[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-06-24-16.00.html

and our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday June 24th 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 checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Announcements ==

    No announcements this week

== Discussion ==

    - do we have previous info on the requirements to run a snowflake proxy?

      - (re
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2021-June/000173.html)

      - we currently have
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/snowflake/standalone/

      - we have an issue to improve documentation for a standalone proxy
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40031

      - we could add Jacobo's hardware observations to it


== Actions ==

    No actions this week

== Interesting links ==

    Jacobo provided some details on the snowflake proxies they are running


https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2021-June/000173.html

== 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 2021-06-24
Last week:
    - wrote, deployed snowflake!43 to solve a stats bug
    - fixed up snowflake!42 and found a few more race conditions
    - commented on bridgestrap#15
    - worked on debugging snowflake memory leak (snowflake#40052)
        - deployed some memory profiling tools
        - wrote a fix snowflake!45
    - started reviewing rdsys!11
    - s28 deadline work
    - planning for new s96
    - reviewed bridgedb!20
This week:
    - finish reviewing rdsys!11
    - review bridgstrap#15 when ready
    - work on bridgedb#32276 deployment
    - follow up on arlo's snowflake broker work
    - afk next week
Needs help with:
    - review of snowflake!45

arlolra: 2021-06-10

    Last week:

    - More snowflake!39

    Next week:

    - Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10

    Help with:

    - snowflake !39


dcf: 2021-06-24

    Last week:

    - did a security upgrade of tor on the snowflake bridge
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40050

    - helped debug snowflake server memory leak
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40052

    - answered a core tor question about managed transports
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40414

    Next week:

    - review fix for snowflake server resource leak
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/45

    - begin AMP cache rendezvous for snowflake
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25985

    Help with:

maxb: 2021-06-03

    Last week:

    - Made some improvements to github.com/max-b/nat-testing for
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/25595


    - Now have separate containers for each piece along w/ a reasonably
simulated network topology

    - Got really good feedback from cohosh as always

    Next week:

    - Make config fixes cohosh suggested

    - Implement alternative NAT types

    - Add testing wrapper w/ "pass/fail" conditions


meskio: 2021-06-24

    Last week:

        - proof of concept of gettor in rdsys (rdsys!11 rdsys#32)
        - add bridgestrap CollecTor exporter (bridgestrap!7 bridgestrap#15)
        - code reviews: snowflake!44 snowflake!43 snowflake!42

    Next week:

    - modify snowflake proxy to assign proxies based on self-reported
client load (snowflake#40048)

    - act on snowflake!11 review

    - merge access keys translators help brdigedb!20

    Help with:

    -