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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-07-21



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-21-15.59.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 4 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 ==

    * logcollector redeployment finished, project moved to team space(src shell)         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/70         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector-admin/-/issues/3

    * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40161 (Private)

    * roskomanzor has lifted the blockade on torproject.org website, no on the network         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2823017

== Discussion ==

    * What is the status of adjusting snowflake (pion) DTLS signature to avoid blocking in Russia? (Based on offset of supported_groups extension.)         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40030#note_2804998
        * https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/474
        * https://ntc.party/t/webrtc/2174/21
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 (generally)
        * shell have produced a TB tgz with a modified snowflake to test
            * https://people.torproject.org/~shelikhoo/dqo8apcai4/tor-browser/tor-browser-11.5a13-linux-x86_64-176893/tor-browser-linux64-11.5a13_en-US.tar.xz
        * shell will post it in nft and tor forum
            * https://ntc.party/t/testing-invitation-for-tor-browser-with-supported-groups-patch-countermeasure-in-snowflake-to-evade-censorship-observed-in-russia/2837
            * (Not working???)
            * >>> Request a packet capture
            * https://forum.torproject.net/t/testing-invitation-for-tor-browser-with-supported-groups-patch-countermeasure-in-snowflake-to-evade-censorship-observed-in-russia/4029
            * (No reply #~#)

    * Bug fix release for Snowflake necessary(src shell)
        * Semver? 0.6.1, is cherry-pick necessary?
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/45         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/merge_requests/40
        * >>> cherry-pick if easy, and then release bug fix release

== 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 2022-06-30
    Last week:
    - got tor to bootstrap fully with the deployed conjure station and bridge
    - met with CU Boulder team to discuss conjure rollout plan
    This week:
    - follow up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the station and bridge
    - 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
    Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-07-07
    Last week:
            - commented on STATUS VERSION proposal and proposed some text https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63#note_2817321             - commented on Snowflake user estimates vis-à-vis Tor Metrics https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40047#note_2817372 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40057#note_2818588
    Next week:
        - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-07-21
   Last week:
       - use the same bucket on gettor-rdsys archive.org for the existence file (rdsys!44)
       - use a folder per flatform on gettor-rdsys gdrive (rdsys!45)
       - request feedback on bridge URIs and QR codes
       - review code cleanups on snowflake webextension (webextension!36 !37)
       - review connection assist feedback (support#40086)
       - help on bridgedb lektor migration and broken tests (bridgedb!31)
   Next week:
       - deploy moat shim-token support
       - deploy a testing environment of rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-07-21
   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         - [Deployment] Creating a version of Tor Browser with patched Snowflake client that includes supported_groups censorship countermeasure(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/83#note_2820655)         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder         - [Investigate & Review] Daily number of users helped gone to zero (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/45#note_2822553)
   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
result

Itchy Onion: 2022-07-21
    Last week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81 (leaking file descriptor)
    This week:
        - updating snowflake plugin for RACE 2.2.0




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