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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-06-09



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-09-15.59.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 June 16nd 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 ==

    * anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net

== Discussion ==

    * Add an alert for dynamic bridges healthness(src Shell)
    * Internet filtering in Canada: \R\o\g\e\r\s' NHL blocking order (src Shell)         * https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-TPEqjeU
        * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31677867
        * cecylia, itchy: reproducible?
    * Request for review: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac/-/issues/40001#note_2809890

    * Need comments in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82 (add PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT)

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==


== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23
        * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559
        * 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 2022-06-09
Last week:
    - reviews
    - opened MR for gotapdance library to redirect log output
        - https://github.com/refraction-networking/gotapdance/pull/89/files
    - finished getting conjure registrations working in a local test environment
This week:
    - continued work on conjure PT
    - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-06-09
    Last week:
        - prepared information for snowflake bridge funding report for May 2022
    Next week:
        - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-06-02
    Last week:
            - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
            - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
            - don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96)
            - contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have an old version of obfs4proxy
    Next week:
            - start working on gettor (rdsys#105)

Shelikhoo: 2022-06-09
   Last Week:
     - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) <- awaiting/blocked      - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) <- awaiting/blocked      - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075) (snowflake!95) <- awaiting/blocked         - [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) <- awaiting/blocked          - [Research & Discussion] Discussion about the possibility of adding PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82)         - [Security Research & Analysis] *!#/Confidential/#!* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/84#note_2811303         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: Use systemd unit services to run the daemons https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb-admin/-/merge_requests/7         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: API to update dynamic bridges https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/41
   Next Week:
          - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
          - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)           - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)           - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni result


Itchy Onion: 2022-06-09
    Last week:
        - continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests)
        - ongoing debugging s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker)
    This week:
        - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, there seems to be another issue
        - taking over testing snowflake in s28 because the original group couldn't run snowflake

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