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

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

# Reputation-based bridge distribution

- Deployed the lox distributor in production
  - Add lox distributor type with no allocated bridges (#167) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / rdsys · GitLab

- Updated the rdsys survival guide with information on how to deploy new frontend services

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- Rdsys Survival Guide · Wiki · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Team · GitLab

- 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
  - New Firefox CSP blocks WebAssembly.instantiate() (#34) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / lox · GitLab

# Snowflake

- Worked with OONI to update domain front used for Snowflake tests
  - fix: update Snowflake domain front by cohosh · Pull Request #1337 · ooni/probe-cli · GitHub

- Looked into the blocking of foursquare.com and other potential fronts

- Changed proxy stats and metrics to report throughput during the last hour
  - Proxy hourly stats did not actually happen during that hour (#40302) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  - Process and properly log connection closure stats (!203) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
  - Update prometheus metrics to use new EventOnProxyStats (!204) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab

- Reviewed Snowflake outbound proxy support
  - Snowflake needs outbound proxy support (#40069) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab

- Found and fixed a regression in the Snowflake client caused by supporting multiple domain fronts
  - Check if multiple front domains argument is empty (!201) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
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