[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-01

Thu Dec 1 16:55:09 UTC 2022

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-01-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Dec 08 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?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
		* 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%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None
		* Sponsor 96
			* https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

== Announcements ==

	* 

== Discussion ==

	* Tor Browser multi-locale
		* TB 12.0 bundles all locales in the installer, this affect gettor
		* the release will happen early next week
	* Reported as offline in metrics, some bridges are online and running  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/112
		* they miss the 'running' flag, something is happening in the bridge authority
	* (Re)license webtunnel as MIT license: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel
		* we all agree MIT is a good license of this project
	* webtunnel is waiting for review from the application team to be included in TB alpha
		* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/595#note_2858936
		* we'll need small changes in the UI so users can request webtunnel bridges or use the default ones

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

	* 

== Reading group ==

	* We will discuss "Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study" on Dec 1
		* https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-123/
		* https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/dnspriv21-02-paper.pdf
		* 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 2022-11-24
	Last week:
	    - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
	This week:
	    - continue work on conjure client
	    - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
	    - fixup snowflake!108
	Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-12-01
	Last week:
	Next week:
		- disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122
		- migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
		- try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
		- document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide
		- make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/119
	Help with:
		- review of remaining snowflake-server performance improvements
			- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/115
			- https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/118

meskio: 2022-12-01
   Last week:
       - investigate gettor freeze (rdssy#129)
       - add support for multi-locale Tor Browser in gettor (rdsys#136)
       - check the number of migrated bridges to the new obfs4
       - upload a new version of snowlfake proxy docker image
       - document the use of ephemeral ports on the docker image (docker-snowflake-proxy!7)
       - review uTLS fix (snowflake!124)
   Next week:
       - add localization support to rdsys

Shelikhoo: 2022-12-01
   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/-/issues/1
		- [Merge Request] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser (Continue)
		- [Merge Request] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1" 
   Next Week:
		- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
		- [Coding] More Reliable Raw Log Upload For log collector

Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24
    Last week:
	    - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load
      - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results)
    This week:
	  - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts)
	  - review some MRs

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