[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-02
meskio
meskio at torproject.org
Thu Jun 2 16:26:46 UTC 2022
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday June 9nd 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 ==
* anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net
== Discussion ==
Endless loop on the latest snowflake:
Tor NOTICE: Managed proxy "TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\snowflake-client.exe": broker failure timed out waiting for answer!
Tor NOTICE: Managed proxy "TorBrowser\Tor\PluggableTransports\snowflake-client.exe": connection failed timeout waiting for DataChannel.OnOpen
* Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075) is now under review. Comments are welcome (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/95)
* count disctinct proxy ips, to see how fast they change
* enforce 2FA in gitlab
* all accounts with group commit access have 2FA in gitlab already :)
== Actions ==
*
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23
* https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559
* 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 2022-06-02
Last week:
- updated gitlab CI to include go v1.18 (snowflake#40144)
- Remove redundant NAT check at standalone proxy startup (snowflake#40146)
- resolved snowflake#40145
- reviews
This week:
- continued work on conjure PT
- continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-06-02
Last week:
- set up access to snowflake-02 bridge site for shelikhoo https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2808750
- posted about other DTLS fingerprints that are being filtered in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40030#note_2809393
Next week:
- look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
Help with:
meskio: 2022-06-02
Last week:
- use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
- update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
- don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96)
- contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have an old version of obfs4proxy
Next week:
- start working on gettor (rdsys#105)
Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26
Last Week:
- [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)
- [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29)
- [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075) (snowflake!95)
- [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) <- awaiting/blocked
Next Week:
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
- [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)
- [Research & Discussion] HTTPT & V2Ray related
Itchy Onion: 2022-06-02
Last week:
- work on s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker)
This week:
- continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests)
- ongoing debugging with s28 (there are other issues, not sure if related to issue 81 yet)
- working on issue 40117 (display NAT log type to stderr in nonverbose mode)
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