Hey everyone! Here is our meeting log: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-12-15-15.59.log....
And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship team meeting pad--------------------------------
Next meeting: Thursday, Dec 15 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 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 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%...
- Sponsor 96
- https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24
== Announcements ==
- No meetings December 29 neither January 5. We'll be AFK Dec 22 - Jan 7
== Discussion ==
- Is snowflake blocked in russia?
- it doesn't seem to have much usage there and the vantage point seems to indicate it doesn't work
- we'll change circumvention settings to recommend first obfs4 bridges
== Actions ==
- we should investigate if snowflake is blocked in russia (circumvention settings is recommending snowflake in russia, I wonder if we should change that)
== Interesting links ==
== Reading group ==
- We will discuss "" on
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- 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 2022-11-24
- Last week:
- - wrote a fix to make go fmt CI more verbose (snowflake!122)
- This week:
- - continue work on conjure client
- - more work on reputation-based bridge dist
- - fixup snowflake!108
- Needs help with:
dcf: 2022-12-14
- Last week:
- - made the number of KCP state machines a command-line option and merged it https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - brought the snowflake bridge installation guide up to date with current settings https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guid...
- - deployed current performance settings on snowflake-02 bridge
- - changed srcaddr in extor-static-cookie to a transport option from a command-line option, like in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/extor-static-cookie/-/commit/61e0684e40f84...
- - had the IP addresses of snowflake-02 added to DDoS mitigation scripts https://github.com/steinex/tor-ddos/issues/2 https://github.com/Enkidu-6/tor-relay-lists/issues/2
- - opened an issue for a duplicate flag name in snowflake-server https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- - started an experiment to increase the size of the conntrack table on snowflake-01 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Next week:
- - make obfs4 distinguishability reports public
- - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4...
- - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/91
- - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823...
- - try Conjure PT development version https://forum.torproject.net/t/tor-dev-introducing-a-conjure-pt-for-tor/4429
- Help with:
meskio: 2022-12-15 Last week: - figure out why onionsproutsbot freezees in our server (onionsproutsbot#47) - add support for multiple shim-tokens for moat (rdsys#118) - remove unused DKIM header verification from BridgeDB (bridgedb!51) - catching up with outreachy duties Next week: - add localization support to rdsys (rdsys#11) - make onionsproutsbot work in systemd (onionsproutsbot#47) - poke outdated bridge operators (obfs4#40008)
Shelikhoo: 2022-12-08 Last Week:
- - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
- - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support
- - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
- - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt...
- [Merge Request] Update to support chunked upload of probe log(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...) - [Merge Request] Add Resumable Upload to Log Collector (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...) Next Week:
- - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
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Itchy Onion: 2022-12-15 Last week:
- - worked on RACE performance issue
- [Merge Request Done] "Abbreviate `ice` list in bridge lines" - reviewed some MRs
This week:
- - Work on the RACE performance issue
- - [Merge Request Done] Fix duplicate snowflake server flag
- - Work on adding Outbound address option to snwoflake server
hackerncoder: 2022-12-15 last week/earlier this week: - worked on ooni-exporter https://gitlab.torproject.org/hackerncoder/ooni-exporter Next week/later this week: - getting ooni-exporter setup on a personal server - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake) - work on monitoring bridges health