[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-07-21
Shelikhoo
shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Jul 21 17:32:42 UTC 2022
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-21-15.59.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 4 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 ==
* logcollector redeployment finished, project moved to team
space(src shell)
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/70
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector-admin/-/issues/3
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40161
(Private)
* roskomanzor has lifted the blockade on torproject.org website, no
on the network
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2823017
== 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
*
https://ntc.party/t/testing-invitation-for-tor-browser-with-supported-groups-patch-countermeasure-in-snowflake-to-evade-censorship-observed-in-russia/2837
* (Not working???)
* >>> Request a packet capture
*
https://forum.torproject.net/t/testing-invitation-for-tor-browser-with-supported-groups-patch-countermeasure-in-snowflake-to-evade-censorship-observed-in-russia/4029
* (No reply #~#)
* Bug fix release for Snowflake necessary(src shell)
* Semver? 0.6.1, is cherry-pick necessary?
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/45
*
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests/40
* >>> cherry-pick if easy, and then release bug fix release
== 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:
- disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
Help with:
meskio: 2022-07-21
Last week:
- use the same bucket on gettor-rdsys archive.org for the
existence file (rdsys!44)
- use a folder per flatform on gettor-rdsys gdrive (rdsys!45)
- request feedback on bridge URIs and QR codes
- review code cleanups on snowflake webextension
(webextension!36 !37)
- review connection assist feedback (support#40086)
- help on bridgedb lektor migration and broken tests (bridgedb!31)
Next week:
- deploy moat shim-token support
- deploy a testing environment of rdsys-gettor
Shelikhoo: 2022-07-21
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)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control
Connection Forwarder
- [Investigate & Review] Daily number of users helped gone to
zero
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/45#note_2822553)
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
result
Itchy Onion: 2022-07-21
Last week:
- ongoing debugging s28 issues 81 (leaking file descriptor)
This week:
- updating snowflake plugin for RACE 2.2.0
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