[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-07-07

[Shelikhoo]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-07-15.59.html 
<http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html>

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday July 14 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 Tor.

== 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 ==

         * What is the status of adjusting snowflake (pion) DTLS 
signature to avoid blocking in Russia? (Based on offset of 
supported_groups extension.)
                 * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40030#note_2804998
                 * https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/474
                 * https://ntc.party/t/webrtc/2174/21
                 * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 
(generally)
                 * shell will do some research on what makes sense as 
infra for testing snowflake connections
                         * do we want a second broker for testing?
                         * or multi-pool support?
         * shell will produce a TB tgz with a modified snowflake to test


     * BridgeDB provides offline 
bridges（example，https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/A0B6EBF970BBA8411AB032A36C026B387A4BF7CF)
         * meskio will investigate it together with 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/80

     * wolpertinger retirement
         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/wolpertinger
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/85#note_2819202

== 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 2022-06-30
Last week:
     - got tor to bootstrap fully with the deployed conjure station and 
bridge
     - met with CU Boulder team to discuss conjure rollout plan
This week:
     - follow up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection 
between the station and bridge
     - a few quality of life conjure issues
         - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/?sort=updated_desc&state=opened&assignee_username%5B%5D=cohosh&first_page_size=20
     - draft an announcement of conjure for forum and development 
community mailing lists
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-07-07
     Last week:
             - commented on STATUS VERSION proposal and proposed some 
text 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63#note_2817321
             - commented on Snowflake user estimates vis-à-vis Tor 
Metrics 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40047#note_2817372 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40057#note_2818588
     Next week:
     Help with:

meskio: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
        - test rdsys-gettor (rdsys#105)
        - migrate moat-shim into anti-censorship gitlab
        - add token to moat-shim (moat-shim!1)
        - snowflake webext reviews (snowflake-webext !31 !34 !35)
        - evaluate if wolpertinger can be retired (team#85)
        - reorganize Q3 issues
    Next week:
        - test of rdsys-gettor
        - open the conversation about bridge URIs and QR codes

Shelikhoo: 2022-07-07
    Last Week:
         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to 
snowflake (snowflake!64)
         - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to 
Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)
    Next Week:
         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result 
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
         - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control 
Connection Forwarder
         - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection 
Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on 
updated ooni
         - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to 
Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)
result

Itchy Onion: 2022-07-07
     Last week:
         - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81
         - taking over part of testing snowflake
     This week:
         - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, fixing a leaking file 
descriptor issue
         - taking over part of testing snowflake




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