[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-11-03

Shelikhoo shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Nov 3 16:49:11 UTC 2022


Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-11-03-15.58.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
--------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday Nov 10 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 the 
Tor Project and Tor community.

== 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 ==

     * Lantern and snowflake
         * lantern is working on a p2p volunteer proxy system similar to 
snowflake
         * a highly concurrent client (capable of managing many 
simultaneous peer connections) that could do N:M multiplexing between 
downstream and upstream connections
         * very observable so that it could send lots of status 
information to the UI
     * Distributed Snowflake Server Support will be included in Tor 
Browser Testing Channel(Alpha) Soon: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/571
     * snowflake-01 got 20% increase of usage the last 24h, after being 
stable for few weeks
     * PT args size issue: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/104

== 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 2022-11-03
     Last week:
         - set conjure/tapdance assets directory to pt dir (conjure#11)
         - reviewed and merge fixed to right-adjusted langs 
(snowflake-webext#64)
         - fixed webext and badge build to only include 90%+ complete 
locales (snowflake-webext#62)
         - more progress on mozilla mv3 prep
         - discovered problem with webext translations (snowflake-webext#66)
         - reviewed and merged fix to close stale 0 byte transfer 
connections (snowflake-webext!54)
         - reviewed webext performance improvements (snowflake-webext!39)
     This week:
         - website/extension release (have to do extension translations 
by hand)
         - try again to reach out to conjure developers
         - start working on salmon
     Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-11-03
     Last week:
         - opened an issue to abbreviate `ice` specifications in 
snowflake bridge lines 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40226
         - contributed information about snowflake usage and Tor Metrics 
graphs 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/analysis/-/issues/40013
         - did some review of the presentation of right-to-left 
languages in the snowflake webext 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests/51
     Next week:
         - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122
         - migrate goptlib to gitlab 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
         - try Conjure PT development version 
https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
         - break up snowflake-server performance improvements into 
separate merge requests 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/100
         - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge 
installation guide
     Help with:

meskio: 2022-11-03
    Last week:
        - gettor email loop fix (rdsys#133)
        - gettor imap reconnection fixes (rdsys#134)
        - open a dicussion about PT arg passing (team#104)
        - send a tor-relays obfs4proxy upgrade reminder
        - review outreachy merge requests in rdsys
    Next week:
        - obfs4proxy 0.0.14 in Tor Browser

Shelikhoo: 2022-11-03
    Last Week:
         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to 
snowflake (snowflake!64)
         - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake 
Support
         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result 
Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
         - [Research] HTTPT Planning 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
         - Rollout distributed snowflake (include definition of 
secondary bridge on broker) 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40225
         - Rollout distributed snowflake (get bridgeline into tor 
browser) 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/571
    Next Week:
         - [Research] WebTunnel Planning (Continue)
         - [Research] Fix vantage point summary upload in China
         - Release New version of Snowflake WebExt
      - [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and 
rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40036 
(Continue)
      - Finish all the reviews

Itchy Onion: 2022-11-03
     Last week:
         - Increase the number of snowflake proxies spawned in RACE and 
ran it against the CI test. I was able to pass every time (6 times in 
total). But since Tuesday I've been having trouble starting a new 
deployment with Rib. I've been in talk with TwoSix but so far nothing 
has helped.
     This week:
         - Fixed the Rib issue. Now snowflake passes CI tests 100%.


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