[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-05

Thu May 5 16:39:21 UTC 2022

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-05-15.58.html 

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday May 12th 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 ==

	* the bridges telegram bot is now in rdsys

== Discussion ==

	* Distributed Snowflake Server Support
		* there is a merge request now: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/87
		* review is wellcome, there are mayor changes
	* RKS hackathon
		* RKS is organizing a hackathon: demhack.ru and asked TPO to be part of it
		* we are proposing whatsapp gettor+bridgesbot
		* they think it might be to small, we can extend it
		* another idea is to do it in iMessage
		* we'll discuss it in a ticket
		* due to monday

== Actions ==

	* 

== Interesting links ==

	* 

== Reading group ==

	* We will discuss "Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship, ACM WWW 2021" on May 19th, 2022
		* https://shhaos.github.io/papers/www21-DoE.pdf  
		* 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 2022-04-14
Last week:
    - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124)
        - merge request: snowflake!85
    - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)
        - merge request: snowflake!86
    - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)
    - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474)
    - work on conjure test environment setup
This week:
    - continue work on conjure PT
    - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-05-01 (will be absent 2022-05-05)
	Last week:
		- opened an issue for confusing client NAT check log messages https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40134
		- filed an OONI issue to get access to stunreachability measurements, in order to get more insignt into torsf (snowflake) failures https://github.com/ooni/backend/issues/590
	Next week:
		- look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
		- set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2797271
	Help with:

arlolra: 2022-04-07
	Last week:
		- Merged the rest of snowflake !81
	Next week:
	  - Get to snowflake-webext #10
	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: 2022-05-05
	Last week:
			- deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#111)
			- advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment (team#78)
			- add onionsproutsbot to transifex (l10n#40070)
			- add the location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108)
			- API for dynamic bridges in telegram (rdsys#98)
			- review bridedb.tpo/info fixes (bridgedb!39)
	Next week:
			- bridges sharing the same IP should use the same distributor (rdsys#106)
			- finish and deploy the changes into circumvention settings API (rdsys#108)

Shelikhoo: 2022-05-05
   Last Week:
>>>  - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)  <<<

		- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
		- [Merge Request Review] Telegram distributor hands both new and old bridges to old accounts(snowflake!37)
		- [Merge Request Review] Don't mix up old and new telegram accounts(snowflake!38)
		- [Merge Request Review] Remove smallerRichard default bridge
		- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
		- [Coding & Deployment] Include frontdisk testing targets in probe tests (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#4)
		- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
		- [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound
   Next Week:
		  - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
		  - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
		  - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)

Itchy Onion: 2022-05-05
    Last week:
        - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with snowflake rebasing)
    This week:
        - prepare Georgetown meeting (read more docs and code)
        - starting to look at new RACE version (2.1.1)

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

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