[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-03-31
meskio
meskio at torproject.org
Thu Mar 31 16:32:33 UTC 2022
Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
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 April 7th 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 checkin 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 ==
* merge requests get assigned automatically for snowflake, rdsys and bridgedb repos by a bot
* the hardware for the new snowflake bridge is expected to arrive tomorrow
* dcf will install it
* the telegram bot is in process to get integrated into rdsys
* the remining question is how to keep the bridge quality
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/101
* the hosting Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS thing is progressing right now
* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40661#note_2792420
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
*
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Balboa: Bobbing and Weaving around Network Censorship" on April 7
* https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec21-rosen.pdf
* https://censorbib.nymity.ch/#Rosen2021a
* 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.
anadahz: 2022-01-27
Last week:
- Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merge_requests/1
cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-03-31
Last week:
- onboarded itchy onion onto s28 tasks
- reviews
- work on conjure PT
This week:
- continued work on conjure PT
- continue to monitor snowflake broker stats
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-03-31
Last week:
- further review of forward-fingerprint patch https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/81#note_2791005
- posted summary of performance observations on the interim snowflake bridge and a curious phenomenon with descriptors not all being published https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40110#note_2791036
- corresponded on OTF rapid response grant application for snowflake bridge funding
- sent some information to OONI about snowflake for their torsf test
Next week:
- approve last piece of forward-fingerprint patch https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/81
- install snowflake bridge on linus's new server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40111
- install snowflake bridge on another new server, with a different bridge fingerprint, so it is ready for multiple-bridge testing https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/28651
Help with:
agix: 2021-02-10
Last week:
- Continued work on gettor-twitter
Next week:
- Hopefully finish the task
Help with:
-
arlolra: 2022-03-31
Last week:
- Revised !81 and merged some of it
Next week:
-
Evergreen:
- Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used
- Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_2764731
Help with:
-
maxb: 2021-09-23
Last week:
- Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054 re: utls for broker negotiation
- Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74
- Too busy with work :/
Next week:
- _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper
meskio: 2022-03-31
Last week:
- telegram bot into rdsys (rdsys#77)
- circumvention settings gives the full list of default bridges now (rdsys#100)
- document settings and telegram distributors in bridges.tpo/info (bridgedb#40046)
- select new bridges for probetest (team#77)
- review docker snowflake-proxy using go 1.18 (docker-snowflake-proxy!5)
- review lektor based bridgedb (bridgedb!31)
Next week:
- document circumvention settings API (bridgedb#40043)
- ignore the running flag if all bridges doesn't have it (rdsys#102)
Shelikhoo: 2022-03-31
Last Week:
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
- [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS
- [Discussion]Bridges should report implementation versions of their pluggable transports
- [Coding] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - built-in DNS
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker
- [Merge Request Review] Add a telegram distributor
- [Merge Request Review] The assignments.log is now produced by rdsys
Next Week:
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker(continue)
Itchy Onion: 2022-03-31
Last week:
- onboarding
- s28 virtual site meeting
- worked on a small snowflake MR !83
This week:
- worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/84
- read s28 wikis (finally got all the required access on Tuesday)
- read/experiment with testing snowflake locally
Next week:
- familiarize with the s28 process (build plugin binary, upload it, then test it with Rib)
- familiarize with snowflake codebase (there is another issue assigned to me)
- get better at testing snowflake
Help with:
- likely need help with s28 and testing snowflake locally. Let's see.
HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16
This week:
Last/done:
Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space
Next:
Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain
hanneloresx: 2021-3-4
Last week:
- Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14
Next week:
- Finish bridgestrap #14
- Find new issue to work on
Help with:
-
ln5: 2022-03-24
Last week:
- Received hardware for a new home for snowflake.tpn; discussed OS configuration with dcf in private email
Next week:
- Install Debian 11 on new snowflake.tpn
- Possibly rack new snowflake.tpn, if I can get access and find time to do the transportation
Need help with:
- Input on urgency appreciated, for my planning
- Input on preferred CPU configuration, esp wrt HyperThreading -- lacking input before deployment in data centre, the machine will *not* have HT disabled and CPU bug mitigation will thus have to be carried out by the kernel
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