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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
        -
    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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