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Community Team meeting notes - May 2nd 2022
by gus 06 May '22

06 May '22

Hi, Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-02-13.59.log… And our meeting pad: ## Tor Community Team meeting pad Next meeting: Monday, May 9, 2022 - 1400 UTC Weekly meetings, every Monday at 14:00 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 Community Team work at Tor. ## Links to Useful documents * Previous meetings: https://forum.torproject.net/tag/community-team * Monthly l10n hangout: * https://community.torproject.org/localization/hangouts/ * Known issues with Tor Browser: * https://tb-manual.torproject.org/known-issues/ and Tor Browser for Android: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/mobile-tor/#known-issues ## Discussion - Relay operator sysadmin 101 workshop: - (draft) form: https://nc.torproject.net/apps/forms/cDLPxryHJcP5kMeW - invitation: - (gus) oniondao folks - (gman999) bsd folks + RPI students - OONI+Tor training in Latam with Derechos Digitales: - Maria will run an OONI workshop with DD - We will have a training day to talk about Tor & anticensorship - Gus will share the survey pad with Raya - Ticket: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/training/-/issues/47 - Collecting Tor Browser alpha feedback from our support channels (RT and cdr.link): - Create a pad to collect user feedback from RT and cdr.link and track down TB alpha bugs - Create a template on RT to tag tickets - Add how to report a bug or give feedback in cdr.link text module (in Russian): https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40079 - Training page revamp discussion: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/issues/265 ## Updates Joydeep: Last week: - 1:1 with Gus - Testing Tor Browser 11.5a9 wrt. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/manual/-/issues/119 - Reviewed user trust levels on the forum with Gus (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40078) - Investigating some issues on our Telegram support channel / cdr.link with Nina (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40078) - user support work forum, RT, cdr.link - working with users to gather feedback on this fenix bug : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40216 This week: - Testing Tor Browser alpha and prepare the documentation changes - S125 retrospective meeting Gus: Last week: - Worked on relay operator workshop form - Organized the Tor Latam meetup - S96 meeting - S9 meeting - Websites work: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/support/-/merge_requests/108 - Meeting with Derechos Digitales - Alix Dunn course - Met opensearch community manager - team 1:1s - Got more private bridges for frontdesk/cdr.link This week: - S125 retrospective meeting - S30 meeting - Team 1:1s - Alix Dunn course - Network Health work with dgoulet and geko - Organize the East Africa Meetup (05/26 @ 1300 UTC) with raya - Promote the Relay Operator meetup (05/21 @ 1900 UTC) - Publish the Tor news (newsletter.torproject.org) rhatto: Last week: - S123 - Continue the Onionprobe testbed setup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/59 - S123 - Continue to work on new deployments - S123 - Created Onionmine: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionmine/ This week: - S123 - Continue the Onionprobe testbed setup: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/merge_request… - S123 - Work on new deployments - 1:1 with Gus Nina: Last week: - Tor users' support on cdr.link (Telegram) and RT (email). - 1:1 with Gus - Checked Telegram support channel issues This week: - User support. - Final meeting s125 - alpha-version testing raya: Last week: - Met with s123 stakeholders, discussed infrastructure requirements for s123 landing pages - April narrative report for s123: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onion-support/-/issues/75 - Some touch-ups on training page proposal: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/community/-/issues/265 - Started presentation on onion services for general audience (will help with s123, conference proposal, and general use within community work) - 1:1 with Gus - Gathered a list of entities who could be interested in a Tor Global South meetup This week: - Finalize s123 narrative report and send to grants - First draft of onion services presentation complete Help with: - Something you need help with. emmapeel: Last week: - support sponsors 123 and 125 - translation maintenance, updates, translators feedback This week: - support sponsors 123 and 125 - translation documentation - training page revamp Help with: - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/web/tpo/-/issues/290 to publish Khmer translation -- The Tor Project Community Team Lead

