[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-04-25
onyinyang
onyinyang at torproject.org
Thu Apr 25 17:01:52 UTC 2024
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-04-25-16.15.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, May 2 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: meskio
^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail)
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)
This week's Facilitator: onyinyang
== 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 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
* Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20150
== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
* What is the current repo for the snowflake website?
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/snowflake
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext
* is in the process to be moved to tpo/web but not sure if it
has already being moved
* Snowflake Performance Improvement:
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/219
* There is possible alternative design that would reduce
complexity, should we do it?
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/219#note_3011810
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
* Maybe already known, Brave Browser has a snowflake proxy feature
(since 2023) https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/25315
== 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): 2024-04-25
Last week:
- worked on Lox integration testing
- released a new version of the snowflake addon
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/tree/webext-0.8.1
This week:
- follow up on reported SQS errors
- update wasm-bindgen fork to fix some bugs and hopefully
upstream changes
- create a Lox test environment and instructions for the
browser team
-
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42503
Needs help with:
dcf: 2024-04-25
Last week:
- posted and briefly summarized the paper "Snowflake Anonymous
Network Traffic Identification"
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2024-April/000339.html
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_3021587
Next week:
- open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors
is nonzero
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40262#note_2886018
- parent:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40267
- open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker
- move snowflake-02 to new VM
Help with:
meskio: 2023-04-25
Last week:
- bridgestrap not publishing collector metrics (bridgestrap#199)
- WIP of the email distributor in rdsys (rdsys#186)
- document the bridge distribution mechanisms in rdsys to
replace bridges.tpo/info (rdsys#137)
Next week:
- email distributor in rdsys (rdsys#186)
Shelikhoo: 2024-04-18
Last Week:
- [Merge Request WIP] Add Container Image Mirroring from Tor
Gitlab to Docker
Hub(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/280)
- [Merge Request Done] Rename Stable Container Tags to Latest
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/284
- [Fixed!] Investigate broken debian-testing pipeline for
snowflake(Remove apt install lbzip2 to avoid broken dependencies:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/301)
- Merge request reviews
Next Week/TODO:
- Revise Snowflake Performance Improvement MR
- Merge request reviews
onyinyang: 2023-04-25
Last week(s):
- Responding to pre-existing MR reviews and other
notifications/questions in gitlab
This week:
- Responding to pre-existing MR reviews and other
notifications/questions in gitlab
Probably next week and beyond:
- preparing for upcoming panel (maybe)
- implement some preliminary user feedback mechanism to
identify bridge blocking based on Vecna's work
- improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is
working/valuable
- sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum
- attempt hyper upgrade again and tokio upgrade
(long term things were discussed at the meeting!):
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep
- brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of
bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are
distributed/use in practice
Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and
how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate
resources to people?
1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we
can already consider?
e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges
sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a
requesting user's geoip or something?)
2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so
trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access
to 1)? More? Less?
theodorsm: 2023-04-18
Last weeks:
- Extended Pion dtls library to support hooking of client
hellos (PR: https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/631). Fingerprint
generation of firefox and chrome + mimicking using the client hello hook
have been moved to its own repo: https://github.com/theodorsm/covertDTLS
- Gave some comments on the recent"Snowflake Anonymous
Network Traffic Identification" paper:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014.
Next weeks:
- Add hook to pion/webrtc so it can be used in snowflake.
- Test and validate mimicked client hello with snowflake.
- Add randomized fingerprint
- Analyze the snowflake captures done in "Snowflake
Anonymous Network Traffic Identification" paper.
Help with:
Facilitator Queue:
meskio shelikhoo onyinyang
1. First available staff in the Facilitator Queue will be the
facilitator for the meeting
2. After facilitating the meeting, the facilitator will be moved to the
tail of the queue
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