Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-12-21-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship --------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday, January 11 16:00 UTC Facilitator: shelikhoo
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress)
This week's Facilitator: meskio
== 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?sc... * Sponsor 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24 * Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_nam...
== Announcements ==
* No meetings December 28, neither January 4
== Discussion ==
* Tor Browser users on Windows 7/8 have started having problems with PTs because Go 1.21 removed support * tor-browser-build now uses Go 1.20 for everything except Snowflake: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/commit/22... * we'll try to fix the issue by providing our own random source and see how invasive si the change
* manifest v2 deprecation in browsers and snowflake webextension * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... * https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/ * google chrome will stop supporting mv2 June 2024 * will the snowflake webextension stop working? do we want to do something? or just recommend firefox? * cohosh will look into this next year and see how hacky needs to be the solution
* validation for bridgelines * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/41913#no... * there is no fingerprint in the conjure bridgeline we shared, and we have some doubts if giving an error on bridgelines without fingerprint in TB or not * we'll include a fingerprint in future conjure bridgelines * and we'll not give an error for now on missing fingerprint bridgelines
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group == * We will discuss "" on * * 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): 2023-12-21 Last week: - debugged some issues with the lox distributor deployment - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41406 - lox tor browser integration work - removed extra log message for snowflake connection closure - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - worked on finding alternative domain fronting providers This week: - conjure bridge maintenance - review SQS rendezvous Needs help with:
dcf: 2023-12-14 Last week: - opened issue to upgrade snowflake bridges to 0.4.8.10 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - azure CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-cos... Next week: - upgrade snowflake bridges to 0.4.8.10 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - review draft MR for unreliable data channels https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - parent: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker Before EOY 2023: - move snowflake-02 to new VM Help with:
meskio: 2023-12-21 Last week: - grant writing Next week:
Shelikhoo: 2023-12-21 Last Week: - Work on snowflake performance improvement (WIP): https://gitlab.torproject.org/shelikhoo/snowflake/-/tree/dev-udp-performance... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Analysis of S150 HTTPS distributors design: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/191 - Merge request reviews Next Week/TODO:
onyinyang: 2023-12-21 Last week(s): - Worked on Telegram bot: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/223 - Added several additional Lox wasm stubs needed by applications team This week: - Finish up Telegram bot dev - Continue to support Lox wasm stubs as needed - attempt hyper upgrade again - Holiday!
(long term things were discussed at the meeting!): https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep - brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are distributed/use in practice Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate resources to people? 1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we can already consider? e.g., by PT, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a requesting user's geoip or something?) 2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access to 1)? More? Less?