Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-06-22-15.57.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, June 29 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: meskio
Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC
(channel is logged while meetings are in progress)
This week's Facilitator: Shelikhoo
== 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?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
\* Sponsor 96 <\-\- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh
\* 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 ==
Last week: (June 15th)
\* Documents for bridge operators about how to run a webtunnel bridge \(Updated Jun 15\)
\* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel/-/merge_requests/11
\* we'll encourage bridge operators to run webtunnel bridges in the next Relay operators meetup \(June 24th\)
\* we'll have the documentation of how to run a webtunnel bridge in the README for now and move it in the future to the community portal
\* shell will prepare a presentation for the relay operators meeting
\* Conjure user feedback: https://forum.torproject.net/t/call-for-testers-help-the-tor-project-to-test-conjure-on-tor-browser-alpha/7815
\* Need help: https://forum.torproject.net/t/call-for-testers-help-the-tor-project-to-test-conjure-on-tor-browser-alpha/7815/14?u=gus
This week: (June 22nd)
\* support non\-public ORPort bridges by ignoring the running flag in rdsys
\* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/134
\* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/154
== Actions ==
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== Interesting links ==
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== 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 2023-06-15
Last week:
- mostly finished reproducible builds of lox client and js bindings
- Draft: WIP: Bug 40852 Reproducible build of lox library and js bindings (!715) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build · GitLab
- debugged and wrote a patch for the cert error on older versions of android
- Let's Encrypt "DST Root X3" root expiration affects old Android clients accessing broker (#40087) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- more work on shadow simulations for snowflake
This week:
- tidy up and share shadow simulations guide for PTs
- Lox tor browser integration
- conjure maintenance
Needs help with:
dcf: 2023-06-22
Last week:
- snowflake CDN bookkeeping Changes · Snowflake costs · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
- merged the IP_BIND_PORT_NO_ADDRESS patch in snowflake-server Use IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT when dialing the ORPort on Linux (!148) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab, thanks itchyonion
- talked about AV blocking some snowflake proxy connections, apparently triggered by the client_ip parameter Avast blocking connection to 02.snowflake.torproject.net on Chrome (#85) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake WebExtension · GitLab
Next week:
- open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors is nonzero Deploy snowflake-server for QueuePacketConn buffer reuse fix (#40260) (#40262) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- parent: Improve bug discovery process (#40267) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- open issue to disable /debug endpoint on snowflake broker
Help with:
meskio: 2023-06-22
Last week:
- work on i18n support in rdsys (rdsys#11)
- remove salmon code from rdsys (rdsys!132)
- ignore running flag in bridges (rdsys!134)
- test a bridge without ORPort reachable and AssumeReachable and see it appearing in the bridge descriptors (rdsis#154)
- update S3 existence file only if needed so archive torrent doesn't change (rdsys!133)
Next week:
- test i18n support in rdsys (rdsys#11)
- clean up my issue queue
Shelikhoo: 2023-06-22
Last Week:
- [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64) (stalled)
- [Research] HTTPT Planning Add HTTPT as a pluggable transport to Tor Browser (#1) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / HTTPT · GitLab
- webtunnel document for proxy operator(Done!)
- Presentation "Call for webtunnel bridges" @ Relay Operator Meetup
Next Week/TODO:
- logcollector alert system <- immediate todo
- [Research] WebTunnel planning (Continue)
- Try to find a place to host another vantage point
- Snowflake Performance Analysis
onyinyang: 2023-06-22
Last week:
- First changing the vectors in the bridge_table to maps with lookup by bridge fingerprint
This week:
- Continuing with changing the vectors to maps and looking into a more reasonable way of storing Lox library data structures:
- Ensure Lox bridge table persists in case of catastrophic failure (#2) · Issues · onyinyang / lox · GitLab
- Make Lox Bridge Table more robust (#3) · Issues · onyinyang / lox · GitLab
- Working on Lox presentation for PETS (to include some details about Tor integration)
If time:
- start thinking about metrics to add
(long term things were discussed at the meeting!):
Riseup Pad
- brainstorming grouping strategies for Lox buckets (of bridges) and gathering context on how types of bridges are distributed/use in practice
Question: What makes a bridge usable for a given user, and how can we encode that to best ensure we're getting the most appropriate resources to people?
1. Are there some obvious grouping strategies that we can already consider?
e.g., by pt, by bandwidth (lower bandwidth bridges sacrificed to open-invitation buckets?), by locale (to be matched with a requesting user's geoip or something?)
2. Does it make sense to group 3 bridges/bucket, so trusted users have access to 3 bridges (and untrusted users have access to 1)? More? Less?
Itchy Onion: 2023-06-08
Last week:
- fixed snowflake pipeline due to outdated Debian image
- continue working on rdsys#56 implementation. Still need to do the following:
- finish up computing bridge distribution in Kraken
- does it have to be deterministic?
- does the disproportion have to be strictly followed
- finish writing tests
- refactor code because some functions are getting extremely long
- what to do with stencil package?
This week:
- review MRs
- continue working on rdsys#56 implementation. Still need to do the following:
- fixed a problem with vanilla bridges not being added properly to the database
- still working on tests
- adding a migaration patch (Consider persistent storage of bridge information (#56) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / rdsys · GitLab)
hackerncoder: 2023-04-20
last week:
- (py-)ooni-exporter torsf (snowflake)
- (py-)ooni-exporter web_connectivity
Next week:
- work on "bridgetester"?
- how does Iran block bridges?