[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-07-14

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-14-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday July 21 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: 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 ==

== Discussion ==

  * What is the status of adjusting snowflake (pion) DTLS signature to avoid blocking in Russia? (Based on offset of supported_groups extension.)
    * IRC Tip about Signature used to block Snowflake in Russia, 2022-May-16 (#40030) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab
    * Shuffle Elliptic Curves in ClientHello to circumvent Russian censorship by ValdikSS · Pull Request #474 · pion/dtls · GitHub
    * Проблемы в работе ПО использующего WebRTC - #21 by tango - Russia - NTC
    * [Russia] Some ISPs are blocking Tor (#40050) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Support · GitLab (generally)
    * shell have produced a TB tgz with a modified snowflake to test
      * https://people.torproject.org/~shelikhoo/dqo8apcai4/tor-browser/tor-browser-11.5a13-linux-x86_64-176893/tor-browser-linux64-11.5a13_en-US.tar.xz
    * shell will post it in nft and tor forum

  * git.torproject.org deprecation
    * TPA-RFC-36: establish policy on git repository mirroring, hosting and, ultimately migration from gitolite (#40472) · Issues · The Tor Project / TPA / TPA team · GitLab
    * migrate away from git.torproject.org (#86) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
    * what do we do with go modules urls using git.torproject.org?
      * we'll need to update the major version of the packages when we change the module name to gitlab.tpo
    * should find a new home for goptlib
      * meskio will check if dcf is ok with moving it to Sign in · GitLab
    * commit signing policy Create and document our commit workflow (#8) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
      * will be discussed in the ticket

  * bridge:// URI proposal and QR codes
    * the current situation of bridge QR codes is messy with different format on different applications
    * there is a proposal of a URI format: Bridge URI RFC · Wiki · The Tor Project / Applications / Team · GitLab
    * meskio is opening the conversation with the interested parties

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

== Reading group ==

  * We will discuss "" on
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    * 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 2022-06-30
  Last week:
    - got tor to bootstrap fully with the deployed conjure station and bridge
    - met with CU Boulder team to discuss conjure rollout plan
  This week:
    - follow up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the station and bridge
    - a few quality of life conjure issues
        - Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / conjure · GitLab
    - draft an announcement of conjure for forum and development community mailing lists
  Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
      - commented on STATUS VERSION proposal and proposed some text Add STATUS VERSION message for PT protcol (!63) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Core / Tor Specifications · GitLab
      - commented on Snowflake user estimates vis-à-vis Tor Metrics userstats-bridge-country graph is undercounting users (#40047) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Website · GitLab Snowflake spikes in June 2022 (#40057) · Issues · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Website · GitLab
    Next week:
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-07-14
   Last week:
       - provide dummy bridges if not domain fronted moat request (bridgedb!41)
       - update PT SPEC status version on dfc comments (torspec!63)
       - plan migration away from git.tpo
       - review bridge:// URI proposal
       - start a conversation about bridge:// URI and QR codes with interested apps
   Next week:
       - make gettor-rdsys organize archive content in foders

Shelikhoo: 2022-07-14
   Last Week:
    - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
    - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)
    - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
    - [Deployment] Creating a version of Tor Browser with patched Snowflake client that includes supported_groups censorship countermeasure(Creating a version of Tor Browser with patched Snowflake client that includes supported_groups censorship countermeasure (#83) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab)
   Next Week:
    - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
    - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder
    - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni
    - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)
result

Itchy Onion: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81
        - taking over part of testing snowflake
    This week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, fixing a leaking file descriptor issue
        - taking over part of testing snowflake

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