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

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#note_2948162 

- 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/snowflake/-/issues/40068 
  - 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/snowflake/-/merge_requests/182 

- Discussed a weird increase in snowflake client polls
- https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/000307.html - Due to bridge outage: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/anti-censorship-team/2023-September/000311.html 

- 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  - Due to out-of-date OONI probe clients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
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