Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
#tor-meeting: tor anti-censorship meeting <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html>
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Aug 25 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 ==
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== Discussion ==
(New)
* Think a new name for HTTPT PT?
* Come up with a better name for HTTPT? (#6) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / HTTPT · GitLab
* we'll rename it to webtunnel
\* Update on the manifest V3 situation for Snowflake webextensions and possible solutions
\* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/29
\* https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1207214
\* manifest V3 doesn't allow to run webrtc in background
\* chromium is planning to deprecate v2 beggining of next year, it will continue be working on firefox
\* a possible workaround is to open a tab with the badge
\* will ask tor, anti\-censorship mailing list for suggestions
\* Snowflake in Turkmenistan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
\* request users to submit log from Tor Browser
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== 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 2022-08-18
Last week:
- Followed up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the conjure station and bridge
- Worked on Snowflake webextension V3 manifest update
- FOCI townhall and HoTFOCI
This week:
- 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 (are you in contact with comms@ about this? --gaba)
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-08-18
Last week:
- updated graphs of users in Russia [Russia] Some ISPs are blocking Tor (#40050) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Support · GitLab
- snowflake CDN bookkeeping Changes · Snowflake costs · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
- talked to people at the FOCI townhall and HotFOCI (https://hotfoci.org/). gave people references on:
- blockpage injection in China: China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (#40026) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab #tor-meeting log
- running a bridge: Tor Project | Bridge
- RACECAR and obfs5: Sponsor 28: Reliable Anonymous Communication Evading Censors and Repressors (RACECAR) · The Tor Project · GitLab Improve the obfs4 obfuscation protocol (#30716) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / obfs4 · GitLab
Next week:
- disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
- migrate goptlib to gitlab migrate away from git.torproject.org (#86) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
Help with:
meskio: 2022-08-18
Last week:
- prepare bridgedb 0.14 release
- fight with bridgedb tests that don't want to pass
- prepare a deployment of rdsys-gettor
- modify circumvention settings map to support hardcoded bridgelines
- prepare changes to use azure for snowflake in turkmenistan
Next week:
- deploy moat shim-token support
- deploy rdsys-gettor
Shelikhoo: 2022-08-18
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
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Raw Probe Log Data Collection Raw Probe Log Data Collection (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Connectivity Measurement / logcollector · GitLab
- [Research] HTTPT Planning Add HTTPT as a pluggable transport to Tor Browser (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / HTTPT · GitLab
- [Deployment] Enable unprivilaged user namespace support on probetelemetry-01@ for systemd user unit isolation Enable unprivilaged user namespace support on probetelemetry-01@ for systemd user unit isolation (#40855) · Issues · The Tor Project / TPA / TPA team · GitLab
Next Week:
- [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni
- [Research+Coding] Raw Probe Log Data Collection Raw Probe Log Data Collection (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Connectivity Measurement / logcollector · GitLab
- [Research] HTTPT Planning(Continue)
- [Coding] HTTPT PT
Itchy Onion: 2022-08-18
Last week:
- Talked to Eliana from Georgetown on the leaking file descriptor issue fix
- RACE 2.2.X results came back on Friday, didn't pass the CI test
This week:
- Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebasing upstream, changing timeout in snowflake library used) and talked to Cecylia about it (can you mention here what are those few things? --gaba)
Next week:
- Continue working on RACE 2.2.X (add more error logging in the plugin code to hopefully pinpoint at which point messages are being dropped)