[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2024-06-27

Shelikhoo shelikhoo at torproject.org
Thu Jun 27 16:57:12 UTC 2024


Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2024/tor-meeting.2024-06-27-16.00.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, July 11 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: onyinyang
^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail)

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)

This week's Facilitator: shelikhoo

== 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 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh
             * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
         * Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it
             * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Sponsor%20150


== Announcements ==

     * No meeting July 4 (Tor's midyear break)

== Discussion ==

     * Snowflake WebExtension for Manifest version 3 is almost done, 
only lacking user info consent support. (shelikhoo)
     * Ongoing censorship events:
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40043 
(Myanmar)
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40044 
(Algeria)
         * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40031 
(Uzbekistan)

== 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): 2024-06-27
     Last week:
         - snowflake-webext updates
         - reviewed mv3 prototype
         - helped onyinyang on rebasing and debugging wasm-bindgen
         - worked on squashing Conjure PT into lyrebird
             - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/lyrebird/-/issues/40015
             - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/42
     This week:
         - take a look at snowflake web and webext translations and best 
practices
         - make changes to Lox encrypted bridge table
             - 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/merge_requests/147
     Needs help with:

dcf: 2024-06-27
     Last week:
         - archived snowflake-webextension-0.8.3 
https://archive.org/details/snowflake-webextension-0.8.3
     Next week:
         - review snowflake unreliable+unordered data channels rev2 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/315
         - 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
         - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker
         - move snowflake-02 to new VM
Help with:
         - tell me when to restart the brokers for 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40349

meskio: 2023-06-27
     Last week:
         - fix a parsing problem for cache-extrainfo when there is 
transport-info, don't reject the PT part of bridges (rdsys#205)
         - sponsor 96 final report
         - debug moat domain front failures
         - add transport-info to the cached-extrainfo spec (torspec!63)
         - report lyrebird version to tor (lyrebird!51)
     Next week:
         - investigate what builtin bridges are offline (team#141)
         - report other PT versions to tor (snowflake, webtunnel)


Shelikhoo: 2024-06-27
     Last Week:
             - Chrome Manifest V3 transition: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/29#note_3035763

                 - Merge request reviews
     Next Week/TODO:
         - Merge request reviews
         - Chrome Manifest V3 transition: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/29#note_3035763

onyinyang: 2023-06-20
     Last week(s):
         - MSR talk
         - Working toward building tor-browser with lox-wasm binary to 
help out with
             integration work as needed: ran into many issues trying to 
do this with Fedora
     Next week:
         - Global Gathering Application
         - Fix Key Rotation MR for hyper v1
         - Working toward building tor-browser with lox-wasm binary to 
help out with
             integration work as needed: resolve build issues on Fedora
         - Work on outstanding milestone issues: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/milestones/1#tab-issues
             - prepare for end to end testing of the Lox system with 
browser integration
         Later:
         - begin implementing some preliminary user feedback mechanism 
to identify bridge blocking based on Vecna's work
         - improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is 
working/valuable
         - sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum

     (long term things were discussed at the meeting!): 
https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep
         - brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of 
bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are 
distributed/use in practice
             Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and 
how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate 
resources to people?
                 1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we 
can already consider?
                     e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges 
sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a 
requesting user's geoip or something?)
                 2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so 
trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access 
to 1)? More? Less?

theodorsm: 2023-06-20
         Last weeks:
             - Writing my thesis
             - Add randomized ClientHello fingerprints to library
         Next weeks:
             - Wait for pion upstream releases
             - Test Snowflake fork with covert-dtls
             - Taking time off (AFK)
         Help with:
             - Test Snowflake fork with covert-dtls



Facilitator Queue:
     onyinyang  meskio shelikhoo
1. First available staff in the Facilitator Queue will be the 
facilitator for the meeting
2. After facilitating the meeting, the facilitator will be moved to the 
tail of the queue

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