[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2023-03-30
Arlo Breault
arlo at torproject.org
Fri Mar 31 03:50:14 UTC 2023
On Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 1:37 p.m. meskio <meskio at torproject.org> wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
>
>
> Here are our meeting logs:
>
>
> http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-03-23-15.58.log.html
>
>
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-03-30-15.58.log.html
> And our meeting pad:
>
> Anti-censorship
> --------------------------------
>
> Next meeting: Thursday, April 6 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 96
> *
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
> * Sponsor 139 <-- hackerncoder, irl, joydeep, meskio,
> emmapeel working on it
> * https://pad.riseup.net/p/sponsor139-meeting-pad
>
> == Announcements ==
>
> == Discussion ==
>
> * merge requests in the snowflake webextension might stay months
> without review
> *
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests
> * should we add it to triage bot? who should be in the
> pool of reviewers?
> * yes, meskio will configure triagebot to auto asign
> reviews to: cohosh, shelikhoo and meskio
>
> * Update on Analysis of speed deficiency of Snowflake in China,
> 2023 Q1
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40251#note_2883879
> * after a lot of research the proposed solution is to
> enable datagram transport on webrtc to deal with the packet loss situation
> * that will convert webrtc into an unreliable channel, and
> snowflake will add reliablity with kcp
>
> == 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 2023-03-30
> Last week:
> - enabled wasm target for rust in tor-browser-build
> -
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40818
> - helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM
> -
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
> - discussed the problem of deciding whether a bridge is blocked or not
> - took a look at memory issues for the Snowflake proxy
> -
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40243
> This week:
> - Lox tor browser integration
> - fix conjure issues found by code audit
> Needs help with:
>
> dcf: 2023-03-30
> Last week:
> - found a bug in snowflake-webext that causes it not to
> report client_ip since June 2022
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/82,
> and made a merge request to fix it
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests/65
> Next week:
> - migrate goptlib to gitlab
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
> (for real)
> - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever
> KCPInErrors is nonzero
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40262#note_2886018
> - parent:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40267
> Help with:
> - review of snowflake-server ListenAndServe error check
> fix
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/143
>
> meskio: 2023-03-30
> Last week:
> - deploy bridgestrap with webtunnel support
> - modify bridgedb to distribute webtunnel bridges on the
> https distributor
> - keep up with the renovate bot and it's merge requests in
> rdsys
> - add an alert for >20% rejecte bridges by bandwidth ratio
> - raise the bandwidth ratio threashold to 0.9 (was 0.75)
> - display the 'blocked in' locations in the bridge status
> page (rdsys!95)
> Next week:
> - AFK time
>
> Shelikhoo: 2023-03-30
> Last Week:
> - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy
> support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
> - [Research] HTTPT Planning
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
> - logcollector alert system
> - Update on Analysis of speed deficiency of Snowflake in
> China, 2023 Q1
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40251#note_2883879
> Next Week:
> - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
> - Try to find a place to host another vantage point
> - container image for webtunnel
> - consider propagating 2FA everywhere, maybe, at the April
> Tor Meeting (
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41083#note_2884138)
> - logcollector altert system
> - webtunnel document for proxy opertaor
>
> onyinyang: 2023-03-30
> Last week:
> - Finished up the handling of changed resources in the Lox library
> - Added some wiki documentation to Lox overview repo:
> https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/lox-overview/-/wikis/home
> - Tried testing changed/gone resources in rdsys (mostly
> familiarizing myself with rdsys code)
> - Considered how to sync Lox bridgetable for each rdsys update of
> new bridges
> This week:
> - Figure out how to test changed/gone resources and ensure the
> rdsys backend api is behaving as expected for handling updates from rdsys
> - Start implementing a function in lox distributor/lox library to
> handle syncing of Lox bridgetable
> Needs help with:
> - Expected behaviour of rdsys on update of
> bridges: e.g., where all changes to bridge descriptors are recorded (i.e.,
> networkstatus-bridges, bridge-descriptors, cached-extrainfo files), which
> of these trigger updates from rdsys,and how _should_ the distributor be
> responding (if it's working as expected)
>
> Itchy Onion: 2023-03-22
> Last week:
> - Closed #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy)
> - Closed #40265 (mac user reporting standalone proxy
> complaning about broker cert)
> - Worked on #40231 (Client sometimes send offer with no
> ICE candidates)
>
> This week:
> - Tested and created a potential broker security issue (#40266)
> - Stil working on #40231 -- validate SDP contains
> candidate at the "/client" and "/answer" endpoints broke almsot all of the
> unit tests
>
>
> hackerncoder: 2023-03-09
> last week:
> Next week:
> - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
> - ooni-exporter web_connectivity
> - work on "bridgetester"?
> - how does Iran block bridges
>
> cece: 2022-12-22
> This week:
> - working on creating a dummy WhatsApp bot
> Next week:
> - My bot is not yet working as expected s? still trying to figure
> that out
> Help with:
> - resources
>
>
>
>
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