tor-project April 2024

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Nina’s Monthly Status Report: March 2024
by Nina 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hi! Below is my March’24 report! In March, I resolved 571 tickets: On Telegram (@TorProjectSupportBot) - 405 On RT (frontdesk@tpo) - 154 On WhatsApp (+447421000612) - 11 and on Signal (+17787431312) - 1. My main focus remains the same - I help Russian-speaking users use Tor Browser and circumvent internet censorship; I also test and report bugs that users find and share with me. There were presidential elections in March in Russia, so to prepare for the event, I reviewed and improved existing user support templates we use on Frondesk, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, and the guide in Russian in the Torforum. Also, at the beginning of March, I helped to find an issuewith Snowflakefront domains[1] and prepared a workaroundtemplatein Russianto help users fix the problem manually before the problem was solved in aTor Browseremergency release [2]. I reportedthe issue of Tor Browser for macOS not working after being downloaded from our telegram bot (https://t.me/ <https://t.me/gettor_bot>gettor_bot <https://t.me/gettor_bot>) by gathering users' feedback and testing myself [3]. [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/135 [2] https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-13011/ [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4…

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cohosh's monthly status report, March 2024
by Cecylia Bocovich 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in March 2024. # Snowflake development The major updates to Snowflake I worked on this month were reviewing an deploying some SQS rendezvous fixes and improvements, and updates to our distributed bridge lines to account for an issue with the front domain we were using. There were also some fixes to the Shadow integration tests. These were rolled out in v2.9.2 - SQS queue work - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - shadow integration fixes - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - released snowflake v2.9.2 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… # Snowflake web extension We've been updating our publishing process since Mozilla modified the review procedure for their addon store. This has required several back-and-forth discussions with reviewers and some modifications to our packaging preparation. - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snow… # Reputation-based bridge distribution Our implementation of Lox is undergoing some improvements and fixes as we encounter bugs from its deployment. The major changes from me this month were some refactoring for code quality, more and an overhaul of the encrypted bridge table. - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/merge_requests/143 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/merge_requests/144 - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/merge_requests/147 # Domain fronting At the very beginning of the month, we had an issue with the front domain we were using for most of our anti-censorship tools and services: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/135 Addressing this issue required various updates to recover. - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/merge_re… - set up new domain fronting accounts for meek and conjure - coordinated with a new meek bridge operator and debugged their setup # Conjure Mainly just did some bridge maintenance and added an IP to the bridge config for a moved station.

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Rhatto's Monthly Status Report, March 2024
by rhatto 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hi all :) This is my monthly status report for March 2024 with the main relevant activities I have done during the period. ## 0. Research * Tor Browser Quality Assurance for Onion Services (TB .onion QA) - 2024.Q1: * In the 2024.Q1 period, the TB .onion QA had the following output: * 9 Tor Browser versions were formally tested. * No serious issues were found affecting onionsites. * A few minor issues were identified and need further investigation or be reported to the browser team. * Versions tested ranged from 13.09 to 13.0.13 and from 13.5a3 to 13.5a6. * Did some internal Onion Planning. ## 1. Development * The Onion Services Ecosystem documentation is now available at the Community Portal: https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/ecosystem An alternative URL is still available at https://tpo.pages.torproject.net/onion-services/ecosystem Details at https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/ecosystem/-/issues/1 * Onionspray. * Released the 1.6.1 version: * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2024-March/000313.html * https://forum.torproject.org/t/onionspray-release-1-6-1/12083 * Onionspray Log Parser: * Renamed eotk-log-parser to onionspray-log-parser: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/onion-services/onionspray-log-parser/-/is… * Added support for aggregating page hits with the same circuit ID. * Launched version 1.0.0 (nothing special with this number, it just means that there was a backward-incompatible change from previous versions). ## 2. Support * Ongoing sponsored work with deployment, maintenance and monitoring of Onion Services. * Did some other support related to setting up Onion Services. ## 3. Organization Time spent (from the total available for Tor-related work): | Category | Percentage |---------------|------------ | Research | 21 | Development | 2 | Support | 54 | Organization | 23 |---------------|------------ | Total | 100 -- Silvio Rhatto pronouns he/him

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PieroV's Monthly Status Report, March 2024
by Pier Angelo Vendrame 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hi everyone, here is my status report for March 2024. This month, I continued the rebase on the Firefox Rapid Release channel. I've arrived on par with mozilla-beta, i.e., I have a branch based on Firefox 125b, and I'm following that channel. I'm trying to rebase my branch onto each beta tag. I've also fixed the various build and runtime errors, and the branch can be built and used (even though this is seriously discouraged as it hasn't been reviewed and we haven't done our audit work yet). However, this is quite reassuring because it reduces the uncertainty of our ESR transition work. I've opened an issue [0] to document this process and all the conflicts I had to merge manually, both trivial and non-trivial. At a certain point, while working on this task, I implemented a script that act as a helper for our usual rebase review procedures [1]. I'm sure it has a lot of margin for improvement, but it should handle our most common cases. My idea is to use it also for the script to perform continuous automatic rebases of our branches. I wrote a proof of concept in 30 minutes, but nothing was ready for production and/or publication. Still, I'm very excited by the possibilities of automation we could implement. Apart from that, I worked on refactoring our TorConnect module [2]. I started it to fix an issue detected by the linter we've had for one year and a half [3]. It was not trivial to fix, and eventually, I ended up reorganizing the whole file, even though the contents haven't changed much. At the end of the month, I also opened another merge request specifically for error handling [4]. Together, they should hopefully help the further Android developments other apps team members are working on. Finally, I worked on some issues about fingerprinting vectors and helped with our March releases. Best, Pier [0] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42441 [1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/pierov/lazy-scripts/-/blob/main/diff-of-diffs… [2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests… [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41114 [4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests…

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