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

- Discussed rdsys resource API

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- Update API to identify untested/working/not working resources (!157) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / rdsys · GitLab

- Dependency updates

# Conjure

- Wrote some next steps for Conjure work
   - Sign in · GitLab

# Snowflake

- Helped recover from problem with cdn.sstatic.net front domain
   - Investigated alternative domain fronts
     - Is there a better moat/snowflake SNI than cdn.sstatic.net? (#40068) · Issues · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab
   - Looked into OONI and Orbot handling of bridge linse
     - Use the snowflake bridge lines returned by the circumvention map API when using the "Ask Tor" feature · Issue #983 · guardianproject/orbot · GitHub
     - fix: update Snowflake domain front by cohosh · Pull Request #1337 · ooni/probe-cli · GitHub
   - Implemented a feature in snowflake to randomly select from a pool of front domains
     - Randomly select front domain from comma-separated list (!182) · Merge requests · The Tor Project / Anti-censorship / Pluggable Transports / Snowflake · GitLab

- Discussed a weird increase in snowflake client polls
   - [anti-censorship-team] Spike in client polls from Snowflake broker metrics
   - 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   - Due to out-of-date OONI probe clients
   - Filter out test results from old probe-engine versions · Issue #2533 · ooni/probe · GitHub

- Dependency updates
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