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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-26



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-26-16.00.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday June 3rd 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 ==

    * enforce 2FA in gitlab commit access accounts?
        * yes, let's do that
        * meskio will contact the people that doesn't have 2FA to see if they can get it set up
    * go 1.18 & snowflake
        * CI will be updated to cover go 1.18
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40464

== Actions ==

    * Send a WireGuard public key to dcf if you want shell access to the snowflake-02 bridge         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2805956         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guides/Snowflake-Bridge-Survival-Guide#snowflake-02-crusty

== 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 2022-05-26
Last week:
    - bumped version of pion/webrtc and pion/dtls in snowflake and tor browser         - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/90         - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_requests/461
    - updated changelog for snowflake library v2.2.0
        - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/91
    - worked a bit on snowflake paper
    - helped itchy with #40142
This week:
    - continued work on conjure PT
    - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-05-25 (will miss 2022-05-26 meeting)
    Last week:
        - sent follow-up to stunprotocol.org mailing list to see if resolving to localhost in RU and UA is expected https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/stunprotocol/20220519170106.tz2ylxws6ygfjgm7%40bamsoftware.com         - set up WireGuard access control for snowflake-02 bridge site https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2805956
    Next week:
        - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63
        - make user accounts for snowflake-02 bridge site
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-05-26
    Last week:
            - distributor retries to rdsys backend (rdsys#99)
            - String method to snowflake events (snowflake!89)
            - run bridgestrap tests in the CI (bridgestrap#35)
            - fix problems with bridgestrap after bullseye upgrade (bridgestrap#34)
            - upload docker images for the new version of snowflake-proxy
            - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)
    Next week:
            - start working on gettor (rdsys#105)
            - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)
            - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)

Shelikhoo: 2022-05-26
   Last Week:
     - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87)      - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29)         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)         - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) <- awaiting/blocked
   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)           - [Research & Coding] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)

Itchy Onion: 2022-05-26
    Last week:
        - work on the snowflake issues assigned to me (!84, !88)
        - review MRs assigned to me
    This week:
        - work on s28 issue 81 (broker crashes under load)

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:
        -

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

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

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

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