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1.18 deraadt 29: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.16 louis 31:
1.104 louis 32: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
33:
34: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.105 ! louis 35: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
! 36: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
! 37: </strong></font><br>
! 38:
! 39: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
! 40: and finds much cause for optimism.
! 41: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
! 42: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
! 43: abates, it's not really paranoia.
! 44: <p>
! 45:
! 46: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.104 louis 47: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/jun2000/junopens.htm">Security
48: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
49: </strong></font><br>
50:
51: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
52: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
53: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
54:
1.85 louis 55: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
56:
1.91 louis 57: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.99 louis 58: href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
59: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
60: </strong></font><br>
61:
62: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
63: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
64: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
65: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
66: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
67: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
68: reading for all system administrators.
69: <p>
70:
71: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.100 louis 72: href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
73: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
74: </strong></font><br>
75:
76: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
77: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
78: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
79: conditions.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.95 louis 83: href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
84: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
85: </strong></font><br>
86:
87: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
88: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
89: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
90: approaches to security.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.92 louis 94: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
95: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
96: </strong></font><br>
97:
98: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
99: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 100: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 101: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
102: with embedded OpenBSD.
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1.91 louis 106: href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
107: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
108: </strong></font><br>
109:
110: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
111: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
112: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
113: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
114: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
115: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
116: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
117: creep are delivering the wrong message.
118: <p>
119:
1.85 louis 120: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 121: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
122: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
123: </strong></font><br>
124:
125: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
126: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
127: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
128: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
129: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
130: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
131: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
132: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
133: defects in their products.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 137: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
138: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
139: </strong></font><br>
140:
141: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
142: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
143: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
144: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
145: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
146: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
147: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
148: <p>
149:
150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 151: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
152: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
153: </strong></font><br>
154:
155: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
156: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
157: <p>
158:
159: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 160: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
161: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
162: </strong></font><br>
163:
164: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
165: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
166: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
167: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 171: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
172: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
173: </strong></font><br>
174:
175: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
176: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
177: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
178: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
179: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
180:
1.78 deraadt 181: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 182:
1.77 deraadt 183: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
184: <a
1.83 louis 185: href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
186: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color=4669ad><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
187: April 20, 2000
188: </strong></font><br>
189:
190: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
191: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
192: OpenBSD.
193: <p>
194:
1.93 louis 195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
196: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
197: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
198: </strong></font><br>
199:
200: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
201: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
202: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
203: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
204: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
205: <p>
206:
1.83 louis 207: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
208: <a
209: href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
210: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.82 aaron 211: </strong></font><br>
212:
1.83 louis 213: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
214: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
215: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
216: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
217: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
218: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
219: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1.82 aaron 220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
223: <a
1.83 louis 224: href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
225: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.80 louis 226: </strong></font><br>
227:
1.83 louis 228: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
229: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
230: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.80 louis 231: <p>
232:
233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
234: <a
1.77 deraadt 235: href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
236: Bad Press</a>,
237: 32Bits Online, April 2000
238: </strong></font><br>
239:
240: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
241: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
242: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
243: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
244: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.78 deraadt 245: <p>
246:
247: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
248:
249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
250: <a
251: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
252: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
253: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
254: </strong></font><br>
255:
256: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
257: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
258: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
259: simply by reading the source code.
1.74 louis 260: <p>
261:
1.71 louis 262: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 263: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
264: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
265: </strong></font><br>
266:
267: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
268: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
269: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
270: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
271: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
272: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
273: <p>
274:
275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.81 louis 276: Open source software: Ready for Credit Union Primetime, March 6, 2000
277: </strong></font><br>
278:
279: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
280: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
281: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
282: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
283: written for credit union IS managers. Unfortunately, it's on the
284: subscription-only portion of <a href="http://www.cuestechport.com/">CUES
285: Tech Port</a>, a web site for member credit unions.
286: <p>
287:
288: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.71 louis 289: <a
1.90 louis 290: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
291: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
292: </strong></font><br>
293:
294: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
295: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
296: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
297: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
298: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
299: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
300: will the open source world react, he asks.
301: <p>
302:
303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
304: <a
1.76 louis 305: href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
306: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.71 louis 307: </strong></font><br>
308:
309: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
310: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
311: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 312: competitive advantage.
