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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-11-24



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-11-24-15.58.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 Dec 01 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 the Tor Project and Tor community.

== 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 ==

(OLD)
    * security policy
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/team/-/wikis/NetworkTeam/SecurityPolicy         * we are working on a project wide security policy on how to handle security issues         * the starting point is the NetworkTeam security policy, and from ACT we'll try to propose changes to addapt it to our needs.
    * domain fronting deprecation in azure
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/33#note_2853813
        * azure is going to block all domain front traffic after Nov 8 2023
        * we only use it for meek
        * we'll discuss 6 months before the block if we can deprecate meek or need to find an alternative
(NEW)
   [We exchanged the current progress and difficulty. The meeting summarily closed.]
== Actions ==


== Interesting links ==

    * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33573477
        * "It's been many years, and I am still angry and disappointed by Cloudflare's decision to block domain fronting and drop Lantern as a customer..."
    * https://github.com/aleixrodriala/wa-tunnel
        * HTTP Tunneling through WhatsApp

== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study" on Dec 1
        * https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/auto-draft-123/
        * https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/dnspriv21-02-paper.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.

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-11-24
    Last week:
        - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
    This week:
        - continue work on conjure client
        - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
        - fixup snowflake!108
    Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-11-23
    Last week:
        - reviewed merge request to make `go fmt` errors in CI more obvious https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/122
    Next week:
        - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122         - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823122         - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429         - document recent performance optimizations in Snowflake bridge installation guide         - make the number of KCP state machines a command-line option https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/119
    Help with:
        - review of remaining snowflake-server performance improvements
            - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/115             - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/118

meskio: 2022-11-17
   Last week:
       - send a reminderder? to all bridge operators to upgrade obfs4
       - fail to deploy a new version of OnionSproutsBot and roll back
       - investigate gettor freeze (rdsys#129)
       - update snowflake (2.3.1) package in debian (snowflake#40233)
       - add circumvention settings for AE (team#106)
       - many merge requests reviews in rdsys and snowflake
       - work with TAILS to find a qr code setup that works for them in BridgeDB
   Next week:
       - check if we are distributing blocked bridges in moat (rdsys#80)
       - investigate gettor freeze (rdsys#129)


Shelikhoo: 2022-11-24
   Last Week:
        - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)         - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1         - [Research] Censorship analysis for UDP traffic between Iran and rest of Internet: 2022 Q4: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship- analysis/-/issues/40036         - [Merge Request] Add Version Output Support to Snowflake (This also shows utls client hello names) https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/111 (Continue)
        - [Coding] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser
        - Reviewed a lot of merge requests
   Next Week:
        - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
        - [Research] Fix vantage point summary upload in China
        - [Coding] Get Webtunnel to build together with tor browser(Continue)         - [Coding] fix "utls RoundTripper does not work when it is supposed to use HTTP/1" https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40224
     - Finish all the reviews (cont)

Itchy Onion: 2022-11-24
    Last week:
      - continue working on snowflake in RACE; it passes one of the integration tests, but fails the second one with heavier load       - worked on "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" (interruptted by RACE test results)

    This week:
      - continue working on snowflake in RACE; trying to cut down the number of times snowflake peers establish connection bc it's expensive (right now multiple connections are needed for messages between the same hosts)
      - review some MRs




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