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Anti-censorship --------------------------------

Next meeting: Thursday, March 02 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-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%...

Sponsor 96

https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

Sponsor 139 <-- hackerncoder, irl, joydeep, meskio, emmapeel working on it

https://pad.riseup.net/p/sponsor139-meeting-pad

== Announcements ==

== Discussion ==

What is the status of activating the snowflake-02 bridge in Orbot?

snowflake-01 is still pretty much saturated, and snowflake-02 relatively almost unused

no news yet from Orbot on status of deployment

latest Orbot release was 2023-01-13

will add to S96 agenda and discuss in 2 weeks (On March 2rd) if they are not around

forking obfs4proxy, a new name?

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/obfs4...

rdsys is using onbasca to measure bridge bandwidth

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/76

bridgestrap is reporing most bridges as non-functional

looks similar to an old issue: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgestrap/-/issues/7

rdsys can handle the situation and will not be a big problem if is not fixed fast

== Actions ==

meskio will write a survival guide on onbasca

move the ampcache snowflake fallback forward

== Interesting links ==

https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=IR&since=2023-01-20&unt...

continued sporadic blocking of cdn.sstatic.net in Iran

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

== Reading group ==

We will discuss "Detecting Tor Bridge from Sampled Traffic in Backbone Networks" on March 9

https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/madweb2021_23011_paper.pdf

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 2023-02-16 Last week:     - FOCI workshop prep     - Lox tor browser integration work in progress         - https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/tor-browser/-/tree/lox-integration This week:     - Lox tor browser integration     - continue work on conjure client-side recovery Needs help with:

dcf: 2023-02-16

Last week:

- opened issue to restart snowflake bridges for haproxy CVE-2023-0056, CVE-2023-25725 https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

Next week:

- restart snowflake bridges https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...

- migrate goptlib to gitlab https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86#note_2823... (for real)

Help with:

meskio: 2023-02-23    Last week:        - integrate onbasca into rdsys to test bridge speed (rdsys#150)        - deploy onbasca in polyanthum        - patch onbasca API to be easier to parse (onbasca!60)        - investigate bridgestrap issue, is reporting 30% of functional bridges    Next week:        - Vacation!!!

Shelikhoo: 2023-02-16    Last Week:

- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)

- [Research] HTTPT Planning https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/httpt...

- Try to find a place to host another vantage point (not working so far)

- WebTunnel @ TorBrowser mobile

Next Week:

- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)

- Try to find a place to host another vantage point

- WebTunnel @ TorBrowser mobile

onyinyang: 2023-02-23     Last week:         - Lox wasm bindings for Tor integration:             - encrypted bridge table (this took longer than expected due to confusion about needing to implement deserialize)             - level up     This week:         - continuing with bindings for the rest of the Lox protocols:             - issue invitation             - check blockage             - blockage migration     Help with:

- questions about best way to handle timing for freshness credentials (fresh for x time period or fresh until x time each day)<this is not especially urgent>

Itchy Onion: 2023-02-23     Last week:

- Continue working on issue #40108 (standalone proxy bind specific IP)

- Created issue #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy)

- Foci

- Work on updating snowflake plugin for the latest race version  (code freeze on Friday)

This week:

- Holiday

- Contine working on issue #40252 (NAT probetest for standalone proxy)

hackerncoder: 2023-02-23     last week:         - work on monitoring bridges health     Next week:         - getting ooni-exporter to work with torsf (snowflake)         - work on "bridgetester"?

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