[tor-project] Cecylia's monthly status report, November 2022

[Cecylia Bocovich]

Hi everyone,

This is my status report for contract work done in November 2022.

# Conjure development

I've made some progress on deploying a Tor PT for Conjure[0] in alpha 
versions of Tor Browser[1], such as:

* allowing client args to passed in as SOCKS args
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/21

* helping the client recover and retry if the phantom connection fails 
due to high station load
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/19

* setting up safe log scrubbing at the bridge
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/12

* setting up a domain front for client registrations
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/issues/18

There's a little more work to do in getting the domain front set up, but 
the tor browser integration is ready to submit for review. Test builds 
are available at https://people.torproject.org/~cohosh/conjure-torbrowser/

# Bridge reputation system

This month I started work on integrating a reputation-based bridge 
distribution system into our ecosystem. The month started with an 
analysis of the system and integration details of Lox[2], and work on a 
test integration is underway[3][4][5].

# Snowflake web extension

We've had a lot of volunteer contributions to the web extension this 
month. I reviewed and merged these requests. I also worked on the following:

* Finished fixing up localization (thanks emmapeel!)
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/61
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/62
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/63
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake-webext/-/issues/66

[0] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure
[1] 
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/conjure/-/milestones/1
[2] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/105
[3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-wasm
[4] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-distributor
[5] https://gitlab.torproject.org/cohosh/lox-server