[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 September 23

[Cecylia Bocovich]

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
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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/snowflake/-/issues/40065

    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/snowflake/-/issues/40065

    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/snowflake/-/issues/40054
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:

    -