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Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, April 10 16:00 UTC
Facilitator: meskio
^^^(See Facilitator Queue at tail)
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:Development · Boards · Anti-censorship · GitLab
* 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 projects, we are working on:
* All needs review tickets:
* Merge requests · Anti-censorship · GitLab
* Project 158 <-- meskio working on it
* Issues · Anti-censorship · GitLab
== Announcements ==
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== Discussion ==
Apr 10 New:
== Actions ==
== Interesting links ==
\* https://opencollective.com/censorship-circumvention/projects/snowflake-daily-operations/updates/2025-march-update
== 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): 2025-04-03
Last week:
- fixed caching for snowflake shadow integration tests (snowflake#40457)
- fixed rust installation bug in shadow CI tests (snowflake#40456)
- added option in conjure pt to switch between three supported transports (conjure#10)
- set up a test conjure registration server
This week:
- support conjure work
- follow up on snowflake rendezvous failures
- reduce/remove use of mutexes for broker metrics (snowflake#40458)
- take a look at potential snowflake orbot bug
- [BUG] 20% CPU overhead in kindness mode · Issue #1183 · guardianproject/orbot-android · GitHub
dcf: 2025-04-10
Last week:
- commented on snowflake option renaming Improve command line option grouping and readability (!544) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · 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
Help with:
meskio: 2024-04-03
Last week:
- create a container for bridgestrap
- investigate why email is not going out in gettor/email distributor (tpa/team#42109)
- lyrebird: support dual stack IPv4/v6 in non-linux (lyrebird#40023)
- update obfs4-bridge docker image (docker-obfs4-bridge#21)
Next week:
- steps towards a rdsys in containers (rdsys#219)
Shelikhoo: 2024-04-10
Last Week:
- [Testing] Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( Draft: Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (!315) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab ) testing environment setup/research
- Snowflake Staging Server (cont.) Discussion(Setup Snowflake Staging Server (#42080) · Issues · The Tor Project / TPA / TPA team · GitLab)
- Snowfalke Staging Server Experiment
- Vantage monitoring
- Merge request reviews
Next Week/TODO:
- Merge request reviews
- [Testing] Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( Draft: Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for Snowflake rev2 (!315) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab ) improvements
- Snowfalke Staging Server Experiment
onyinyang: 2025-04-03
Last week(s):
- Finished AMP Cache <> Conjure integration \o/
- Started work on Decoy routing for Conjure
Next week:
- Finish up Decoy routing for Conjure
- review Tor browser Lox integration
- add TTL cache to lox MR for duplicate responses:
As time allows:
- Work on outstanding milestone issues:
- key rotation automation
Later:
pending decision on abandoning lox wasm in favour of some kind of FFI? https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/43096):
\- add pref to handle timing for pubkey checks in Tor browser
\- add trusted invitation logic to tor browser integration:
- improve metrics collection/think about how to show Lox is working/valuable
- sketch out Lox blog post/usage notes for forum
\(long term things were discussed at the meeting\!\):
\- 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?
theodorsm: 2025-04-10
Last weeks:
- fixing bugs in covert-dtls, only mimic DTLS 1.2
- Running proxy with covert-dtls
- MR covert-dtls: Add covert-dtls to proxy and client (!448) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
Next weeks:
- Write instructions on how to configure covert-dtls with snowflake client (are we going to run a user test?)
- Fix merge conflicts in MR (Add covert-dtls to proxy and client (!448) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab).
- Condensing thesis into paper
Help with:
- Test stability of covert-dtls in snowflake
Facilitator Queue:
meskio onyinyang shelikhoo
1. First available staff in the Facilitator Queue will be the facilitator for the meeting
2. After facilitating the meeting, the facilitator will be moved to the tail of the queue