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[tor-project] Anti-censorship meeting notes, 2021 November 4

Hi everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2021/tor-meeting.2021-11-04-15.59.html

and the meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday November 4th 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 checkin about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Announcements ==

    welcome shelikhoo!


== Discussion ==

- change in proxy NAT types

    we had an issue with the slow recovery of "unrestricted" proxy NATs
opened https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40075 

- Confused about the meek client metrics in Turkmenistan


https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.png?start=2021-08-02&end=2021-11-04&country=tm

    https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40030

    snowflake seems to be blocked
we have prioritized an easier way to get snowflake connection info: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40062 


== Actions ==

    please fill out the monthly report for september + october

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-anti-censorship-monthly-report-keep


== Interesting links ==

    https://github.com/xiaokangwang/VLite


== Reading group ==
We will discuss "Measuring QQMail's automated email censorship in China" on 2021-11-11 

    https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474560

    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 2021-11-04
Last week:
    - some reviews
    - updates to changelog
    - NSF grant planning
    - wrapping up snowflake for v2 release (snowflake#40063)
    - worked on snowflake + shadow performance work
    - onboarding preparation tasks
    - helped debug snowflake domain name resolution (snowflake#40057)
    - created snowflake#40076 for client network event callbacks
    - monitored snowflake broker prometheus metrics
This week:
- automate blocking detection for rotating IP bridges (censorship-analysis#40020) 
    - more snowflake performance work (snowflake#40026)
Needs help with:

arlolra: 2021-08-12

    Last week:

    - Migrate to v3 of the webextension manifest

    Next week:

    - Maybe get back to snowflake-webext #10
- Write up the pitch for our use case for supporting creating PeerConnections in background service workers https://github.com/w3c/webrtc-extensions/issues/77 

    Help with:

    -


dcf: 2021-11-04

    Last week:
- rebooted snowflake VPSes https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40073
- made issues for probetest failures https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40071 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40072
- looked up issues possibly related to bridge bootstrap failures https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/issues/40396#note_2757812 

    Next week:

    - will miss 2021-11-11 meeting

    Help with:


agix:2021-11-04

    Last week:

    -

    Next week:

    -Adjust BridgeDB Patch to Gitlab

    -Start with rdsys issue#40 (twitter gettor distributor)

    Help with:
-@meskio: Is it ok for you if I work on the twitter gettor distributor? 


hanneloresx: 2021-3-4

    Last week:

    - Submitted MR for bridgestrap issue #14

    Next week:

    - Finish bridgestrap #14

    - Find new issue to work on

    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: 2021-11-04

    Last week:

    - Make prometheus alerts for snowflake (snowflake#40072)
- starting to have an implementation of bridgedb bridge using rdsys (bridgedb#40031) 

    - copy snowflake technical overview into our wiki


https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Technical%20Overview

    Next week:

    - make bridgedb a rdsys distributor (bridgedb#40031)

    - improve bridgestrap manage of the cache (bridgestrap#27)
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