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

[Cecylia Bocovich]

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


# Reputation-based bridge distribution

- Continued Tor Browser integration work

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/116

- Debugged some issues with the lox distributor deployment

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/tpa/team/-/issues/41406
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/40
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/42
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/lox/-/issues/43


# Snowflake

- Fixed excessive logs of closed connections at the Snowflake proxy

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40310

- Released version 2.8.1 of Snowflake

- Provided further review of the SQS rendezvous method

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/merge_requests/214#note_2980680


# Domain Fronting Alternatives

- Looked for cloud providers that offer domain fronting

- Looked for good potential front domains for working cloud providers