Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-03-23-15.58.log.html 

And our meeting pad: Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, March 23 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:
  • The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
  • Past meeting notes can be found at:
  • Tickets that need reviews:  from sponsors, we are working on:
  • All needs review tickets:
  • Sponsor 96
  • Sponsor 139 <-- hackerncoder, irl, joydeep, meskio, emmapeel working on it

== Announcements ==

== Discussion ==

  • renovate bot to update dependencies on our projects
  • there have been complaints that some dependencies of snowflake are outdated
  • currently being used in rdsys, could enable for other projects by request

== Actions ==
  •  update the x/net and x/crypt libraries in snowflake and obfs4

== Interesting links ==

  • 2023-03-15 Orbot for Android v17 BETA 2 released with snowflake-02 bridge

== 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): last updated 2023-03-23
Last week(s):
    - Lox tor browser integration work in progress
        - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/116
        - created a fork of wasm-bindgen that generates javascript bindings for the lox client that are compatible with internal browser modules
        - looked into enabling wasm target for rust in tbb
            - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/40818
    - Lox distributor work
        - debugged some async problems with the rdsys-backend-api library
    - helped set up new meek bridge for users in TM
This week:
    - continue Lox tor browser integration
    - catch up on snowflake-webext issues and MRs
Needs help with:

dcf: 2023-03-23
  • Last week:
  • - contributed thoughts about how to share a pool of snowflake proxies with other circumvention projects
  • Next week:
  • Help with:

meskio: 2023-03-23
   Last week:
  • - explore how to add webtunnel to rdsys (rdsys#142)
  • - add webtunnel support to bridgestrap (bridgestrap!15)
  • - experiment with renovate bot in rdsys to update dependencies
  • - apply to docker DSOS program (team#121)
  • - rebase pt version spec (torspec!63)
   Next week:
  • - rdsys webtunnel support (rdsys#142)

Shelikhoo: 2023-03-16
   Last Week:
  • - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)
  • - Comment on OnionShare Rebrand
  • - Comment on S96 User Research Risk Assessment
   Next Week:
  • - [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
  • - Try to find a place to host another vantage point
  • - logcollector alter system
  • - webtunnel document for proxy opertaor

onyinyang: 2023-03-23
    Last week:
        - Finished up most of the minimally working example of Lox server integration with rdsys
  •          - Identified and helped to debug async issues with rdsys-backend-api stream
  •          - Added more helpful comments/error handling and graceful shutdown

    This week:
        - Finish up the handling of changed resources in the Lox library
  • - Improve client side handling of BridgeLines?
  • - Discuss next steps with cohosh

Itchy Onion: 2023-03-22
    Last week:
  • - Closed #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy)
  • - Closed #40265 (mac user reporting standalone proxy complaning about broker cert)
  • - Worked on #40231 (Client sometimes send offer with no ICE candidates)

    This week:
     - Tested and created a potential broker security issue (#40266)
  • - Stil working on #40231 -- validate SDP contains candidate at the "/client" and "/answer" endpoints broke almsot all of the unit tests 


hackerncoder: 2023-03-09
    last week:
    Next week:
        - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)
        - ooni-exporter web_connectivity
        - work on "bridgetester"?
        - how does Iran block bridges

cece: 2022-12-22
    This week:
        - working on creating a dummy WhatsApp bot
    Next week:
        - My bot is not yet working as expected s? still trying to figure that out
    Help with:
  •      - resources