[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 July 8

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone,

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-08-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday July 8th 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 ==

    Tor Browser 10.5 released with Snowflake.

    https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-105

    Peep the charts 👀


https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/5481936581E23D2D178105D44DB6915AB06BFB7F


https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-transport.html?start=2021-01-01&end=2021-07-10&transport=snowflake


== Discussion ==



== Actions ==

    Please add what you were up to in June to the monthly report:
https://pad.riseup.net/p/dlSPsaKmgz_zoucqcp_N


== Interesting links ==

    snowflake-client.exe in TB 10.5 detected as malware

    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2021-July/045752.html


https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/of1gu3/windows_defender_latest_tor_browser_bundle/

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/issues/237



== 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 2021-07-08
Last week:
    - quick fixup for snowflake client torrc (snowflake#40041)
    - talked to orbot about their default bridge configs
        - https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/issues/488
    - Updated sample torrc files to encourage use of BridgeDistribution
instead of PublishServerDescriptor
        - core/tor!410
    - reviewed bridgestrap!7 (collector metrics for bridgestrap)
    - reviewed snowflake!46 (have proxies report their client counts)
    - more work on shim for moat (bridgedb#32276)
    - wrote up a quick iptproxy patch to have orbot report a different
proxy type to the broker
        - https://github.com/tladesignz/IPtProxy/pull/10
    - reviewed snowflake!39 (split broker into components)
This week:
    - followup review for rdsys!11
    - finish deploying moat shim (bridgedb#32276)
    - more work on snowflake documentation (snowflake#40031)
    - kcp/smux parameters (snowflake#40026)
Needs help with:
    - snowflake-webext!18 (website change)

arlolra: 2021-07-08

    Last week:

    - More snowflake!39

    Next week:

    - Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-07-07 (will be absent for 2021-07-08 meeting)

    Last week:

    Next week:

    - AMP cache rendezvous for snowflake
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25985

    Help with:


agix:2021-07-08

    Last week:

    -Off till next week 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: 2021-07-28

    Last week:

    - Worked on github.com/max-b/nat-testing for
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25595


    - Have the client actually using the snowflake proxies, but not
actually building a bridge/making a connection

    - Debugging has been difficult/required actually understanding a bit
more of the underlying protocols/etc

    Next week:

    - Fix proxy connections!!

    - Make config fixes cohosh suggested

    - Implement alternative NAT types

    - Add testing wrapper w/ "pass/fail" conditions


meskio: 2021-07-08

    Last week:

          - merge collector metrics in bridgestrap (bridgestrap#15)

          - merge snowflake assign proxies based on self-reported client
load (snowflake#40048)

       - gettor rdsys integration (rdsys!11 rdsys#32)

    Next week:

    - continue work on gettor in rdsys (rdsys!11 rdsys#32)

    - document our server setup in TPA wiki

    Help with:

    -