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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-12-08



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-08-15.58.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, 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 ==

    * 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 ==

    * Cece is the new Outreachy intern working on Rdsys (adding a new social media platform) until March 5th! Please welcome her to the team!     * No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7
    * Tor Browser 12.0 has the snowflake-02 bridge
        * https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-120/
        * https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/91DA221A149007D0FD9E5515F5786C3DD07E4BB0

== Discussion ==

    * snowflake-02 is live in TB 12
        * not in Orbot yet
        * plan to see how things go in Tor Browser, bring it up with Orbot in sponsor 96 meeting in January 2023
    * make obfs4 distinguishability reports public?
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40007         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40008         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
        * we were waiting for a threshold of 50% of bridges to upgrade
        * some emails to gmail.com in the last batch of notifications bounced (https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2022-December/003519.html)         * we'll send one more batch of notifications, then plan to make public after the break on 2023-01-09
    * does ajax.aspnetcdn.com still work in turkmenistan??
        * it might be working, and we only use it for meek
        * snowflake uses cdn.sstatic.net
        * curl and dig tests are not showing injection for ajax.aspnetcdn.com nor cdn.sstatic.net from outside (https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/80#issuecomment-906533865)
    * rwails and NRL working on a new pluggable transport
        * any compatibility issues between C-tor and Arti? probably not.
        * how to run a PT in arti: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/issues/333

== Actions ==


== Interesting links ==

    * https://ntc.party/t/ajax-aspnetcdn-com/3571
        * Reported block of ajax.aspnetcdn.com in Russia, by TSPU, since mid-November?         * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=web_connectivity&domain=ajax.aspnetcdn.com&since=2022-11-07&until=2022-12-07&axis_x=measurement_start_day

== 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 2022-11-24
    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: 2022-12-08
    Last week:
        - disabled non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122         - merged some snowflake-server performance improvements, thanks itchyonion             - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/115             - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/118         - asked to have snowflake-01's other IP addresses excepted in DDoS mitigation scripts https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40223#note_2859420
    Next week:
        - performance tuning on snowflake-02 bridge
        - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public
            - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4/-/issues/40007             - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91         - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide         - have snowflake-02's outgoing IP address added to DDoS mitigation scripts         - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/119         - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122         - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-12-08
   Last week:
       - update gettor/onionsproutsbot for the Tor Browser release
       - investigate why systemd freezes onionsproutsbot (onionsproutsbot#47)
       - some bridges appear offline in metrics.tpo (team#112)
       - support onbasca attempts to test bridge speed (onbasca#130)
       - onboard our outreachy intern
       - review merge request to use a different network on docker bridge images (docker-obfs4-proxy!10)
   Next week:
       - add localization support to rdsys



Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08
   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 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1         - [Merge Request Done] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser         - [Merge Request Done] 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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