Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-18-15.58.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Aug 25 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 Tor.

== 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 ==

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== Discussion ==

(New)     * Think a new name for HTTPT PT?         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt...         * we'll rename it to webtunnel

* Update on the manifest V3 situation for Snowflake webextensions and possible solutions         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...         * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1207214         * manifest V3 doesn't allow to run webrtc in background         * chromium is planning to deprecate v2 beggining of next year, it will continue be working on firefox         * a possible workaround is to open a tab with the badge         * will ask tor, anti-censorship mailing list for suggestions

* Snowflake in Turkmenistan: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu...         * request users to submit log from Tor Browser     * == 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): last updated 2022-08-18     Last week:     - Followed up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the conjure station and bridge     - Worked on Snowflake webextension V3 manifest update     - FOCI townhall and HoTFOCI     This week:     - a few quality of life conjure issues         - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conju...     - draft an announcement of conjure for forum and development community mailing lists (are you in contact with comms@ about this? --gaba)     Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-08-18     Last week:         - updated graphs of users in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2826...         - snowflake CDN bookkeeping https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Snowflake-cos...         - talked to people at the FOCI townhall and HotFOCI (https://hotfoci.org/). gave people references on:             - blockpage injection in China: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu... http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-01-13-15.59.log....             - running a bridge: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/             - RACECAR and obfs5: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4...     Next week:         - disable non-WireGuard SSH access to snowflake-02         - migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823...     Help with:

meskio: 2022-08-18    Last week:        - prepare bridgedb 0.14 release        - fight with bridgedb tests that don't want to pass        - prepare a deployment of rdsys-gettor        - modify circumvention settings map to support hardcoded bridgelines        - prepare changes to use azure for snowflake in turkmenistan    Next week:        - deploy moat shim-token support        - deploy rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-08-18    Last Week:         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)         - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5)         - [Discussion & Deployment] Rollout of Distributed Snowflake Support         - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...         - [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt...         - [Deployment] Enable unprivilaged user namespace support on probetelemetry-01@ for systemd user unit isolation https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40855    Next Week:         - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni         - [Research+Coding] Raw Probe Log Data Collection https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/connectivity-measurement/l...         - [Research] HTTPT Planning(Continue)         - [Coding] HTTPT PT

Itchy Onion: 2022-08-18     Last week:         - Talked to Eliana from Georgetown on the leaking file descriptor issue fix         - RACE 2.2.X results came back on Friday, didn't pass the CI test     This week:         - Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebasing upstream, changing timeout in snowflake library used) and talked to Cecylia about it (can you mention here what are those few things? --gaba)     Next week:         - Continue working on RACE 2.2.X (add more error logging in the plugin code to hopefully pinpoint at which point messages are being dropped)