[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 July 22

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-07-22-15.59.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday July 22nd 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 ==


== 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 2021-07-22
Last week:
    - worked on automated reachability scripts (censorship-analysis#40018)
    - hiring meetings
    - reviewed snowflake-webext!19
    - checked on snowflake probe measurements in china (snowflake#32657)
    - set up snowflake + obfs4 probes in turkey (censorship-analysis#40007)
    - in-progress review of rdsys!11
This week:
    - continue reviewing rdsys!11
    - more work on snowflake performance (snowflake#40026)
    - more work on snowflake documentation (snowflake#40031)
    - look at snowflake!50
Needs help with:


dcf: 2021-07-22

    Last week:

    - merge request for snowflake AMP cache rendezvous
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/50

    - commented on KCP/smux buffer size increase
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/48

    - filed issue about standalone snowflake proxy reconnecting quickly
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40055

    - snowflake CDN bookkeeping
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs

    Next week:

    Help with:

    - review of snowflake AMP cache rendezvous (no rush)
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/50


maxb: 2021-07-15

    Last week:

    - Opened
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054
re: utls for broker negotiation

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


    - Added a snowflake-proxy-no-nat and a snowflake-client-no-nat to
help with debugging

    - Successfully making connections from snowflake-client and
snoflake-client-no-nat through the snowflake-proxy-no-nat, but not
having any success with the snowflake-proxy (with nat).

    - Added a local dockerized STUN server

    Next week:

    - Use wireshark to figure out the difference between successful
snowflake-proxy-no-nat and unsuccessful snowflake-proxy-nat

    - Work on implementing different NAT types, particularly in a way
that's conducive to automatic testing

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


meskio: 2021-07-22

    Last week:

    - submit the "final" gettor rdsys integration (rdsys!11 rdsys#32)

    - report number of clients on the snowflake webextension
(snowflake-webext!19)

    - Wait pollInterval in snowflake between proxy offers
(snowflake#40055 snowflake!51)

    - link anti-censorship doc from the TPA wiki (team#4)

    - review snowflake README clean ups (snowflake!49)

    - looking up at issues with bridgestrap tests and CollecTor
(bridgestrap#20)

    - fixes in mutex usage in bridgestrap collector metrics (bridgestrap!10)

    Next week:

    - AFK for the next 3 weeks

    Help with:

    -