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<h2>April, 2003</h2> |
<h2>April, 2003</h2> |
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<a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top"> |
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DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>, |
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news.com.com, April 17th. |
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(also online at |
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<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm"> |
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BusinessWeek.com</a>) |
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"The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research |
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Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating |
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system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons." |
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Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut. |
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Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers. |
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Goes on to say: |
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"Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception |
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to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project |
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meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built... |
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"In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said." |
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<a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172"> |
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DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>, |
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SlashDot, April 17th. |
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SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding canellation. |
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Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the |
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project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania) |
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without notice or justification. |
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<a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2"> |
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DARPA Cancellation</a>, |
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MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003 |
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Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding: |
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"It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program |
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with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons, |
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effective today, without any warning..." |
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<a href="http://www.robtv.com"> |
<a href="http://www.robtv.com"> |
TV appearance</a>, |
TV appearance</a>, |
CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003 |
CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003 |
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Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>, |
Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>, |
CNET News.com, April 11, 2003 |
CNET News.com, April 11, 2003 |
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The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest realease will |
"The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will |
eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing |
eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing |
security experts for more than three decades." |
security experts for more than three decades." |
Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest. |
Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest. |
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goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed |
goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed |
is going into the OpenBSD source tree..." |
is going into the OpenBSD source tree..." |
Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3. |
Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3. |
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<a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html"> |
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DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>. |
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The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about |
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the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding: |
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"During the last few decades, the government's approach has been |
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to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations |
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specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer |
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industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information |
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Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose |
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computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines, |
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while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are |
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put into service." |
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"Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium |
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OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group |
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propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly |
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share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security |
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features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just |
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for the military and other high-security organizations. The |
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government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized |
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computers with security features." |
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