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29: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.16 louis 31:
1.158 louis 32: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 33:
34: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 35: <a
36: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
37: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
38: </strong></font><br>
39: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
40: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
41: <p>
42:
43: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
44:
45: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 46: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
47: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
48: </strong></font><br>
49:
50: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
51: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
52: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
53: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
54: <p>
55:
56: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
57: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
58: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
59: </strong></font><br>
60:
61: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
62: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
63: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
64: it because they love coding...
65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
68: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
69: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
70: </strong></font><br>
71:
72: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
73: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
74: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
75: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
76: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
77: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
78: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
79: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 83: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
84: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
85: </strong></font><br>
86:
87: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
88: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
89: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
90: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
91: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
92: the pizza.
93: <p>
94:
95: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 96: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
97: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
98: </strong></font><br>
99:
100: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
101: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
102: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
103: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
104: problems.
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 108: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
109: </strong></font><br>
110:
111: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
112: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
113: - whether they like it or not.
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 117: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
118: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
119: </strong></font><br>
120:
121: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
122: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
123: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 124: <p>
1.148 aaron 125:
126: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 127: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
128: </strong></font><br>
129:
130: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
131: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
132: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
133: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
134: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
135: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
136: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
137: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
138: <p>
139:
140: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 141: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
142: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
143: </strong></font><br>
144:
145: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
146: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
147: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
148: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
149: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
150: <p>
151:
1.138 louis 152: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
153:
154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 155: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 156: System Takes On Linux</a>,
157: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
158: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 159: </strong></font><br>
160:
1.146 louis 161: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
162: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
163: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
164: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
165: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
166: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
167: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 171: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
172: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
173: </strong></font><br>
174:
175: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
176: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
177: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
178: library after installing the OS.
179: <p>
180:
181: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 ! todd 182: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 183: Sys Admin, September 2000
184: </strong></font><br>
185:
186: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
187: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
188: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
189: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
190: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vpn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">vpn(8)</a>,
191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
192: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
193: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">isakmpd(8)</a>) and the OpenBSD
194: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
195: out of the system.
196: <p>
197:
1.144 louis 198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
199: <a href="http://www.osOpinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, September 2000
200: </strong></font><br>
201:
202: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
203: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
204: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
205: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
206: the IP filtering and address translation.
207: <p>
208:
1.131 louis 209: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
210:
211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 212: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
213: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
214: </strong></font><br>
215:
216: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
217: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
218: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
219: <p>
220:
221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 222: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
223: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
224: </strong></font><br>
225:
226: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
227: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
228: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
229: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
230: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
231: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
232: note of"</i>.
233: <p>
234:
235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 236: <a
237: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
238: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
239: </strong></font><br>
240:
241: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
242: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
243: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
244: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
245: <p>
246:
247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 248: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 249: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
250: </strong></font><br>
251:
252: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
253: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
254: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
255: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
256: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
257: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
258: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
259: <p>
260:
261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 262: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
263: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
264: 2000
265: </strong></font><br>
266:
267: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
268: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
269: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
270: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
271: against current industry practices.
272: <p>
273:
274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 275: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/08/OpenBSD.html">An Overview of OpenBSD Security</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2000
276: </strong></font><br>
277:
278: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
279: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
280: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
281: <p>
282:
283: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 284: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
285: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
286: </strong></font><br>
287:
288: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
289: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
290: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
291: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
292: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
293: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
294: careful code reviews, he concludes.
295: <p>
296:
297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 298: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
299: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
300: </strong></font><br>
301:
302: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
303: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
304: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
305: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
306: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 307: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
308: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
309: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 310: <p>
311:
1.118 louis 312: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
313:
314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 315: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
316: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
317: </strong></font><br>
318:
319: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
320: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
321: about time. The article mentions that
322: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
323: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
324: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 325: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 326: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
327: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
328: ammended since.
329: <p>
330:
331: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 332: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 333: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 334: </strong></font><br>
335:
336: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
337: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
338: of OpenSSH.
339: <p>
340:
341: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
343: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
344: </strong></font><br>
345:
346: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 347: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 348: bridging.
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
352: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
353: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 354: </strong></font><br>
355:
1.121 deraadt 356: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
357: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 358: <p>
359:
360: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 361: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
362: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
363: </strong></font><br>
364:
365: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
366: <p>
367:
368: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 369: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 370: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
371: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 372: </strong></font><br>
373:
1.120 deraadt 374: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
375: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 376: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
377: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
378: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
379: <p>
380:
381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 382: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
383: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
384: </strong></font><br>
385:
386: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
387: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
388: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
389: protocols and their quirks.
