Hi everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-09-23-15.59.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday September 23th 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 ==

Job opening on the anti-censorship team: https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/software-developer-anticensorship-2/ \o/

== Discussion ==

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

the go.mod warning turned out to be caused by a too-old git, and was nothing to fix in goptlib

reading group: "BlindTLS: Circumventing TLS-based HTTPS censorship"

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474564

summary https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/86

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

https://censoredplanet.org/webinar2021

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/17/icloud-private-relay-disabled-russia/

== Reading group ==

We will discuss "Exploring Simple Detection Techniques for DNS-over-HTTPS Tunnels" on 2021-10-07

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474563

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 2021-09-23 Last week(s): - fixed gitlab CI - afk till tuesday - a bunch of s28 things - anti-censorship/team#25 - anti-censorship/team#24 - hiring tasks This week: - continue snowflake v2 improvements - fixups for snowflake!56 - implement changes to server API - review rdsys!15 - catch up on censorship-analysis measurements and work - do some snowflake simulations in shadow :) 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:

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dcf: 2021-09-23

Last week:

- identified cause of go.mod issue (nothing to do with snowflake or goptlib, as it turns out) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

Next week:

Help with:

agix:2021-07-15

Last week:

-Off due to final exams

Next week:

-Work on bridgebox for rdsys

-More research on httpt #4

Help with:

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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:

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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: 2021-09-23

Last week:

- implement censorship snapsot available on moat (bridgedb#40025)

- Honour the operators choice of distribution method for bridges (rdsys#39)

- parse bridge-descriptors file and fix networkstatus parser (rdsys#69)

- Hiring process

Next week:

- deploy censorship snapshot as part of rdsys (rdsys#61)

- refactor snowflakes geoip code into a library (team#32)

- parse bridge-descriptors file and fix networkstatus parser (rdsys#69)

Help with:

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