To: Subject: Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-08-25

Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-08-25-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday Sept 1 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 ==

* There will not be a meeting Sept 15th

== Discussion ==

* 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 begining 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... * we are providing a different snowflake bridgeline with specific port for stun servers and azure ad domian front * the changes seems to work for AGTS (one ISP) but not for others, as they block port 3478 and 3479

(New) * Reading group suggestion * "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" * 6 pages * https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938 * PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938

* new version of BridgeDB and rdsys * a facelift of bridges.torproject.org * svg images and translations are broken but working on it

== Actions ==

== Interesting links ==

== Reading group ==

* We will discuss "An Empirical Analysis of Plugin-Based Tor Traffic over SSH Tunnel" on Sept 8 * https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9020938 * PDF available from Sci-Hub, DOI 10.1109/MILCOM47813.2019.9020938 * 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 2022-08-25 Last week: - Worked on reproducible builds of Conjure (conjure#14) - helped debug blocking of Snowflake in TM This week: - Snowflake web extension v3 manifest - polish the badge-helper extension more - email tor-dev and anti-censorship team about the current plan - 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: 2022-08-25 Last week: - documented re-block of www.torproject.org in Russia https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/-/issues/40050#note_2830... 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: 2022-08-25 Last week: - release BridgeDB 0.14 - release rdsys 0.3 - deploy BridgeDB new UI - deploy Circumvention Settings changes for snowflake in TM - deploy telegram support for dynamic bridges API - review arti proposal for pluggable transports (arti!686) Next week: - deploy rdsys-gettor

Shelikhoo: 2022-08-25 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... - [Research] WebTunnel Planning(Continue) - [Coding] WebTunnel PT 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] WebTunnel Planning(Continue) - [Coding] WebTunnel PT(https://gitlab.torproject.org/shelikhoo/webtunnel/-/tree/dev-init) - [Deployment] WebTunnel PT(maybe https://bridges.torproject.org/status?id=CD050211692AED05885172BCA6ED4B9F561...)

Itchy Onion: 2022-08-25 Last week: - Tried a few things for RACE 2.2.X (rebase upstream, change timeout in snowflake library used, add more logging ) and talked to Cecylia about it - This week: - Continue working on RACE 2.2.x - RACE T&E meeting - Review !98 (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...) Next week: - RACE 2.2.x