Hi! This is my status report for contract work done in October 2023.
# Reputation-based bridge distribution
- Deployed the lox distributor in production - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/rdsys/-/issues/167
- Updated the rdsys survival guide with information on how to deploy new frontend services - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/Survival-Guid...
- Met with the UX team to discuss Lox UX
- Reviewed the addition of prometheus metrics to the lox distributor
- Continued Tor Browser integration with Lox client - Had to rebase and work around the new Firefox CSP - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/34
# Snowflake
- Worked with OONI to update domain front used for Snowflake tests - https://github.com/ooni/probe-cli/pull/1337
- Looked into the blocking of foursquare.com and other potential fronts
- Changed proxy stats and metrics to report throughput during the last hour - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf... - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Reviewed Snowflake outbound proxy support - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
- Found and fixed a regression in the Snowflake client caused by supporting multiple domain fronts - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowf...
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