[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-09-01
Shelikhoo
shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Sep 1 17:45:37 UTC 2022
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-09-01-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 8 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 ==
* There will not be a meeting Sept 15th
* Conjure PT ready to try out:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000240.html
== Discussion ==
* Snowflake in Turkmenistan:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
* we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with
specific port for stun servers and azure and domain front
* the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for
others, as they block port 3478 and 3479
* TorCloak Integration with BridgeDB
* We are currently developing a new Tor Pluggable Transport
called TorCloak. TorCloak's basic mechanism is to conceale Tor traffic
on the video streams of WebRTC-based video conferencing services.
* We are now coming to a stage on our project in which we are
discussing solutions to disseminate our bridges.
* Sent a draft of the solution via the mailing list.
*
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000239.html
* Get everyone's opinion and feedback on the solution
(New)
* Next Step for WebTunnel
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel/-/tree/7e7bebb499a46345b9adf030666698427965e953
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor
Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8
* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938
* PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938
* 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 2022-08-25
Last week:
- Worked on reproducible builds of Conjure (conjure#14)
- helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM
This week:
- Snowflake web extension v3 manifest
- polish the badge-helper extension more
- email tor-dev and anti-censorship team about the current plan
- 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 (are you in contact with comms@ about this? --gaba)
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- worked at understanding the nature of the changes in
obfs4proxy-0.0.12
- identified the cause of the probabilistic (fails 3/4 of the
time) failures in
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40804
- found a way to remotely detect old versions
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
- replied to question about TorCloak integration with Tor
bridge distribution
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-September/000241.html
Next week:
- disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
- 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: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- continue with rdsys-gettor deployment (distributor configured
and working, fixes on TPA side, ...)
- deploy BridgeDB css/svg fixes
- review webtunnel implementation (webtunnel!1)
- review webextension merge requests (webextension!39)
- review new snowflake.torproject.org page
- scann obfs4 bridges for pre-0.0.12 versions
Next week:
- deploy rdsys-gettor
- fix language issues in BridgeDB (bridgedb#40056)
Shelikhoo: 2022-09-01
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)
- [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake
Support
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Merged] Raw Probe Log Data Collection
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1
- [Research] HTTPT Planning
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
- [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
- [Coding] WebTunnel PT
- [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe
https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F5611FA6A)
- [Deployment] Raw Probe Log Data Collection
Next Week:
- [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection
Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on
updated ooni
- [Research+Coding] Raw Probe Log Data Collection
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1
- [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
- [Research] Log Collector Speed Measurement
Itchy Onion: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- RACE 2.2.x
- RACE T&E meeting
- Review !98
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/98)
This week:
- Researched and discussed the implication of disabling mdns
with the team
- Verify !98
- Will spend some time on RACE 2.2.x either today or tomorrow
Next week:
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