Hey everyone!
Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2023/tor-meeting.2023-11-09-16.00.html
And our meeting pad:
Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, Nov 16 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: onyinyang
== 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:
*Home · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab
* Past meeting notes can be found at:
* The tor-project Archives
* Tickets that need reviews: from sponsors, we are working on:
* All needs review tickets:
*Merge requests · Anti-censorship · GitLab
* Sponsor 96 <-- meskio, shell, onyinyang, cohosh
*Sponsor 96: Rapid Expansion of Access to the Uncensored Internet through Tor in China, Hong Kong, & Tibet · The Tor Project · GitLab
* Sponsor 150 <-- meskio working on it
*Issues · Anti-censorship · GitLab
== Announcements ==
== Discussion ==
\* azure will close domain fronting January 8
\* https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/33#note_2963884
\* Maybe, move to use a private pad?
\* we can use the 'read\-only' link from the riseup pads as a public link and share the editing link with the people that participates on the meetings\.
\* meskio will set up for next week\.
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
\* https://forum.torproject.org/t/snowflake-daily-operations-october-2023-update/10106
\* FOCI & PETS 2023 videos
\* Running a high\-performance pluggable transports Tor bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkUQsAJB-bg&list=PLWSQygNuIsPc8bOJ2szOblMK4i6T79S1m&index=5
\* Lox: Protecting the Social Graph in Bridge Distribution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT2PkFs-61A&list=PLWSQygNuIsPeSo_mDoX9MPrVDZEaq_umi&index=19
\* others https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/307
== Reading group ==
\* We will discuss "On Precisely Detecting Censorship Circumvention in Real\-World Networks" on November 9
\* https://www.robgjansen.com/publications/precisedetect-ndss2024.html
\* 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): 2023-11-09
Last week:
- conjure bridge maintenance
- caught a bug in safelog library
- Log scrubber fails to scrub messages with multiple space-separated IP addresses (#40306) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- caught problem with domain front in conjure
- 503 error when contacting registration server (#38) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / conjure · GitLab
This week:
- lox tor browser UX integration
- lox distributor testing
- look into alternative domain fronting providers
Needs help with:
dcf: 2023-11-09
Last week:
- revised encapsulation.ReadData redesign to return an error in the case of a short buffer Have encapsulation.ReadData read into a provided buffer (!154) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- security upgrade to tor 0.4.8.8 on snowflake bridges Upgrade tor on snowflake bridges to 0.4.8.8 for TROVE 2023 004 (#40305) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
- sent emails to make contacts for uTLS-like fingerprint obfuscation in pion/dtls
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
Before EOY 2023:
- move snowflake-02 to new VM
Help with:
meskio: 2023-11-09
Last week:
- update the teams wikis
- explore pad backup options (hackweek#16)
- rdsys accept multiple config files, to support separating secrets (rdsys#92)
- fix onionsproutsbot after server upgrade (onionsproutsbot#55)
- expore why polyanthum disk is filling up (tpa/team#41379)
Next week:
- experiment with testing bridges more frequently by bridgestrap (bridgestrap#39)
Shelikhoo: 2023-11-09
Last Week:
- Work on snowflake performance improvement (WIP): Files · dev-speedwithudp · shelikhoo / Snowflake · GitLab
- Hackweek: wiki replacement considerations wiki replacement considerations (#26) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Hackweek · GitLab
- Hackweek: Collaborative editing Collaborative editing (#16) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Hackweek · GitLab
- Merge request reviews
Next Week/TODO:
- Write Tor Spec for Armored URL (continue)
- Work on snowflake performance improvement (WIP): Files · dev-speedwithudp · shelikhoo / Snowflake · GitLab
- Merge request reviews
onyinyang: 2023-11-09
Last week(s):
- Continued work on Lox telegram bot
- Hackweek: Docs for Lox Improve Lox Documentation (#20) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Hackweek · GitLab
This week:
- Hackweek: Docs for Lox Improve Lox Documentation (#20) · Issues · The Tor Project / Community / Hackweek · GitLab
- Publish Lox crates to crates.io
\(long term things were discussed at the meeting\!\):https://pad.riseup.net/p/tor-ac-community-azaleas-room-keep
\- 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?
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