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Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-25-15.58.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Subject: Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-08-25
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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 1 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: 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 ==
* There will not be a meeting Sept 15th
== Discussion ==
* Update on the manifest V3 situation for Snowflake webextensions and possible solutions
* Migrate to Manifest V3 (#29) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake WebExtension · GitLab
* 1207214 - chromium - An open-source project to help move the web forward. - Monorail
* manifest V3 doesn't allow to run webrtc in background
* chromium is planning to deprecate v2 begining 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: Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24 (#40024) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / censorship-analysis · GitLab
* we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure ad domian front
* the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479
(New)
* Reading group suggestion
* "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel"
* 6 pages
* An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
* PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938
* new version of BridgeDB and rdsys
* a facelift of bridges.torproject.org
* svg images and translations are broken but working on it
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
* We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8
* An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
* 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: 2022-08-25
Last week:
- documented re-block of www.torproject.org in Russia [Russia] Some ISPs are blocking Tor (#40050) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Support · 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: 2022-08-25
Last week:
- release BridgeDB 0.14
- release rdsys 0.3
- deploy BridgeDB new UI
- deploy Circumvention Settings changes for snowflake in TM
- deploy telegram support for dynamic bridges API
- review arti proposal for pluggable transports (arti!686)
Next week:
- deploy rdsys-gettor
Shelikhoo: 2022-08-25
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
- [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
- [Coding] WebTunnel PT
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] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
- [Coding] WebTunnel PT(Files · dev-init · shelikhoo / WebTunnel · GitLab)
- [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F5611FA6A)
Itchy Onion: 2022-08-25
Last week:
- Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebase upstream, change timeout in snowflake library used, add more logging ) and talked to Cecylia about it
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This week:
- Continue working on 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)
Next week:
- RACE 2.2.x
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