Hey everyone!
Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-15-15.59.log.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship team meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday, Dec 15 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 ==
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Our anti-censorship roadmap:
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Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards
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The anti-censorship team’s wiki page:
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https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home
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Past meeting notes can be found at:
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Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors, we are working on:
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All needs review tickets:
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Sponsor 28
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must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10
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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
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Sponsor 96
== Announcements ==
- No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We’ll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7
== Discussion ==
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Is snowflake blocked in russia?
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it doesn’t seem to have much usage there and the vantage point seems to indicate it doesn’t work
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we’ll change circumvention settings to recommend first obfs4 bridges
== Actions ==
- we should investigate if snowflake is blocked in russia (circumvention settings is recommending snowflake in russia, I wonder if we should change that)
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
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We will discuss “” on
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Questions to ask and goals to have:
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What aspects of the paper are questionable?
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Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?
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Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?
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Is there future work that we want to call out in hopes that others will pick it up?
== Updates ==
Name:
This week:
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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
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Last week:
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- wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
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This week:
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- continue work on conjure client
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- more work on reputation-based bridge dist
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- fixup snowflake!108
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Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-12-14
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Last week:
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- made the number of KCP state machines a command-line option and merged it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/119
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- brought the snowflake bridge installation guide up to date with current settings https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Bridge-Installation-Guide?version_id=fb2a23a1e3f890bccf15410386e3b5d5aca08de5
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- deployed current performance settings on snowflake-02 bridge
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- changed srcaddr in extor-static-cookie to a transport option from a command-line option, like in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/extor-static-cookie/-/commit/61e0684e40f84aa57a032e3fa9b80d2d24986bde
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- had the IP addresses of snowflake-02 added to DDoS mitigation scripts https://github.com/steinex/tor-ddos/issues/2 https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-relay-lists/issues/2
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- opened an issue for a duplicate flag name in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40238
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- started an experiment to increase the size of the conntrack table on snowflake-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40239
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Next week:
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- make obfs4 distinguishability reports public
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- migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
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- try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
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Help with:
meskio: 2022-12-15
Last week:
- figure out why onionsproutsbot freezees in our server (onionsproutsbot#47)
- add support for multiple shim-tokens for moat (rdsys#118)
- remove unused DKIM header verification from BridgeDB (bridgedb!51)
- catching up with outreachy duties
Next week: - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11)
- make onionsproutsbot work in systemd (onionsproutsbot#47)
- poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008)
Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08
Last Week:
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- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
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- [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
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- [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
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- [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
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[Merge Request] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector-admin/-/merge_requests/2)
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[Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/merge_requests/3)
Next Week: -
- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15
Last week:
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- worked on RACE performance issue
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[Merge Request Done] “Abbreviate
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list in bridge lines” -
reviewed some MRs
This week:
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- Work on the RACE performance issue
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- [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag
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- Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server
hackerncoder: 2022-12-15
last week/earlier this week:
- worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter
Next week/later this week: - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server
- getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
- work on monitoring bridges health