[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-09

[Shelikhoo]

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-09-15.59.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 June 16nd 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 ==

     * anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net

== Discussion ==

     * Add an alert for dynamic bridges healthness(src Shell)
     * Internet filtering in Canada: \R\o\g\e\r\s' NHL blocking order 
(src Shell)
         * 
https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-TPEqjeU
         * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31677867
         * cecylia, itchy: reproducible?
     * Request for review: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac/-/issues/40001#note_2809890

     * Need comments in 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82 (add 
PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT)

== Actions ==

     *

== Interesting links ==


== Reading group ==

     * We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's 
Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23
         * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559
         * 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 2022-06-09
Last week:
     - reviews
     - opened MR for gotapdance library to redirect log output
         - https://github.com/refraction-networking/gotapdance/pull/89/files
     - finished getting conjure registrations working in a local test 
environment
This week:
     - continued work on conjure PT
     - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-06-09
     Last week:
         - prepared information for snowflake bridge funding report for 
May 2022
     Next week:
         - look at STATUS VERSION proposal 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
     Help with:

meskio: 2022-06-02
     Last week:
             - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
             - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
             - don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96)
             - contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have 
an old version of obfs4proxy
     Next week:
             - start working on gettor (rdsys#105)

Shelikhoo: 2022-06-09
    Last Week:
      - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support 
(snowflake!87) <- awaiting/blocked
      - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) 
(snowflake-webext!29) <- awaiting/blocked
      - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn 
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075) 
(snowflake!95) <- awaiting/blocked
         - [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) <- awaiting/blocked
          - [Research & Discussion] Discussion about the possibility of 
adding PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT 
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82)
         - [Security Research & Analysis] *!#/Confidential/#!* 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/84#note_2811303
         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: Use systemd unit services to 
run the daemons 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb-admin/-/merge_requests/7
         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: API to update dynamic bridges 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/41
    Next Week:
           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result 
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
           - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control 
Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
           - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection 
Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on 
updated ooni result


Itchy Onion: 2022-06-09
     Last week:
         - continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests)
         - ongoing debugging s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker)
     This week:
         - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, there seems to be another issue
         - taking over testing snowflake in s28 because the original 
group couldn't run snowflake
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