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Subject: Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-08-25

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-25-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 1 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

== Discussion ==

	* 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 begining 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
		* we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure ad domian front
		* the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479

(New)
	* Reading group suggestion
		* "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel"
		* 6 pages
		* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938
		* PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938

	* new version of BridgeDB and rdsys
		* a facelift of bridges.torproject.org
		* svg images and translations are broken but working on it

== 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: 2022-08-25
	Last week:
		- documented re-block of www.torproject.org in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2830779
	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: 2022-08-25
   Last week:
       - release BridgeDB 0.14
       - release rdsys 0.3
       - deploy BridgeDB new UI
       - deploy Circumvention Settings changes for snowflake in TM
       - deploy telegram support for dynamic bridges API
       - review arti proposal for pluggable transports (arti!686)
   Next week:
       - deploy rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-08-25
   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
		- [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
		- [Coding] WebTunnel PT

   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)
		- [Coding] WebTunnel PT(https://gitlab.torproject.org/shelikhoo/webtunnel/-/tree/dev-init)
		- [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F5611FA6A)

Itchy Onion: 2022-08-25
    Last week:
        - Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebase upstream, change timeout in snowflake library used, add more logging ) and talked to Cecylia about it
        - 
    This week:
        - Continue working on RACE 2.2.x
        - RACE T&E meeting
        - Review !98 (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/98)
    Next week:
			- RACE 2.2.x 

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