[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-23

Thu Jun 23 16:55:50 UTC 2022

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-23-15.58.html  

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday July 7 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 ==

	* Next week is hackweek, no ant-censorship meeting!!!

== 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?
	* snowflake spike on metrics
		* https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.html?start=2022-03-24&end=2022-06-22&country=af
		* being looked at the metrics side: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40057

== Actions ==

	https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/32

== 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 2022-06-23
Last week:
    - got tor to bootstrap fully with conjure PT in test environment
        - testenv: https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/phantombox
        - conjure PT: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/
    - ran a quick tutorial on reproducible snowflake/tor-browser builds
This week:
    - work with conjure developers to get the PT working with the production conjure station
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-06-16
	Last week:
		- snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs
		- commented on dnstt pluggable transport client https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac/-/issues/40001#note_2811603
		- commented on restarts for snowflake probetest https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40147#note_2812079
	Next week:
		- look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
	Help with:

meskio: 2022-06-23
	Last week:
			- gitlab implementation in gettor
			- metrics for gettor 
			- test gettor-rdsys setup 
	Next week:
			- deployment of rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-06-23
   Last Week:
     - [Merged & Deployed] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) 
     - [Merged] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) 
     - [Merged & Deployed] 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)
		- [Research & Discussion] Discussion about the possibility of adding PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82)
		- [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni result
		- [Deployment] Snowflake Broker
   Next Week:
		  - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
		  - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
		  - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni result

Itchy Onion: 2022-06-23
    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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