[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-08-18

[Shelikhoo]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-18-15.58.html 
<http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html>

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Aug 25 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 ==

     *

== Discussion ==

(New)
     * Think a new name for HTTPT PT?
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/6
         * we'll rename it to webtunnel

     * Update on the manifest V3 situation for Snowflake webextensions 
and possible solutions
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/29
         * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1207214
         * manifest V3 doesn't allow to run webrtc in background
         * chromium is planning to deprecate v2 beggining of next year, 
it will continue be working on firefox
         * a possible workaround is to open a tab with the badge
         * will ask tor, anti-censorship mailing list for suggestions

     * Snowflake in Turkmenistan: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
         * request users to submit log from Tor Browser
     *
== Actions ==


== 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 2022-08-18
     Last week:
     - Followed up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection 
between the conjure station and bridge
     - Worked on Snowflake webextension V3 manifest update
     - FOCI townhall and HoTFOCI
     This week:
     - 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: 2022-08-18
     Last week:
         - updated graphs of users in Russia 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2826459
         - snowflake CDN bookkeeping 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs/diff?version_id=fba86f8f84c927da276b4a4256b628e66aaef689
         - talked to people at the FOCI townhall and HotFOCI 
(https://hotfoci.org/). gave people references on:
             - blockpage injection in China: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40026 
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-13-15.59.log.html#l-134
             - running a bridge: 
https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/
             - RACECAR and obfs5: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/30716#note_2602869
     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
     Help with:

meskio: 2022-08-18
    Last week:
        - prepare bridgedb 0.14 release
        - fight with bridgedb tests that don't want to pass
        - prepare a deployment of rdsys-gettor
        - modify circumvention settings map to support hardcoded bridgelines
        - prepare changes to use azure for snowflake in turkmenistan
    Next week:
        - deploy moat shim-token support
        - deploy rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-08-18
    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)
         - [Merge Request Awaiting] 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
         - [Deployment] Enable unprivilaged user namespace support on 
probetelemetry-01@ for systemd user unit isolation 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40855
    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] HTTPT Planning(Continue)
         - [Coding] HTTPT PT

Itchy Onion: 2022-08-18
     Last week:
         - Talked to Eliana from Georgetown on the leaking file 
descriptor issue fix
         - RACE 2.2.X results came back on Friday, didn't pass the CI test
     This week:
         - Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebasing upstream, 
changing timeout in snowflake library used) and talked to Cecylia about 
it (can you mention here what are those few things? --gaba)
     Next week:
         - Continue working on RACE 2.2.X (add more error logging in the 
plugin code to hopefully pinpoint at which point messages are being dropped)



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