Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-07-14-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday July 21 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 ==

== Discussion ==

* What is the status of adjusting snowflake (pion) DTLS signature to avoid blocking in Russia? (Based on offset of supported_groups extension.) * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/censorship-analysis/-/issu... * https://github.com/pion/dtls/pull/474 * https://ntc.party/t/webrtc/2174/21 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050 (generally) * shell have produced a TB tgz with a modified snowflake to test * https://people.torproject.org/~shelikhoo/dqo8apcai4/tor-browser/tor-browser-... * shell will post it in nft and tor forum

* git.torproject.org deprecation * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/40472 * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/86 * what do we do with go modules urls using git.torproject.org? * we'll need to update the major version of the packages when we change the module name to gitlab.tpo * should find a new home for goptlib * meskio will check if dcf is ok with moving it to https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/goptl... * commit signing policy https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/8#note_27354... * will be discussed in the ticket

* bridge:// URI proposal and QR codes * the current situation of bridge QR codes is messy with different format on different applications * there is a proposal of a URI format: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/team/-/wikis/Design-Documents... * meskio is opening the conversation with the interested parties

== 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 2022-06-30 Last week: - got tor to bootstrap fully with the deployed conjure station and bridge - met with CU Boulder team to discuss conjure rollout plan This week: - follow up with CU Boulder team about a wireguard connection between the station and bridge - 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 Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-07-07 Last week: - commented on STATUS VERSION proposal and proposed some text https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63#note_2817... - commented on Snowflake user estimates vis-à-vis Tor Metrics https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40... https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/metrics/website/-/issues/40... Next week: Help with:

meskio: 2022-07-14 Last week: - provide dummy bridges if not domain fronted moat request (bridgedb!41) - update PT SPEC status version on dfc comments (torspec!63) - plan migration away from git.tpo - review bridge:// URI proposal - start a conversation about bridge:// URI and QR codes with interested apps Next week: - make gettor-rdsys organize archive content in foders

Shelikhoo: 2022-07-14 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 - [Deployment] Creating a version of Tor Browser with patched Snowflake client that includes supported_groups censorship countermeasure(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/83#note_2820...) Next Week: - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54) - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni - [Discussion & Deployment] Migrating Controlling git repo to Tor Gitlab Instance (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#5) result

Itchy Onion: 2022-07-07 Last week: - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81 - taking over part of testing snowflake This week: - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, fixing a leaking file descriptor issue - taking over part of testing snowflake