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 --------------------------------
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/snowf...
- Confused about the meek client metrics in Turkmenistan
https://metrics.torproject.org/userstats-bridge-combined.png?start=2021-08-0...
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/snowf...
== 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/snowf...
- made issues for probetest failures https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- 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/snowf... 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/snowf...
Next week:
- make bridgedb a rdsys distributor (bridgedb#40031)
- improve bridgestrap manage of the cache (bridgestrap#27)