1.71 louis 313: <p>
314:
1.69 deraadt 315: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 316:
317: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
318: <a
319: href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
320: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
321: </strong></font><br>
322:
323: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
324: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
325: platforms without good crypto support.
326: <p>
327:
1.48 louis 328: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 329: <a
330: href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
331: </strong></font><br>
332:
333: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
334: how to set up packet filtering with <a
335: href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipf&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&format=html">ipf</a>. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
336: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.60 louis 340: <a
1.64 louis 341: href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
342: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
343: </strong></font><br>
344:
345: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like <a
346: href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
347: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
348: "secure by default" installation.
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
352: <a
1.66 louis 353: href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000207E972">Three
354: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
355: </strong></font><br>
356:
357: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
358: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
359: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
360: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
361: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
362: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
363: <p>
364:
365: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
366: <a
1.83 louis 367: href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
368: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
369: </strong></font><br>
370:
371: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
372: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
373: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
374: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
375: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
376: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
377: <p>
378:
379: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
380: <a
1.64 louis 381: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
382: Information Security, February 2000
383: </strong></font><br>
384:
385: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 386: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
387: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 388: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
389: its reputation among security experts.
390: <p>
391:
392: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
393: <a
1.65 louis 394: href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
395: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
396: </strong></font><br>
397:
398: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
399: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
400: <p>
401:
1.69 deraadt 402: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
403:
1.65 louis 404: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
405: <a
1.88 louis 406: href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
407: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
408: </strong></font><br>
409:
410: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
411: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
412: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
413: the administrator is vigilant.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
417: <a
1.60 louis 418: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html">Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
419: </strong></font><br>
420:
421: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
422: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
423: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
424: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
425: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 429: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
430: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
431: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
432: </strong></font><br>
433:
434: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
435: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
436: and cryptography.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.53 louis 440: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/353999.asp?cp1=1">
441: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker</a>, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.57 louis 442: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 443:
444: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
445: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
446: <p>
447:
448: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 449: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
450: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
451: </strong></font><br>
452:
453: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
454: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
455: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
456: <p>
457:
458: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 459: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
460: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
461:
462: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
463: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
464: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
465: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
466: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
467:
468: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
469: <a
470: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
471: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
472: </strong></font><br>
473:
474: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
475: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
476: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
477:
478: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 479: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.57 louis 480: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 481:
482: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
483: in <a
484: href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
485: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 486: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.53 louis 487: <p>
488:
489: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 490: <A href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
491: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
492: January/February, 2000
1.57 louis 493: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 494:
1.58 louis 495: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.51 deraadt 496: <p>
497:
1.69 deraadt 498: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
499:
1.51 deraadt 500: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 501: <a
502: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
503: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
504: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.57 louis 505: </strong></font><br>
506:
1.58 louis 507: Kurt Seifried
508: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
509: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
510: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
511: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 512:
1.86 louis 513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
514: <a
1.96 louis 515: href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
516: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
517: </strong></font><br>
518:
519: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
520: <p>
521:
522: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
523: <a
1.86 louis 524: href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
525: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
526: </strong></font><br>
527:
528: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
529: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
530: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
531: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
532: <p>
533:
1.69 deraadt 534: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
535:
1.51 deraadt 536: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 537: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
538: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
539: </strong></font><br>
540:
541: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
542: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
543: <p>
544:
545: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.63 louis 546: <a
547: href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 548: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
549: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.57 louis 550: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 551:
552: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
553: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
554: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
555: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
556: right -- or at least strives to".
