Interesting links == https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=IR&since=2023-01-20&until=2023-... continued sporadic blocking of cdn.sstatic.net in Iran https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... == Reading group == We will discuss "Detecting Tor Bridge from Sampled Traffic in Backbone Networks" on March 9 https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/madweb2021_23011_paper.pdf 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 2023-02-16 Last week: - FOCI workshop prep - Lox tor browser integration work in progress - https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/tor-browser/-/tree/lox-integration This week: - Lox tor browser integration - continue work on conjure client-side recovery Needs help with: dcf: 2023-02-16 Last week: - opened issue to restart snowflake bridges for haproxy CVE-2023-0056, CVE-2023-25725 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... Next week: - restart snowflake bridges 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... (for real) Help with: meskio: 2023-02-23 Last week: - integrate onbasca into rdsys to test bridge speed (rdsys#150) - deploy onbasca in polyanthum - patch onbasca API to be easier to parse (onbasca!60) - investigate bridgestrap issue, is reporting 30% of functional bridges Next week: - Vacation!!! Shelikhoo: 2023-02-16 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... - Try to find a place to host another vantage point (not working so far) - WebTunnel @ TorBrowser mobile Next Week: - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue) - Try to find a place to host another vantage point - WebTunnel @ TorBrowser mobile onyinyang: 2023-02-23 Last week: - Lox wasm bindings for Tor integration: - encrypted bridge table (this took longer than expected due to confusion about needing to implement deserialize) - level up This week: - continuing with bindings for the rest of the Lox protocols: - issue invitation - check blockage - blockage migration Help with: - questions about best way to handle timing for freshness credentials (fresh for x time period or fresh until x time each day)<this is not especially urgent> Itchy Onion: 2023-02-23 Last week: - Continue working on issue #40108 (standalone proxy bind specific IP) - Created issue #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy) - Foci - Work on updating snowflake plugin for the latest race version (code freeze on Friday) This week: - Holiday - Contine working on issue #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy) hackerncoder: 2023-02-23 last week: - work on monitoring bridges health Next week: - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake) - work on "bridgetester"? 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
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