[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-01

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-01-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Dec 08 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 ==

  * Tor Browser multi-locale
    * TB 12.0 bundles all locales in the installer, this affect gettor
    * the release will happen early next week
  * Reported as offline in metrics, some bridges are online and running Reported as offline in metrics, some bridges are online and running (#112) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
    * they miss the 'running' flag, something is happening in the bridge authority
  * (Re)license webtunnel as MIT license: The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / WebTunnel · GitLab
    * we all agree MIT is a good license of this project
  * webtunnel is waiting for review from the application team to be included in TB alpha
    * Adding Webtunnel Intergration to Tor Browser (!595) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab
    * we'll need small changes in the UI so users can request webtunnel bridges or use the default ones

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

  *

== 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 2022-11-24
  Last week:
      - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
  This week:
      - continue work on conjure client
      - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
      - fixup snowflake!108
  Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-12-01
  Last week:
  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
    - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide
    - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option Use multiple parallel KCP state machines in the server (!119) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  Help with:
    - review of remaining snowflake-server performance improvements
      - Increase clientIDAddrMapCapacity to 98304 (!115) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
      - turbotunnel performance improvements (!118) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab

meskio: 2022-12-01
   Last week:
       - investigate gettor freeze (rdssy#129)
       - add support for multi-locale Tor Browser in gettor (rdsys#136)
       - check the number of migrated bridges to the new obfs4
       - upload a new version of snowlfake proxy docker image
       - document the use of ephemeral ports on the docker image (docker-snowflake-proxy!7)
       - review uTLS fix (snowflake!124)
   Next week:
       - add localization support to rdsys

Shelikhoo: 2022-12-01
   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
    - [Merge Request] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser (Continue)
    - [Merge Request] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1"
   Next Week:
    - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
    - [Coding] More Reliable Raw Log Upload For log collector

Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24
    Last week:
      - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load
      - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results)
    This week:
    - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts)
    - review some MRs

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