[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-15

Itchy Onion itchyonion0518 at protonmail.com
Thu Dec 15 16:43:45 UTC 2022 

Hey everyone!
Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-15-15.59.log.html



And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship team meeting pad--------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday, Dec 15 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 ==


-   No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7


== Discussion ==


-   Is snowflake blocked in russia?

-   it doesn't seem to have much usage there and the vantage point seems to indicate it doesn't work

-   we'll change circumvention settings to recommend first obfs4 bridges


== Actions ==

-   we should investigate if snowflake is blocked in russia (circumvention settings is recommending snowflake in russia, I wonder if we should change that)


== Interesting links ==


== Reading group ==


-   We will discuss "" on

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-   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: 2022-12-14

-   Last week:

-   - made the number of KCP state machines a command-line option and merged it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/119

-   - brought the snowflake bridge installation guide up to date with current settings https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Bridge-Installation-Guide?version_id=fb2a23a1e3f890bccf15410386e3b5d5aca08de5

-   - deployed current performance settings on snowflake-02 bridge

-   - changed srcaddr in extor-static-cookie to a transport option from a command-line option, like in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/extor-static-cookie/-/commit/61e0684e40f84aa57a032e3fa9b80d2d24986bde

-   - had the IP addresses of snowflake-02 added to DDoS mitigation scripts https://github.com/steinex/tor-ddos/issues/2 https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-relay-lists/issues/2

-   - opened an issue for a duplicate flag name in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40238

-   - started an experiment to increase the size of the conntrack table on snowflake-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40239

-   Next week:

-   - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public

-   - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40007

-   - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91

-   - 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

-   Help with:


meskio: 2022-12-15
   Last week:
       - figure out why onionsproutsbot freezees in our server (onionsproutsbot#47)
       - add support for multiple shim-tokens for moat (rdsys#118)
       - remove unused DKIM header verification from BridgeDB (bridgedb!51)
       - catching up with outreachy duties
   Next week:
       - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11)
       - make onionsproutsbot work in systemd (onionsproutsbot#47)
       - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008)

Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08
   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] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector-admin/-/merge_requests/2)
     - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/merge_requests/3)
   Next Week:

-   - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)

-   

    



Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15
    Last week:

-       - worked on RACE performance issue

      - [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines"
      - reviewed some MRs

    This week:

-     - Work on the RACE performance issue

-     - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag

-     - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server



hackerncoder: 2022-12-15
    last week/earlier this week:
        - worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter
    Next week/later this week:
        - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server
        - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
        - work on monitoring bridges health
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