[tor-project] cohosh's monthly status report, November 2023

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in November 2023.

# Reputation-based bridge distribution

We deployed a Lox distributor for rdsys in production for testing 
purposes. The distributor does not currently receive an allocation of 
bridges from the distributor as we are currently testing the invitation 
and reputation functionality of the Lox server. Most of the work done 
this month has been on continuing client-side integration and finding 
and fixing bugs with the distributor.

- Coordinated with applications team on client-side integration
   https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42036

- Worked on squashing lox distributor bugs
   https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/40

# Snowflake

- Caught a bug in the log scrubber
 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40306

- Released version 2.8.0 of Snowflake
 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/releases/v2.8.0

- Dependency management

- Reviewed SQS rendezvous merge request
 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/26151

# Conjure

- Conjure bridge maintenance

- Updated bridge configuration to allow connections from a new station
 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/39

- Investigated a potential issue with the front domain used for registration
 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/38#note_2963315

- Met with Conjure developers and talked about the deployment of more 
Conjure stations

# Domain Fronting Alternatives

- Looked for cloud providers that offer domain fronting

- Looked for good potential front domains for working cloud providers