Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 September 23

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: - 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: - 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: 2021-09-23 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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Cecylia Bocovich