Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs: http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-06-09-15.59.html http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-03-31-15.59.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad

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Next meeting: Thursday June 16nd 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 ==

* anti-censorship irc channel: #tor-anticensorship @ irc.oftc.net

== Discussion ==

* Add an alert for dynamic bridges healthness(src Shell)     * Internet filtering in Canada: \R\o\g\e\r\s' NHL blocking order (src Shell)         * https://typefully.com/kaplanmyrth/internet-filtering-in-canada-rogers-nhl-TP...         * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31677867         * cecylia, itchy: reproducible?     * Request for review: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/trac/...

* Need comments in https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82 (add PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT)

== Actions ==

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== Interesting links ==

== Reading group ==

* We will discuss "Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes" on June 23         * https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3473604.3474559         * 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 2022-06-09 Last week:     - reviews     - opened MR for gotapdance library to redirect log output         - https://github.com/refraction-networking/gotapdance/pull/89/files     - finished getting conjure registrations working in a local test environment This week:     - continued work on conjure PT     - continue snowflake maintenance tasks Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-06-09     Last week:         - prepared information for snowflake bridge funding report for May 2022     Next week:         - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63     Help with:

meskio: 2022-06-02     Last week:             - use systemd to run bridgedb (team#72)             - update debian package for snowflake (snowflake#40143)             - don't use entropy in snowflake tests (snowflake!96)             - contact cymru about their builtin bridges, as they have an old version of obfs4proxy     Next week:             - start working on gettor (rdsys#105)

Shelikhoo: 2022-06-09    Last Week:      - [Merge Request] Add Distributed Snowflake Server Support (snowflake!87) <- awaiting/blocked      - [Merge Request] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (Javascript ver.) (snowflake-webext!29) <- awaiting/blocked      - [Merge Request] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...) (snowflake!95) <- awaiting/blocked         - [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) <- awaiting/blocked          - [Research & Discussion] Discussion about the possibility of adding PT support to V2Ray to serve the role of HTTPT (https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/82)         - [Security Research & Analysis] *!#/Confidential/#!* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/ux/research/-/issues/84#note_2811303         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: Use systemd unit services to run the daemons https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/bridgedb-admin/-/merge_req...         - [Merge Request Review] Draft: API to update dynamic bridges https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/41    Next Week:           - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)           - [Research & Coding] WebSocket + CDN Based Probe Control Connection Forwarder (shelikhoo/LogCollectorAncillary#3)           - [Investigate] China "Anti-Fraud" Webpage Redirection Censorship (censorship-analysis#40026): update the research based on updated ooni result

Itchy Onion: 2022-06-09     Last week:         - continue working on snowflake !93 (add tests)         - ongoing debugging s28 issue 81 (race conditions in broker)     This week:         - ongoing debugging s28 issues 81, there seems to be another issue         - taking over testing snowflake in s28 because the original group couldn't run snowflake