557: <p>
558:
1.61 louis 559: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
560: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
561: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
562: </strong></font><br>
563: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
564: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
565: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
566: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
567: <p>
568:
1.46 louis 569: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,
1.48 louis 570: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.57 louis 571: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 572:
573: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
574: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
575: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
576: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
577: <p>
578:
1.58 louis 579: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
580: <a
581: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
582: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
583: </strong></font><br>
584:
585: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
586: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
587: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
588:
1.70 louis 589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
590: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
591: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
592: </strong></font><br>
593:
594: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
595: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
596: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
597: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
598: <p>
599:
1.69 deraadt 600: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
601:
1.44 philen 602: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
603: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.57 louis 604: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 605:
606: Kurt Seifried
607: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
608: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
609: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
610: <p>
611:
1.41 louis 612: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread">Interview with The Cult of the Dead Cow</a>,
613: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.57 louis 614: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 615:
616: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
617: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
618:
1.37 louis 619: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,
620: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.57 louis 621: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 622:
623: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 624: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 625:
1.36 louis 626: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/11code.html">Easing on Software Exports Has Limits</a>,
627: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.57 louis 628: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 629:
630: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
631: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
632: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
633: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
634: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
635:
1.79 deraadt 636: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.netsec.net/press_100699.html">NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 637: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.57 louis 638: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 639:
1.36 louis 640: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
641: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 642:
1.38 louis 643: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 644: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
645: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.57 louis 646: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 647:
648: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
649: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
650:
1.69 deraadt 651: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
652:
1.30 deraadt 653: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.38 louis 654: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.57 louis 655: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 656:
657: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
658: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
659: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 660:
1.29 louis 661: <li><strong>
662: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 663: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.57 louis 664: </strong></font><br>
1.29 louis 665:
666: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
667: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 668: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
669: terminal:
1.29 louis 670: <blockquote>
671: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
672: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
673: <br>
674: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
675: </code>
676: </blockquote>
677: <p>
678:
1.16 louis 679: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 680: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990927hack.htm">Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call</a>, Infoworld, Sept. 27, 1999<br>
681: <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999
1.57 louis 682: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 683:
684: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
685: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 686: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 687: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 688:
689: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 690: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.57 louis 691: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 692:
693: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
694: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
695: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
696: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
697: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 698: operating system in the world."
1.19 louis 699: <p>
700:
1.43 louis 701: <li><strong>
702: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.57 louis 703: </strong></font><br>
1.16 louis 704:
705: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
706: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
707: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 708: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
709: to the archives, free registration required.
1.16 louis 710: <p>
711:
1.1 deraadt 712: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 louis 713: <a
714: href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
715: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
716: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 717:
1.57 louis 718: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
719: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
720: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
721: Melbourne.<p>
722:
723: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
724: <a
725: href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
726: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
727: </strong></font><br>
728:
729: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 730:
731: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 732: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 733: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.57 louis 734: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 735:
1.23 louis 736: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
737: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
738: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
739: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
740: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 741: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 742:
743: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 744: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
745: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.57 louis 746: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 747:
748: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
749: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
750: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
751: installation.
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 louis 755: <a
756: href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
757: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
758: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
759:
760: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
761: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
762:
1.69 deraadt 763: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
764:
1.57 louis 765: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 766: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 767: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.57 louis 768: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 769:
770: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
771: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 772: of OpenBSD.
1.12 louis 773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 776: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 777: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.57 louis 778: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 779:
780: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
781: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 782: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
783: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
784: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
785: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
786: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 787: <p>
788:
1.69 deraadt 789: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 790:
791: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 792: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.57 louis 793: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 794:
795: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
796: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
797: available."
798: <p>
799:
1.69 deraadt 800: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
801:
1.6 deraadt 802: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 803: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.57 louis 804: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 805:
806: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
807: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
808: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
809: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
810: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 louis 814: <a
815: href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
816: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
817: </strong></font><br>
818:
819: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
820: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
821: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
822: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
823: an interesting read.
824: <p>
825:
1.69 deraadt 826: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
827:
828: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
829: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
830: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
831: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
832:
833: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
834: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
835: <p>
836:
1.57 louis 837: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 838: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
839: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
840: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.57 louis 841: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 842:
843: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
844: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
845:
846: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 louis 847: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 848:
849: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
850:
851: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 852: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
853: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
854: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 855:
856: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
857: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
858:
1.69 deraadt 859: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
860:
1.23 louis 861: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 862: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.57 louis 863: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 864:
865: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
866: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
867: <p>
868:
1.57 louis 869: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
870: <a
871: href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
872: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
873: </strong></font><br>
874:
875: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
876: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
877: crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
878: site.<p>
879:
1.69 deraadt 880: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
881:
1.7 deraadt 882: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 884: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 885: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.57 louis 886: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 887:
888: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
889: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
890: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
891: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
892: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
893: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
894: <p>
895:
896: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 897: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
898: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.57 louis 899: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 900:
901: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
902: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
903: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
904: over to OpenBSD.
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 908: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
909: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.57 louis 910: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 911:
912: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
913: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
914: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
915: columns."
