[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-04-28

Shelikhoo shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Apr 28 17:19:12 UTC 2022


Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-28-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
--------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday May 5th 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 ==

     * polyanthum & gettor-01 will be upgraded next week, the servers 
where bridgedb,rdsys,gettor and other anti-censorship infra is hosted

== Discussion ==

     * Distributed Snowflake Server Support
         * Any feedbacks?
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40129#note_2797319
         * No blocker issue discovered.
         * will first deploy the new broker, and give time for proxies 
to update
     * removed smallerRichard builtin server
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/44
     * RKS hackathon
         * (Discussion Skipped)

== Actions ==

     *

== Interesting links ==

     * 
https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kazakhstan-shut-down-its-internet-these-programmers-opened-a-backdoor/
     * https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/114

== Reading group ==

     * We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on 
Apr/28th/2022
         * https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836
         * https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/108
         * 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.

anadahz: 2022-01-27
     Last week:
         - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and 
default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merge_requests/1

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14
Last week:
     - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library 
(snowflake#40124)
         - merge request: snowflake!85
     - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)
         - merge request: snowflake!86
     - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)
     - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor 
browser (tor-browser-build#40474)
     - work on conjure test environment setup
This week:
     - continue work on conjure PT
     - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-04-28
     Last week:
         - made graphs of the snowflake bridge since the server move 2 
weeks ago 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40111#note_2799042
     Next week:
         - look at STATUS VERSION proposal 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
         - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2797271
     Help with:

arlolra: 2022-04-07
     Last week:
         - Merged the rest of snowflake !81
     Next week:
       - Get to snowflake-webext #10
     Evergreen:
         - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and 
used
         - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
         https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_2764731
     Help with:
         -

maxb: 2021-09-23
     Last week:
         - Worked on 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054 
re: utls for broker negotiation
         - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round 
tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74
         - Too busy with work :/
     Next week:
         - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper

meskio: 2022-04-28
     Last week:
             - use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to 
distribute (rdsys#96)
             - give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107)
             - removed smallerRichard builtin bridge (team#44)
             - brainstorm on dnstt (trac#40001)
     Next week:
             - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#101)
             - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment

Shelikhoo: 2022-04-28
    Last Week:
         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to 
snowflake (snowflake!64)
           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result 
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
           - [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
           - [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection 
Server on TPA managed VPS
           - [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges 
with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription")
           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker
           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment 
- Dockerlized
           - [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker
    Next Week:
           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
           - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake 
churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)
           - [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24

Itchy Onion: 2022-04-28
     Last week:
         - debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue
         - had a meeting with Georgetown folks (a recurring meeting to 
go over each other's channel code)
     This week:
         - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next 
Georgetown meeting and also help with rebase snowflake rebasing)
         - go over RACECAR docs

HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16
This week:
     Last/done:
         Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space
     Next:
         Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain

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