Hi,
Here are the meetup notes from the last saturday.
Thanks everyone!
Gus
# Tor Relay Operator Meetup - October 21, 2023
Duration: 1 hour
Participants: 42
## Agenda
- (Update) Tor in Turkmenistan:
We still need more obfs4 bridges on residential connections and obfs4 port
8080, 80, 443 or 6667
https://forum.torproject.org/t/tor-relays-help-turkmens-to-bypass-internet-censorship-run-an-obfs4-bridge/7002
- WebTunnel PT is available on Tor Browser 13
https://forum.torproject.org/t/call-for-testers-webtunnel-a-new-way-to-bypass-censorship-with-tor-browser/9855
- Tor Hackweek (November 6th to November 9th):
- Announcement:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/2023-August/003675.html
- Projects: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/hackweek/-/issues
- (Update) Tor on Universities: https://toruniversity.eff.org/
- Meta-proposal for new policies:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/blob/master/001-community-relay-operator-process.md
- Code of Conduct update:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/policies/-/issues/7
- Contactinfo proposal:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/relays/-/issues/71
- 0.4.7.x exit traffic notice:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2023-October/021357.html
- We don't actually know if anybody running an exit on 0.4.7 has seen this
drop -- so if you have or have not, let us know!
## Notes
- We discussed the impact of more relays per IP address, where the growth in
family size has led to huge microdescriptors, which is a problem on iOS because
of memory space limitations. In general the network team people have been
trying to avoid new relay features in C-Tor, in hopes to wait for Arti relay
functionality to be ready and then it will be more fun to add features. One
proposal we might want to do in C-Tor before that future arrives is:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/HEAD/proposals/321-happy-families.md
- Relay operator meetup at 37C3 (December 2023)?
We are thinking of a Tor talk submission to 37C3 too. CFP is open. Leibi can
organize it. We have this ticket to track Tor activities at 37C3:
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/community/outreach/-/issues/40051
- Would the ContactInfo requirement proposal break existing tooling (nusenu),
is the new text field a separate proposal?
Nusenu would need to adapt their tooling, yes; the new text field would be
included in the technical spec which we'd would work later on and would land in
the torspec repository where all our other changes on the protocol/tor core
parts are tracked -- [GeKo]
- Spamcop (or Katie Holly) is sending me lots of e-mails claiming my Tor exit
is an open mail proxy. Is this even possible? I am using Nusenu's Ansible role.
Forward them to /dev/null. If you're having issues, please contact the
tor-relays mailing list.
Over the years there have been automated tools that send out "helpful" emails
like this. Often they aren't actually based on reality. What they might mean by
'open mail proxy' could be anything. For example, maybe they received some
webmail connections.
- Would the residental bridges for Turkmenistan need to be long-lived? or would
it be fine to run one for just a month or two.
Running an obfs4 bridge for .tm actually only lasts about a week or so these
days. that is, you run it, people get told about it, they tell more people,
after 3 or 6 or 8 days the wrong person has hearrd of it and it gets blocked.
The censors in TM also inspect the traffic. If one IP is receiving "a lot"
(some hundreds GBs) of Internet traffic, they will block your IP.
- Translation of technical documents:
In the Tor Project we are adding more and more documentation for translation.
But our translators are not experts, and many times they get confused when
translating. If you speak languages other than English, we welcome an attentive
eye on our translations. Our translations are done in
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/ now. A big documentation is at
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/support-portal/ -
https://support.torproject.org - also some relay documentaiton at
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/tor/community-portal/
emmapeel[@]torproject.org / #tor-l10n:matrix.org (tor-l10n - irc.oftc.net)
State of the Onion 2023:
Tor "State of the Onion" talks by the various Tor teams will be in two pieces
this year: Nov 29 for the core Tor teams, and Dec 6ish for the Tor community
projects -- Globaleaks, Onionshare, Guardian, Tails, etc
Video/comms suggestion:
- gather all of the Tor talks into one easily-found place. Roger's talks are
great but they are scattered around the internet! Tor should collect them all
in one place.
The next Relay Operator Meetup will happen in November.
On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:37:14PM -0300, gus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Reminder: The Tor relay operator meetup is today and it's starting in
> ~25 minutes
