[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-26

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday June 3rd 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 Tor.

== 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 ==

 \* anti\-censorship irc channel: \#tor\-anticensorship @ irc\.oftc\.net

== Discussion ==

 \* enforce 2FA in gitlab commit access accounts?
     \* yes, let's do that
     \* meskio will contact the people that doesn't have 2FA to see if they can get it set up
 \* go 1\.18 & snowflake
     \* CI will be updated to cover go 1\.18
     \* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40464

== Actions ==

 \* Send a WireGuard public key to dcf if you want shell access to the snowflake\-02 bridge
     \* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2805956
     \* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Bridge-Survival-Guide#snowflake-02-crusty

== 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 2022-05-26
Last week:
- bumped version of pion/webrtc and pion/dtls in snowflake and tor browser
- Bump version of pion/webrtc to v3.1.41 (!90) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- Bug 40474: Bump version of pion/webrtc to v3.1.41 (!461) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab
- updated changelog for snowflake library v2.2.0
- Updated ChangeLog for v2.2.0 release (!91) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- worked a bit on snowflake paper
- helped itchy with #40142
This week:
- continued work on conjure PT
- continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-05-25 (will miss 2022-05-26 meeting)
Last week:
- sent follow-up to stunprotocol.org mailing list to see if resolving to localhost in RU and UA is expected https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/stunprotocol/20220519170106.tz2ylxws6ygfjgm7%40bamsoftware.com
- set up WireGuard access control for snowflake-02 bridge site 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
- make user accounts for snowflake-02 bridge site
Help with:

meskio: 2022-05-26
Last week:
- distributor retries to rdsys backend (rdsys#99)
- String method to snowflake events (snowflake!89)
- run bridgestrap tests in the CI (bridgestrap#35)
- fix problems with bridgestrap after bullseye upgrade (bridgestrap#34)
- upload docker images for the new version of snowflake-proxy
- update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
Next week:
- start working on gettor (rdsys#105)
- use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
- update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)

Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26
Last Week:
- [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)
- [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29)
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked
Next Week:
- [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)
- [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (#34075) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab)

Itchy Onion: 2022-05-26
Last week:
- work on the snowflake issues assigned to me (!84, !88)
- review MRs assigned to me
This week:
- work on s28 issue 81 (broker crashes under load)

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:
-

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

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

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

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