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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-5-12



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-12-15.58.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 May 19th 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 ==

    * Snowflake doesn't work in Russia (connection failure by timeout)
        * there are some anomalies in OONI for RU, but they are not higher than some coutries like CA         * most of snowflake users are comming from Russia, it works at least for some         * stunreachability measurements show 3 (of 12) STUN servers inaccessible in Russia, 2 blocked by Russian ISPs, 1 possibly geoblocking of users in Russia             * https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=RU&test_name=stunreachability&since=2022-02-01&until=2022-05-13&axis_x=measurement_start_day&axis_y=domain         * flakey bridge-stats still show plenty of connections from Russia today         * whoever added this discussion item is not here to supply more details     * Moat gives blocklisted(ru) bridges in Russia (e.g. https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#details/1807BF9A521468998385F179DDBF928D2482A62C)
        * meskio will investigate it

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==

    *

== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship, ACM WWW 2021" on May 19th, 2022
        * https://shhaos.github.io/papers/www21-DoE.pdf
        * 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.

anadahz: 2022-01-27
    Last week:
        - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merge_requests/1

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-05-12
    Last week:
    - work on conjure PT
    - review of Distributed snowflake server support (snowflake!87)
    This week:
    - continue work on conjure PT
    - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
    Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-05-12
    Last week:
        - started to look at OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia
    Next week:
        - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63         - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2797271         - write up observations on OONI stunreachability measurements from Russia
    Help with:

arlolra: 2022-04-07
    Last week:
        - Merged the rest of snowflake !81
    Next week:
      - Get to snowflake-webext #10
    Evergreen:
        - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used
        - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
        https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_2764731
    Help with:
        -

maxb: 2021-09-23
    Last week:
        - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054 re: utls for broker negotiation         - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74
        - Too busy with work :/
    Next week:
        - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper

meskio: 2022-05-12
    Last week:
            - add location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108)
            - use a worker to write telegram metrics (rdsys!39)
            - deploy a test setup for dynamic bridges updates API (rdsys#98)
            - prepare demhack.ru hackathon challenge (team#61)
            - configure our mergerequest assignments bot so cohosh only gets snowflake ones (TriageOps!8)
    Next week:
            - rethink distributor retries to the rdsys backend (rdsys#99)
            - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)

Shelikhoo: 2022-05-12
   Last Week:
     - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)         - [Merge Request Review] Telegram distributor hands both new and old bridges to old accounts (snowflake!37)         - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound (continue)
   Next Week:
          - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
          - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)           - [Research & Coding & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)           - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)

Itchy Onion: 2022-05-12
    Last week:
        - prepared for Georgetown meeting (read code/docs about snowflake)
    This week:
        - audit PI meeting
        - working on the snowflake issues assigned to me
        - review MRs assigned to me

HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16
    This week:
    Last/done:
        Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space
    Next:
        Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain

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