Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in September 2023.
# Reputation-based bridge distribution
- Worked on deploying the lox distributor for testing purposes - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/167
- Discussed rdsys resource API - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/merge_requests/157...
- Dependency updates
# Conjure
- Wrote some next steps for Conjure work - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/operations/proposals/-/issues/51
# Snowflake
- Helped recover from problem with cdn.sstatic.net front domain - Investigated alternative domain fronts - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - Looked into OONI and Orbot handling of bridge linse - https://github.com/guardianproject/orbot/issues/983 - https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/1337 - Implemented a feature in snowflake to randomly select from a pool of front domains - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Discussed a weird increase in snowflake client polls - https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/0... - Due to bridge outage: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/0...
- Followed up on reports of snowflake fingerprinting in Russia - Due to out-of-date OONI probe clients - https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2533
- Dependency updates