[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-03-17

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-17-15.59.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday March 24th 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 checkin 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: Development · Boards · Anti-censorship · GitLab
  * The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
    * Home · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
  * Past meeting notes can be found at:
    * The tor-project Archives
  * Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors we are working on:
    * All needs review tickets: Merge requests · Anti-censorship · GitLab
    * Sponsor 30
      * Sponsor 30 - Objective 2.1 · The Tor Project · GitLab
      * Sponsor 30 - Objective 2.2 · The Tor Project · GitLab
      * Sponsor 30 - Objective 2.3 · The Tor Project · GitLab
      * Sponsor 30 - Objective 2.4 · The Tor Project · GitLab
    * Sponsor 28
      * must-do tickets: Sponsor 28: Reliable Anonymous Communication Evading Censors and Repressors (RACECAR) · The Tor Project · GitLab
      * possible tickets: Issues · The Tor Project · GitLab

== Announcements ==

  * We have a new developer in the Anti Censorship team: Itchy Onion

== Discussion ==

  * dnstt bridges
    * the guardian project is working on dnstt for iOS/android
    * Add new experimental pluggable transport: DNSTT · tladesignz/IPtProxy@e2ce9d1 · GitHub
    * can we add support for dnstt into rdsys/bridgedb and the rest of tor infra?
    * anadahz will create an issue to work on it
    * setup instructions: Riseup Pad

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

  * How to circumvent state internet censorship in Russia | Science | In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 09.03.2022

== 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.

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: Increase number of cycles for felix bridges (!1) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / monit-configuration · GitLab

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-03-17 (here but distracted)
Last week:
    - worked on setting up a dev environment for conjure
        - Environment Setup · refraction-networking/conjure Wiki · GitHub
    - some reviews
This week:
    - continued work on conjure PT
    - continue to monitor snowflake broker stats
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-03-17 (will miss 2022-03-17 meeting)
  Last week:
    - restarted snowflake broker and bridge for Dirty Pipe vulnerability Reboot broker and bridge for Dirty Pipe kernel vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847) (#40109) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
    - moved snowflake bridge to an interim faster server Move bridge to a temporary faster server (#40110) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
    - wrote OTF rapid response grant for snowflake bridge funding
    - helped coordinate a more permanent faster server for the snowflake bridge
    - wrote a summary of last week's discussion about multi-bridge snowflake Prepare all pieces of the snowflake pipeline for a second snowflake bridge (#28651) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
    - snowflake CDN bookkeeping Snowflake costs · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
    - reviewed merge request for forwarding bridge fingerprint to the broker Forward bridge fingerprint (!81) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
    - made a patch for debugging standalone proxy that stops working No connections (there are 0 connections) after running for for a few days (#40114) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
    - opened an issue to have pt.Log scrubbed in snowflake-client Scrub pt.Log calls like other logs (#40115) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  Next week:
  Help with:

agix: 2021-02-10
  Last week:
    - Continued work on gettor-twitter
    Next week:
    - Hopefully finish the task
  Help with:
    -

arlolra: 2022-03-10
  Last week:
    - Pass bridge fingerprint in SOCKS param to the broker
      Forward bridge fingerprint (!81) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  Next week:
    - Revise !81
    - Start on the next piece of the multiple bridge design
  Evergreen:
    - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used
    - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
    GitHub - pion/dtls: DTLS 1.2 Server/Client implementation for Go
    Make Snowflake's DTLS fingerprint more similar to popular WebRTC implementations (#40014) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  Help with:
    -

maxb: 2021-09-23
  Last week:
    - Worked on uTLS for broker negotiation (#40054) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab re: utls for broker negotiation
    - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper feat: sketch out utls http.RoundTripper by bassosimone · Pull Request #74 · refraction-networking/utls · GitHub
    - Too busy with work :confused:
  Next week:
    - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper

meskio: 2022-03-17
  Last week:
      - add some untilisting mechanism to circumvention settings (rdsys#79)
      - be able to configure the proxy type in snowflake library (snowflake#40104)
      - update obfs4 bridge dockerfile to use backports (docker-obfs4-bridge!9)
      - review uTLS merge request (snowflake!76)
  Next week:
      - deploy circumvention settings (bridgedb#40025)
      - integrate telegram bot into rdsys (rdsys#77)

Shelikhoo: 2022-03-10
   Last Week:
       - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
       - [Merge Request Awaiting] uTLS for broker negotiation (Updated)
      - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
      - [Deployment] Vantage Point in Vinnica, Ukraine
      - [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
      - [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS
   Next Week:
       - [Coding] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) - built-in DNS

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

hanneloresx: 2021-3-4
  Last week:
    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14
  Next week:
    - Finish bridgestrap #14
    - Find new issue to work on
  Help with:
    -

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