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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-08-18



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-18-15.58.html <http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html>

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Aug 25 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: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards
    * The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home
    * Past meeting notes can be found at:
        * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/
    * Tickets that need reviews:  from sponsors we are working on:
        * All needs review tickets:
            * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
        * Sponsor 28
            * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10             * 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
        * Sponsor 96
            * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

== Announcements ==

    *

== Discussion ==

(New)
    * Think a new name for HTTPT PT?
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/6
        * we'll rename it to webtunnel

    * Update on the manifest V3 situation for Snowflake webextensions and possible solutions         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/29
        * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1207214
        * manifest V3 doesn't allow to run webrtc in background
        * chromium is planning to deprecate v2 beggining 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: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024
        * request users to submit log from Tor Browser
    *
== Actions ==


== Interesting links ==


== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "" on
        *
        * 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 2022-08-18
    Last week:
    - Followed up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the conjure station and bridge
    - Worked on Snowflake webextension V3 manifest update
    - FOCI townhall and HoTFOCI
    This week:
    - a few quality of life conjure issues
        - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/?sort=updated_desc&state=opened&assignee_username%5B%5D=cohosh&first_page_size=20     - 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: 2022-08-18
    Last week:
        - updated graphs of users in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2826459         - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-costs/diff?version_id=fba86f8f84c927da276b4a4256b628e66aaef689         - talked to people at the FOCI townhall and HotFOCI (https://hotfoci.org/). gave people references on:             - blockpage injection in China: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40026 http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-13-15.59.log.html#l-134             - running a bridge: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/             - RACECAR and obfs5: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/30716#note_2602869
    Next week:
        - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
        - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-08-18
   Last week:
       - prepare bridgedb 0.14 release
       - fight with bridgedb tests that don't want to pass
       - prepare a deployment of rdsys-gettor
       - modify circumvention settings map to support hardcoded bridgelines
       - prepare changes to use azure for snowflake in turkmenistan
   Next week:
       - deploy moat shim-token support
       - deploy rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-08-18
   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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1         - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1         - [Deployment] Enable unprivilaged user namespace support on probetelemetry-01@ for systemd user unit isolation https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40855
   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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1
        - [Research] HTTPT Planning(Continue)
        - [Coding] HTTPT PT

Itchy Onion: 2022-08-18
    Last week:
        - Talked to Eliana from Georgetown on the leaking file descriptor issue fix
        - RACE 2.2.X results came back on Friday, didn't pass the CI test
    This week:
        - Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebasing upstream, changing timeout in snowflake library used) and talked to Cecylia about it (can you mention here what are those few things? --gaba)
    Next week:
        - Continue working on RACE 2.2.X (add more error logging in the plugin code to hopefully pinpoint at which point messages are being dropped)



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