Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-09-01-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 8 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 ==
\* There will not be a meeting Sept 15th
\* Conjure PT ready to try out: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000240.html
== Discussion ==
\* Snowflake in Turkmenistan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
\* we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure and domain front
\* the changes seems to work for AGTS \(one ISP\) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479
\* TorCloak Integration with BridgeDB
\* We are currently developing a new Tor Pluggable Transport called TorCloak\. TorCloak's basic mechanism is to conceale Tor traffic on the video streams of WebRTC\-based video conferencing services\.
\* We are now coming to a stage on our project in which we are discussing solutions to disseminate our bridges\.
\* Sent a draft of the solution via the mailing list\.
\* https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000239.html
\* Get everyone's opinion and feedback on the solution
(New)
* Next Step for WebTunnel
* Files · 7e7bebb499a46345b9adf030666698427965e953 · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / WebTunnel · GitLab
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
\* We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin\-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8
\* https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938
\* PDF available from Sci\-Hub, DOI 10\.1109/MILCOM47813\.2019\.9020938
\* 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 2022-08-25
Last week:
- Worked on reproducible builds of Conjure (conjure#14)
- helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM
This week:
- Snowflake web extension v3 manifest
- polish the badge-helper extension more
- email tor-dev and anti-censorship team about the current plan
- 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: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- worked at understanding the nature of the changes in obfs4proxy-0.0.12
- identified the cause of the probabilistic (fails 3/4 of the time) failures in Tor Browser's new obfs4proxy client has compatibility issues with old obfs4proxy bridges (#40804) · Issues · The Tor Project / Applications / Tor Browser · GitLab
- found a way to remotely detect old versions https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
- replied to question about TorCloak integration with Tor bridge distribution [anti-censorship-team] TorCloak Pluggable Transport
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
- try Conjure PT development version [tor-dev] Introducing a Conjure PT for Tor
Help with:
meskio: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- continue with rdsys-gettor deployment (distributor configured and working, fixes on TPA side, ...)
- deploy BridgeDB css/svg fixes
- review webtunnel implementation (webtunnel!1)
- review webextension merge requests (webextension!39)
- review new snowflake.torproject.org page
- scann obfs4 bridges for pre-0.0.12 versions
Next week:
- deploy rdsys-gettor
- fix language issues in BridgeDB (bridgedb#40056)
Shelikhoo: 2022-09-01
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)
- [Merged] 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
- [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
- [Coding] WebTunnel PT
- [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F5611FA6A)
- [Deployment] Raw Probe Log Data Collection
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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1
\- \[Research\] WebTunnel Planning\(Continue\)
\- \[Research\] Log Collector Speed Measurement
Itchy Onion: 2022-09-01
Last week:
- RACE 2.2.x
- RACE T&E meeting
- Review !98 (Use Pion's Setting Engine to reduce Multicast DNS noise (!98) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab)
This week:
- Researched and discussed the implication of disabling mdns with the team
- Verify !98
- Will spend some time on RACE 2.2.x either today or tomorrow
Next week: