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Here are our meeting logs:

http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2025/tor-meeting.2025-10-30-16.00.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship
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Next meeting: Thursday, November 6 16:00 UTC
Facilitator:onyinyang

^^^(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:meskio

== 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 projects, 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
                * Project 158 <-- meskio working on it
                        * 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/issues/?label_name%5B%5D=Project%20158


== Announcements ==


== Discussion ==

        * 

== Actions ==

        * Remove webtunnel setuid script in 1 weeks.(decrease this by one every 
week)

== Interesting links ==

        * 

== 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): 2025-10-30
        Last week:
            - responded to Abhishek about multipath routing to Tor bridge 
research
            - discussed Shadow simulations with UCSC students researching 
enumeration attacks
            - updated snowflake proxy README (snowflake#40290)
            - wrote a proxy churn patch for the snowflake broker 
(snowflake#40494)
            - commented on webtunnel sni-spoofing interface
        Next week:
            - research snowflake enumeration attacks (snowflake#40396)
            - follow up on snowflake rendezvous failures (snowflake#40447)
            - revisit conjure integration with lyrebird
            - take a look at potential snowflake orbot bug
                - https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot-android/issues/1183
        

dcf: 2025-10-30
        Last week:
                - made snowflake-graphs use SQLite as intermediate data 
representation rather than CSV 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/snowflake-graphs/-/merge_requests/3
                - fixed a bug with snowflake-graphs undercounting coverage for 
certain rarely occurring levels of factors 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/snowflake-graphs/-/issues/3#note_3281215
                - opened an issue for coverage=2.00 in snowflake-stats 
descriptors during a time when 2 brokers were running simultaneously 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/dcf/snowflake-graphs/-/issues/5
        Next week:
                - open issue to have snowflake-client log whenever KCPInErrors 
is nonzero 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40262#note_2886018
                        - parent: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40267
Help with:

meskio: 2024-10-30
    Last week:
        - SOTO recording
        - grant planning
        - multi-front support in meek (lyrebird#40027)
    Next week:
        - AFK


Shelikhoo: 2024-10-23
    Last Week:
         - [Testing] Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for 
Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/315
 ) testing environment setup/research
        - SOTO slide
        - merge request reviews
    Next (working) Week/TODO:
        - Merge request reviews
        - [Deployment]Unreliable+unordered WebRTC data channel transport for 
Snowflake rev2 (cont.)( 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/315
 ) Building custom Tor Browser with patch applied
        - SOTO recordingh

 

onyinyang: 2025-10-30
        Last week(s):
                - Troubleshooting conjure not connecting in China
                        - updating the fronts led to different connection 
issues, looking into these in more detail
                        - differing results connecting to conjure locally vs. 
from vantage point
                        - investigating issues with the conjure 
authors/maintainers
                - Monitoring email profiler for rdsys #129
                - Monitoring rdsys #rdsys #249 
                - Presented at York University
                - Prepared (and submitting today) talk proposal for Splintercon
                - Outside of Tor: submitted MR to change Lox to rely on 
lox-extensions rather than lox-library (this is an updated anonymous credential 
implementation but functionality is the same)
                
Next week:
    - Continue troubleshooting conjure not connecting in China
    - Finish up debugging rdsys#129 and rdsys#249 hopefully (take 3? 4?) 
    - Continue looking into bridgestrap#47
      Switch back to some of these:
          As time allows:
              - Lox still seems to be filling up the disk on the rdsys-test 
server despite changes made to delete old entries, look into what's going wrong
               Blog post for conjure: 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/46
              - review Tor browser Lox integration              
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/merge_requests/1300
              - add TTL cache to lox MR for duplicate responses:
                
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/merge_requests/305

                - 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:
                        
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42974
                - 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: 2025-06-12
                Last weeks:
                        - Applying for funding from NLnet to implement DTLS 1.3 
in Pion. Got through the first round.
                        - Writing paper for FOCI: continuation of master thesis 
about reducing distinguishability of DTLS in Snowflake by implementing 
covert-dtls, further analysis of collected browser fingerprint and stability 
test of covert-dtls in snowflake proxies. Draft: https://theodorsm.net/FOCI25
                        - Key takeaways: 
                                * covert-dtls is stable when mimicking DTLS 1.2 
handshakes, while the randomization approach— though more resistant to 
fingerprinting — tends to be less stable. 
                                * Chrome webextensions are more unstable than 
standalone proxies
                                * covert-dtls should be integrated in Snowflake 
proxies as they produce the ClientHello messages during the DTLS handshake.
                                * Chrome randomizes the order of extension list.
                                * Firefox uses DTLS 1.3 by default in WebRTC.
                                * A prompt adoption of DTLS 1.3 in both 
Snowflake and our fingerprint-resistant library is needed to keep up with 
browsers
                                * The evolution of browsers’ fingerprints had 
no noticeable effect on Snowflake’s number of daily users over the last year.
                                * Even with a sharp drop in the amount of 
proxies, it does not seem to affect the number of Snowflake users. 
                                * Browser extensions make Snowflake resistant 
to ClientHello fingerprinting.
                                * Standalone proxies can serve more Snowflake 
clients per volunteer than webextensions.
                                * We need metrics on which types of proxies are 
actually being matched and successfully used by clients. 
                Next weeks:
                        - Getting paper camera ready.
                        - Fix merge conflicts in MR 
(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/448).
                Help with:
                        - Should we do user testing of covert-dtls?
                        
                        

Facilitator Queue:
        onyinyang shelikhoo meskio 
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




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