[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-07-14

meskio meskio at torproject.org
Thu Jul 14 16:47:06 UTC 2022 

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-14-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:


Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday July 21 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 ==

	* What is the status of adjusting snowflake (pion) DTLS signature to avoid blocking in Russia? (Based on offset of supported_groups extension.)
		* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40030#note_2804998
		* https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/474
		* https://ntc.party/t/webrtc/2174/21
		* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 (generally)
		* shell have produced a TB tgz with a modified snowflake to test
			* https://people.torproject.org/~shelikhoo/dqo8apcai4/tor-browser/tor-browser-11.5a13-linux-x86_64-176893/tor-browser-linux64-11.5a13_en-US.tar.xz
		* shell will post it in nft and tor forum

	* git.torproject.org deprecation
		* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40472
		* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86
		* what do we do with go modules urls using git.torproject.org?
			* we'll need to update the major version of the packages when we change the module name to gitlab.tpo
		* should find a new home for goptlib
			* meskio will check if dcf is ok with moving it to  https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/goptlib
		* commit signing policy https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/8#note_2735441
			* will be discussed in the ticket

	* bridge:// URI proposal and QR codes
		* the current situation of bridge QR codes is messy with different format on different applications
		* there is a proposal of a URI format: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/team/-/wikis/Design-Documents/Bridge-URI-RFC
		* meskio is opening the conversation with the interested parties

== 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 2022-06-30
	Last week:
    - got tor to bootstrap fully with the deployed conjure station and bridge
    - met with CU Boulder team to discuss conjure rollout plan
	This week:
    - follow up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the station and bridge
    - 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
	Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
			- commented on STATUS VERSION proposal and proposed some text https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63#note_2817321
			- commented on Snowflake user estimates vis-à-vis Tor Metrics https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40047#note_2817372 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40057#note_2818588
    Next week:
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-07-14
   Last week:
       - provide dummy bridges if not domain fronted moat request (bridgedb!41)
       - update PT SPEC status version on dfc comments (torspec!63)
       - plan migration away from git.tpo
       - review bridge:// URI proposal
       - start a conversation about bridge:// URI and QR codes with interested apps
   Next week:
       - make gettor-rdsys organize archive content in foders

Shelikhoo: 2022-07-14
   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
		- [Deployment] Creating a version of Tor Browser with patched Snowflake client that includes supported_groups censorship countermeasure(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/83#note_2820655)
   Next Week:
		- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
		- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder 
		- [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni
		- [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)
result

Itchy Onion: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81
        - taking over part of testing snowflake
    This week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, fixing a leaking file descriptor issue
        - taking over part of testing snowflake







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