Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-28-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday May 5th 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 ==

* polyanthum & gettor-01 will be upgraded next week, the servers where bridgedb,rdsys,gettor and other anti-censorship infra is hosted

== Discussion ==

* Distributed Snowflake Server Support         * Any feedbacks?         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...         * No blocker issue discovered.         * will first deploy the new broker, and give time for proxies to update     * removed smallerRichard builtin server         * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/44     * RKS hackathon         * (Discussion Skipped)

== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

* https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kazakhstan-shut-down-its-intern...     * https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/114

== Reading group ==

* We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on Apr/28th/2022         * https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836         * https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/108         * 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.

anadahz: 2022-01-27     Last week:         - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merg...

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14 Last week:     - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124)         - merge request: snowflake!85     - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)         - merge request: snowflake!86     - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)     - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474)     - work on conjure test environment setup This week:     - continue work on conjure PT     - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-04-28     Last week:         - made graphs of the snowflake bridge since the server move 2 weeks ago https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...     Next week:         - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63         - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...     Help with:

arlolra: 2022-04-07     Last week:         - Merged the rest of snowflake !81     Next week:       - Get to snowflake-webext #10     Evergreen:         - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used         - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls         https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...     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: 2022-04-28     Last week:             - use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to distribute (rdsys#96)             - give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107)             - removed smallerRichard builtin bridge (team#44)             - brainstorm on dnstt (trac#40001)     Next week:             - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#101)             - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment

Shelikhoo: 2022-04-28    Last Week:         - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)           - [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request           - [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS           - [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription")           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment - Dockerlized           - [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker    Next Week:           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)           - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...)           - [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24

Itchy Onion: 2022-04-28     Last week:         - debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue         - had a meeting with Georgetown folks (a recurring meeting to go over each other's channel code)     This week:         - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with rebase snowflake rebasing)         - go over RACECAR docs

HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16 This week:     Last/done:         Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space     Next:         Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain