Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-21-15.59.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday April 21th 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 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
* Sponsor 96
* Sponsor 96: Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet · The Tor Project · GitLab
== Announcements ==
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== Discussion ==
* Do we have graphs about telegram bridge usage
* irl has some script to generate them
* current telegram bridges are not pressent in metrics.tpo as 'distributor telegram', as they are manually feeded. This will change when we start using rdsys for it.
* Is the reading group reading supposed to be "Web censorship measurements of HTTP/3 over QUIC" https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836 ?
* or the threads Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia · Issue #108 · net4people/bbs · GitHub Ограничение HTTP/3 (QUIC) - Russia - NTC ?
* one of the authors of the paper, Kathrin Elmenhorst, has posted some more recent measurements of HTTP/3 blocking in Russia specifically Broad blocking of HTTP/3 traffic in Russia (AS31213, AS12389) · Issue #4 · kelmenhorst/quic-censorship · GitHub
* we'll read the paper, the threads are for more context
* Snowflake Multi-Server Broker Testing (Distributed Snowflake Server Support (#40129) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab)
* (this is where the client tells the broker&proxy what bridge it wants to use, by putting fingerprint=1234ABCD... on its Bridge line)
* testing is wellcome...
* there are instructions for testing it in the issue
* Report of CDN Block in Turkmenistan(Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24 (#40024) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab)
* cloudflare is being blocked in Turkmenistan
* in Russia they are blocking 2 IPs of cloudflare too, but might be an error of overblocking targeting a single site Не открываются некоторые сайты за Cloudflare CDN - #24 by User69 - Russia - NTC
* shell will talk with fastly and cloudflare to see what they know, and we'll look into setting up a vantage point in TM
* meskio, if you could give rdsys a free software license, i will breathe easier at night: rdsys needs a free software license (#107) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / rdsys · GitLab
* meskio will add 3-BSD in the comming days
* dnstt, next steps
* Add support for dnstt (#40001) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / pluggable transports · GitLab
* the major blocker now is to have support for PT commands over the SOCKS connection
* will require forking the code into tpo
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
* Pluggable Transports April 2022 Meetup - Pluggable Transports
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on Apr/28th/2022
* https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836
* Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia · Issue #108 · net4people/bbs · GitHub
* 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 2022-04-14
Last week:
- moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124)
- merge request: snowflake!85
- bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)
- merge request: snowflake!86
- commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)
- opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474)
- work on conjure test environment setup
This week:
- continued work on conjure PT
- continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-04-21
Last week:
- investigated how Tor Metrics estimates the number of users and asked questions about it [tor-dev] Metrics: Estimating fraction of reported directory-request statistics userstats-bridge-country graph is undercounting users (#40047) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Website · GitLab
- made a graph of Tor users in Russia across all transports [Russia] Some ISPs are blocking Tor (#40050) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Support · GitLab
- wrote feedback on the Def Con submission draft
- installed a second snowflake bridge Set up a second snowflake bridge site (#40122) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
Next week:
- look at STATUS VERSION proposal Add STATUS VERSION message for PT protcol (!63) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Core / Tor Specifications · GitLab
Help with:
agix: 2021-02-10
Last week:
- Continued work on gettor-twitter
Next week:
- Hopefully finish the task
Help with:
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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
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:
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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 
Next week:
- _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper
meskio: 2022-04-21
Last week:
- deploy rdsys 0.2 with many fixes
- update monit configuration to the new snowflake bridge (monit-configuration!2)
- merge moat documentation into rdsys (rdsys!34)
- catch up after a week off
Next week:
- use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to distribute (rdsys#96)
- give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107)
Shelikhoo: 2022-04-21
Last Week:
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
- [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS
- [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription")
- [Discussion+Coding] Support Automatic Bridge Info update(shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#1)
- [Discussion+Coding] Remove Inactive Bridge from Test Result(shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#2)
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment - Dockerlized
- [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker
Next Week:
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
- [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24
Itchy Onion: 2022-04-14
Last week:
- worked on rebasing RACECAR snowflake but didn't finish (3 day week)
- read RACECAR doc
This week:
- debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue
- read snowflake code -- there is going to be a recurring 1:1 meeting between me and Eliana from Georgetown to go over each other's channel code
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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