Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-11-10-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday Nov 17 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 the Tor Project and Tor community.
== 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 ==
* spike of obfs4 usage in china
* Users – Tor Metrics
* can the change to use obfs4 by default in CN be part of that spike? Do obfs4 settings bridges work better in china and hong knog? (#99) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
* Connection throttling in Uzbekistan since 2022-11-04?
* Частичные и полные блокировки сервисов Twitter, Tik-Tok, ВКонтакте, Skype в Узбекистане - #35 by TheRambotnik - Uzbekistan - NTC
* "we see some kind of bandwith limitations with transfering of big files in MS365 services (for example - letters in outlook without attachments receiving without problems, but if there’s some file attached - time to loading this letter increasing dramatically; same situation with Sharepoint’s instances - data in web-version of Office365 loads correctly and fast, but if we start to use desktop apps (word, excel, PBI, etc.), which retrieving information from MS servers, time to loading increasing dramatically, no matter of file size)."
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study" on Dec 1
* Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study - NDSS Symposium
* https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/dnspriv21-02-paper.pdf
* 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 2022-11-10
Last week:
- reviewed and merged snowflake-webext!56
- reviewed and merged snowflake-webext!59
- continued work to fix translations
- reached out to conjure researchers about scaling issues
- started reading up on reputation-based bridge distribution again
This week:
- website/extension release (blocked on !62)
- continue work on conjure client
- more work on reputation-based bridge dist
Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-11-10
Last week:
- investigated the cause of last week's ~doubling of snowflake-01 bandwidth; seems to have been the gradual release of a version of Orbot with uTLS support for snowflake Orbot 16.6.3-RC-1-tor.0.4.7.10. (cf262eb3) · Commits · The Tor Project / Network Health / Metrics / Timeline · GitLab
- helped review styling changes in snowflake webextension fix: don't play checkbox transitions on popup open (!32) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake WebExtension · GitLab
- posted guides on how to test the snowflake-02 bridge Deploy Secondary Bridge's definition on Snowflake Broker (#40212) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- more review of the presentation of right-to-left languages in the snowflake webextension right-align text if language is arabic or farsi (!51) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake WebExtension · GitLab
- opened an issue for snowflake proxy failing to scrub IPv6 addresses from log when URL-encoded Proxy log scrubbing misses URL-encoded IPv6 addresses (#40229) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
Next week:
- disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 Set up a second snowflake bridge site (#40122) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- 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
- break up snowflake-server performance improvements into separate merge requests Draft: Server performance improvements (!100) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide
Help with:
meskio: 2022-11-10
Last week:
- obfs4proxy 0.0.14 in Tor Browser
- prepare SOTO 2022 presentation
- update the list of blocked bridges in RU
- change gettor silence alert to 6h
- brainstorm on bandwith testing for bridges (onbasca#130)
- fix sqlinjections on onionsproutsbot (OnionSproutsBot!22)
Next week:
- check if we are distributing blocked bridges in moat (rdsys#80)
Shelikhoo: 2022-11-10
Last Week:
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- [Research] HTTPT Planning Add HTTPT as a pluggable transport to Tor Browser (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / HTTPT · GitLab
- [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4 (#40036) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab (Continue)
- [Merge Request] Add Version Output Support to Snowflake(This also shows utls client hello names) Add Version Output Support to Snowflake (!111) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- Reviewed a lots of merge request
Next Week:
- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
- [Research] Fix vantage point summary upload in China
- Release new version of Snowflake WebExt
- [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4 (#40036) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab (Continue)
- Finish all the reviews
Itchy Onion: 2022-11-10
Last week:
- Fixed the Rib issue. Now snowflake passes CI tests 100%.
- attending (parts of) RACE PI meeting remotely.
This week:
- some logging improvements Proxy logging improvements (!110) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- debug RACE tests errors from stress tests
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