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, April 2022
by rhatto 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for April 2022. Main activities during the period: 0. Onionprobe (an onion sites monitoring tool): * Uploaded to PyPI! https://pypi.org/project/onionprobe/ * Released Onionprobe version 0.3.0: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/blob/main/Cha… https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/tags/0.3.0 * Added Debian packaging support! https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionprobe/-/issues/4 * Adapted for an instance monitoring the health of The Tor Project's onion sites: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40717 2. Onionmine: created this small set of scripts to help automating the generation of Onion Service vanity keys: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionmine/ 3. Many other activities related to Sponsor 123 such as meetings, development and support :) -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-05-05
by meskio 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hey everyone! Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-05-05-15.58.html And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad -------------------------------- Next meeting: Thursday May 12th 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?s… * 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&… * Sponsor 96 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 == Announcements == * the bridges telegram bot is now in rdsys == Discussion == * Distributed Snowflake Server Support * there is a merge request now: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… * review is wellcome, there are mayor changes * RKS hackathon * RKS is organizing a hackathon: demhack.ru and asked TPO to be part of it * we are proposing whatsapp gettor+bridgesbot * they think it might be to small, we can extend it * another idea is to do it in iMessage * we'll discuss it in a ticket * due to monday == 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/-/mer… cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14 Last week: - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124) - merge request: snowflake!85 - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127) - merge request: snowflake!86 - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125) - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474) - work on conjure test environment setup This week: - continue work on conjure PT - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with: dcf: 2022-05-01 (will be absent 2022-05-05) Last week: - opened an issue for confusing client NAT check log messages https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - filed an OONI issue to get access to stunreachability measurements, in order to get more insignt into torsf (snowflake) failures https://github.com/ooni/backend/issues/590 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/snow… 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/snow… Help with: - maxb: 2021-09-23 Last week: - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… 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: 2022-05-05 Last week: - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#111) - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment (team#78) - add onionsproutsbot to transifex (l10n#40070) - add the location to circumvention settings (rdsys#108) - API for dynamic bridges in telegram (rdsys#98) - review bridedb.tpo/info fixes (bridgedb!39) Next week: - bridges sharing the same IP should use the same distributor (rdsys#106) - finish and deploy the changes into circumvention settings API (rdsys#108) Shelikhoo: 2022-05-05 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) - [Merge Request Review] Don't mix up old and new telegram accounts(snowflake!38) - [Merge Request Review] Remove smallerRichard default bridge - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3) - [Coding & Deployment] Include frontdisk testing targets in probe tests (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#4) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Discussion] Opening 8443 port on probetelemetry-01@ for V2Ray Websocket Connection Inbound Next Week: - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue) - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transport… Itchy Onion: 2022-05-05 Last week: - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with snowflake rebasing) This week: - prepare Georgetown meeting (read more docs and code) - starting to look at new RACE version (2.1.1) 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 -- meskio | https://meskio.net/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- My contact info: https://meskio.net/crypto.txt -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nos vamos a Croatan.

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Nina's Monthly Status Report, April 2022
by nina13＠riseup.net 05 May '22

05 May '22

Hi, that's my monthly report for April 2022 Summary: Telegram tickets answered and solved - 554 Tickets received by email (frontdesk) answered and solved - 189 Total: 743 This month I took part in the Samsung S22 bug investigation[1] and spotted some issues with cdr.link[2]. Fortunately, minor ones. In April, we managed to get some feedback on censorship in Turkmenistan[3] and test some ways to circumvent it. Private bridges worked best. This month @ggus, @championquizzer, and I had a Ticket triage and backlog session for frontdesk tickets. I put some effort into educating as many users as possible about our bot https://t.me/@getbridgesbot so that they could get bridges anytime and immediately. That makes their experience using Tor Browser better and gives us more space to communicate with alpha-testers. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40216 [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40078 [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss… and https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/iss…

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, April 2022
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 03 May '22

03 May '22

Hi everyone! Here is my status report for April 2022. As anticipated last month, I continued working on the about:torconnect page and on about:preferences#connection. We have merged the first revision, which you can find on the latest alphas of Tor Browser 11.5! Any feedback is more than welcome 😄️. But we have not stopped there, and we prepared a second iteration, which is being reviewed [1]. Apart from this, I have worked on Tor Browser for Android for the rest of the month. We really had a lot of trouble with the rebase to Geckoview/Android Components/Fenix v99. You can read the whole story on tor-browser-build#40446 [2]. It should solve the crash that some users reported to us. We are sorry it took us so long to fix them. I have also already rebased everything for a v99-base stable of Tor Browser for Android 11.0, and I hope to begin its preparation soon. However, Firefox 100 is coming soon. Therefore, I worked for a v100-based TBA in April last week [3]. In addition to the updates, my working branch makes the QA-signed build compatible with Android R+ [4]. Thanks, Pier [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4… [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issues/40202

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