916: <p>
917:
1.69 deraadt 918: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
919:
1.58 louis 920: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
921: <a
922: href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
923: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
924: </strong></font><br>
925:
926: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
927: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
928:
1.2 deraadt 929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.57 louis 930: <a
931: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
932: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
933:
934: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
935: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
936: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
937:
1.69 deraadt 938: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
939:
1.57 louis 940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 941: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 942: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.57 louis 943: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 944:
945: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
946: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
947: Implementation, including a brief interview with
948: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 949: <p>
950:
1.69 deraadt 951: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
952:
1.1 deraadt 953: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 954: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
955: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 956:
1.69 deraadt 957: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
958: OpenBSD is.
1.1 deraadt 959: <p>
960:
1.69 deraadt 961: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 962:
963: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
964: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
965: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.57 louis 966: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 967:
968: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
969: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
970: <p>
971:
972: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.57 louis 973: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 974: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
975: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 976: <p>
977:
1.69 deraadt 978: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
979:
980: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
981: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
982: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
983: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
984: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
985: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
986:
987: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
988: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
989: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
990: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
991: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
992: <p>
993:
994: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
995:
1.38 louis 996: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 997: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
998: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 999:
1.69 deraadt 1000: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1001: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.38 louis 1002: <p>
1003:
1.17 deraadt 1004: </dl>
1005: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1006:
1.27 deraadt 1007: <hr>
1.72 louis 1008: <a name=se></a>
1.45 philen 1009: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1010:
1.102 niklas 1011: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1012:
1013: <dl>
1014: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1015: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.102 niklas 1016: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1017:
1018: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1019: hardware-supported cryptography.
1020: <p>
1021:
1022: </dl>
1023:
1.84 niklas 1024: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1025:
1026: <dl>
1027: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1028: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1029: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1030:
1031: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1032: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.84 niklas 1033: <p>
1034:
1035: </dl>
1036:
1.69 deraadt 1037: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1038:
1.17 deraadt 1039: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 1040: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1041: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.57 louis 1042: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1043:
1044: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1045: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1046: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1047: <p>
1048:
1049: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1050: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1051: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1052: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.57 louis 1053: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1054:
1.20 louis 1055: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1056: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1057: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1058: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1059: <p>
1060:
1.17 deraadt 1061: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1062:
1.27 deraadt 1063: <hr>
1.72 louis 1064: <a name=jp></a>
1.20 louis 1065: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1066:
1067: <dl>
1068:
1.69 deraadt 1069: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1070:
1.20 louis 1071: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1072: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
1073: Sept. 28, 1999
1.57 louis 1074: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1075:
1076: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1077: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1078: translating and reprinting articles from
1079: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1080: <p>
1081:
1082: </dl>
1083:
1.50 louis 1084: <hr>
1.72 louis 1085: <a name=de></a>
1.50 louis 1086: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1087: <dl>
1088:
1.72 louis 1089: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1090:
1091: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.101 jufi 1092: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index2.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 1093: Februar 2000
1094: </strong></font><br>
1095:
1.101 jufi 1096: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 1097: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
1098: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1099: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 1100: Giving way to
1101: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
1102: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
1103: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
1104: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.72 louis 1105: <p>
1106:
1.69 deraadt 1107: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1108:
1.50 louis 1109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1110: <A href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1111: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.57 louis 1112: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 1113:
1114: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1115: <p>
1116: </dl>
1117:
1.20 louis 1118:
1.1 deraadt 1119: <hr>
1.72 louis 1120: <a name=ru></a>
1.56 deraadt 1121: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1122: <dl>
1123:
1.69 deraadt 1124: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1125:
1.56 deraadt 1126: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1127: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1128: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.62 form 1129: </strong></font><br>
1130:
1131: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1132: <p>
1133:
1.69 deraadt 1134: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1135:
1.62 form 1136: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1137: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1138: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.57 louis 1139: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 1140:
1.59 form 1141: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.56 deraadt 1142: <p>
1143:
1.89 louis 1144: </dl>
1145:
1146: <hr>
1147: <a name=pl></a>
1148: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
1149: <dl>
1150:
1151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1152: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
1153: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
1154: January 2000
1155: </strong></font><br>
1156:
1157: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
1158: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
1159: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
1160: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
1161: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
1162: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1163: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1164: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1165: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
1166: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1167: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
1168: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.56 deraadt 1169: <p>
1170: </dl>
1171:
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