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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-09-01



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-09-01-15.57.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 8 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 ==

    * There will not be a meeting Sept 15th
    * Conjure PT ready to try out: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000240.html

== Discussion ==

    * Snowflake in Turkmenistan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issues/40024         * we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure and domain front         * the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479

    * TorCloak Integration with BridgeDB
        * We are currently developing a new Tor Pluggable Transport called TorCloak. TorCloak's basic mechanism is to conceale Tor traffic on the video streams of WebRTC-based video conferencing services.         *  We are now coming to a stage on our project in which we are discussing solutions to disseminate our bridges.
        * Sent a draft of the solution via the mailing list.
            * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-August/000239.html
        * Get everyone's opinion and feedback on the solution

(New)
    * Next Step for WebTunnel
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel/-/tree/7e7bebb499a46345b9adf030666698427965e953
== Actions ==


== Interesting links ==


== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8
        * https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938
        * PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938
        * 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 2022-08-25
    Last week:
    - Worked on reproducible builds of Conjure (conjure#14)
    - helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM
    This week:
    - Snowflake web extension v3 manifest
         - polish the badge-helper extension more
         - email tor-dev and anti-censorship team about the current plan
    - a few quality of life conjure issues
        - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/?sort=updated_desc&state=opened&assignee_username%5B%5D=cohosh&first_page_size=20     - draft an announcement of conjure for forum and development community mailing lists (are you in contact with comms@ about this? --gaba)

    Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-09-01
    Last week:
        - worked at understanding the nature of the changes in obfs4proxy-0.0.12           - identified the cause of the probabilistic (fails 3/4 of the time) failures in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/40804           - found a way to remotely detect old versions https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91         - replied to question about TorCloak integration with Tor bridge distribution https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2022-September/000241.html
    Next week:
        - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02
        - 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
    Help with:

meskio: 2022-09-01
   Last week:
       - continue with rdsys-gettor deployment (distributor configured and working, fixes on TPA side, ...)
       - deploy BridgeDB css/svg fixes
       - review webtunnel implementation (webtunnel!1)
       - review webextension merge requests (webextension!39)
       - review new snowflake.torproject.org page
       - scann obfs4 bridges for pre-0.0.12 versions
   Next week:
       - deploy rdsys-gettor
       - fix language issues in BridgeDB (bridgedb#40056)

Shelikhoo: 2022-09-01
   Last Week:
        - [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)         - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Merged] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1         - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt/-/issues/1
        - [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
        - [Coding] WebTunnel PT
        - [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F5611FA6A)
        - [Deployment] Raw Probe Log Data Collection

   Next Week:
        - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni         - [Research+Coding] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/logcollector/-/issues/1
        - [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue)
        - [Research] Log Collector Speed Measurement


Itchy Onion: 2022-09-01
    Last week:
        - RACE 2.2.x
        - RACE T&E meeting
        - Review !98 (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/98)
    This week:
        - Researched and discussed the implication of disabling mdns with the team
        - Verify !98
        - Will spend some time on RACE 2.2.x either today or tomorrow
    Next week:



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