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)

-

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