Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-11-03-15.58.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html

And our meeting pad:

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

Next meeting: Thursday Nov 10 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%...         * Sponsor 96             * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

== Announcements ==

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== Discussion ==

* Lantern and snowflake         * lantern is working on a p2p volunteer proxy system similar to snowflake         * a highly concurrent client (capable of managing many simultaneous peer connections) that could do N:M multiplexing between downstream and upstream connections         * very observable so that it could send lots of status information to the UI     * Distributed Snowflake Server Support will be included in Tor Browser Testing Channel(Alpha) Soon: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_req...     * snowflake-01 got 20% increase of usage the last 24h, after being stable for few weeks     * PT args size issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/104

== Actions ==

== 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 2022-11-03     Last week:         - set conjure/tapdance assets directory to pt dir (conjure#11)         - reviewed and merge fixed to right-adjusted langs (snowflake-webext#64)         - fixed webext and badge build to only include 90%+ complete locales (snowflake-webext#62)         - more progress on mozilla mv3 prep         - discovered problem with webext translations (snowflake-webext#66)         - reviewed and merged fix to close stale 0 byte transfer connections (snowflake-webext!54)         - reviewed webext performance improvements (snowflake-webext!39)     This week:         - website/extension release (have to do extension translations by hand)         - try again to reach out to conjure developers         - start working on salmon     Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-11-03     Last week:         - opened an issue to abbreviate `ice` specifications in snowflake bridge lines https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...         - contributed information about snowflake usage and Tor Metrics graphs https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/analysis/-/issues/4...         - did some review of the presentation of right-to-left languages in the snowflake webext https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...     Next week:         - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 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...         - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429         - break up snowflake-server performance improvements into separate merge requests https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...         - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide     Help with:

meskio: 2022-11-03    Last week:        - gettor email loop fix (rdsys#133)        - gettor imap reconnection fixes (rdsys#134)        - open a dicussion about PT arg passing (team#104)        - send a tor-relays obfs4proxy upgrade reminder        - review outreachy merge requests in rdsys    Next week:        - obfs4proxy 0.0.14 in Tor Browser

Shelikhoo: 2022-11-03    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...         - Rollout distributed snowflake (include definition of secondary bridge on broker) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...         - Rollout distributed snowflake (get bridgeline into tor browser) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_req...    Next Week:         - [Research] WebTunnel Planning (Continue)         - [Research] Fix vantage point summary upload in China         - Release New version of Snowflake WebExt      - [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu... (Continue)      - Finish all the reviews

Itchy Onion: 2022-11-03     Last week:         - Increase the number of snowflake proxies spawned in RACE and ran it against the CI test. I was able to pass every time (6 times in total). But since Tuesday I've been having trouble starting a new deployment with Rib. I've been in talk with TwoSix but so far nothing has helped.     This week:         - Fixed the Rib issue. Now snowflake passes CI tests 100%.