[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-26

Shelikhoo shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu May 26 17:06:36 UTC 2022


Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
--------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday June 3rd 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 ==

     * enforce 2FA in gitlab commit access accounts?
         * yes, let's do that
         * meskio will contact the people that doesn't have 2FA to see 
if they can get it set up
     * go 1.18 & snowflake
         * CI will be updated to cover go 1.18
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40464

== Actions ==

     * Send a WireGuard public key to dcf if you want shell access to 
the snowflake-02 bridge
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2805956
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Bridge-Survival-Guide#snowflake-02-crusty

== 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 2022-05-26
Last week:
     - bumped version of pion/webrtc and pion/dtls in snowflake and tor 
browser
         - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/90
         - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/461
     - updated changelog for snowflake library v2.2.0
         - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/91
     - worked a bit on snowflake paper
     - helped itchy with #40142
This week:
     - continued work on conjure PT
     - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-05-25 (will miss 2022-05-26 meeting)
     Last week:
         - sent follow-up to stunprotocol.org mailing list to see if 
resolving to localhost in RU and UA is expected 
https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/stunprotocol/20220519170106.tz2ylxws6ygfjgm7%40bamsoftware.com
         - set up WireGuard access control for snowflake-02 bridge site 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2805956
     Next week:
         - look at STATUS VERSION proposal 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
         - make user accounts for snowflake-02 bridge site
     Help with:

meskio: 2022-05-26
     Last week:
             - distributor retries to rdsys backend (rdsys#99)
             - String method to snowflake events (snowflake!89)
             - run bridgestrap tests in the CI (bridgestrap#35)
             - fix problems with bridgestrap after bullseye upgrade 
(bridgestrap#34)
             - upload docker images for the new version of snowflake-proxy
             - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
     Next week:
             - start working on gettor (rdsys#105)
             - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
             - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)

Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26
    Last Week:
      - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support 
(snowflake!87)
      - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) 
(snowflake-webext!29)
         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to 
snowflake (snowflake!64)
         - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control 
Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result 
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
         - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to 
Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked
    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)
           - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake 
churn 
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)

Itchy Onion: 2022-05-26
     Last week:
         - work on the snowflake issues assigned to me (!84, !88)
         - review MRs assigned to me
     This week:
         - work on s28 issue 81 (broker crashes under load)

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:
         -

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

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

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
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