390: <p>
391:
392: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 393: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html"</a>In
394: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 395: </strong></font><br>
396:
397: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
398: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
399: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 400: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 401: <p>
402:
403: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 404: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
405: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
406: </strong></font><br>
407:
408: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
409: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
410: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
411: <p>
412:
413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 414: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 415: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
416: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 417: </strong></font><br>
418:
419: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
420: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
421: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
422: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
423: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
424: <p>
425:
1.104 louis 426: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
427:
1.113 naddy 428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 429: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
430: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
431: </strong></font><br>
432:
433: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
434: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
435: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
436: be a bit dry.
437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 440: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
441: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
442: 2000
1.128 louis 443: </strong></font><br>
444:
445: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
446: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
447: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
448: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
449: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 450: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 451: <p>
452:
453: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 454: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
455: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 456: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 457:
458: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
459: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
460: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
461: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 462: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
463: <p>
1.110 louis 464:
1.117 louis 465: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
466: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
467: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
468: </strong></font><br>
469:
470: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
471: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
472: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
473: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
474: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
475: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
476: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
477: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
478: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
479: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
480: <p>
481:
1.113 naddy 482: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 483: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 484: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 485:
486: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
487: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 488: <p>
1.108 louis 489:
1.113 naddy 490: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 491: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
492: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 493: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 494:
495: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
496: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
497: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 498: <p>
1.106 louis 499:
1.113 naddy 500: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 501: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
502: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 503: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 504:
505: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
506: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
507: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
508: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 509: <p>
1.107 louis 510:
1.113 naddy 511: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 512: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
513: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 514: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 515:
516: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
517: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 518: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 519: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
520: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 521: <p>
1.105 louis 522:
1.113 naddy 523: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 524: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/jun2000/junopens.htm">Security
1.104 louis 525: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 526: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 527:
1.113 naddy 528: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
529: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 530: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 531: <p>
1.104 louis 532:
1.121 deraadt 533: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
534: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
535: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
536: </strong></font><br>
537:
538: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
539: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
540: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
541: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
542: <p>
543:
1.85 louis 544: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
545:
1.113 naddy 546: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 547: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 548: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 549: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 550:
551: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
552: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
553: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
554: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
555: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
556: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
557: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 558: <p>
1.99 louis 559:
1.113 naddy 560: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 561: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 562: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 563: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 564:
565: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
566: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
567: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
568: conditions.
1.113 naddy 569: <p>
1.100 louis 570:
1.113 naddy 571: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 572: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 573: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 574: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 575:
576: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
577: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
578: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
579: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 580: <p>
1.95 louis 581:
1.113 naddy 582: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 583: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 584: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 585: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 586:
587: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
588: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 589: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 590: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
591: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 592: <p>
1.92 louis 593:
1.113 naddy 594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
595: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 596: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 597: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 598:
599: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
600: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
601: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
602: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
603: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
604: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 605: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 606: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 607: <p>
1.91 louis 608:
1.113 naddy 609: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 610: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
611: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 612: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 613:
614: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
615: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
616: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
617: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
618: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
619: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
620: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
621: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
622: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 623: <p>
1.90 louis 624:
1.113 naddy 625: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 626: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
627: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
628: </strong></font><br>
629: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
630: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
631: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
632: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
633: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
634: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
635: <p>
636:
637: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 638: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
639: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 640: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 641:
1.113 naddy 642: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
643: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 644: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
645: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
646: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
647: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
648: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 649: <p>
1.87 louis 650:
1.113 naddy 651: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 652: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
653: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 654: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 655:
656: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
657: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 658: <p>
1.85 louis 659:
1.113 naddy 660: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 661: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
662: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 663: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 664:
665: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 666: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 667: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
668: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 669: <p>
1.89 louis 670:
1.113 naddy 671: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 672: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
673: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 674: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 675:
676: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
677: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
678: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
679: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
680: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
681:
1.78 deraadt 682: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 683:
1.113 naddy 684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 685: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 686: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color=4669ad><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 687: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 688: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 689:
690: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
691: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
692: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 693: <p>
1.83 louis 694:
1.113 naddy 695: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 696: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
697: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 698: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 699:
700: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
701: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 702: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 703: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
704: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 705: <p>
1.93 louis 706:
1.113 naddy 707: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 708: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 709: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 710: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 711:
1.83 louis 712: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
713: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
714: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
715: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
716: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 717: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
718: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
719: <p>
1.82 aaron 720:
1.113 naddy 721: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 722: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 723: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 724: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 725:
1.83 louis 726: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
727: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
728: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 729: <p>
1.80 louis 730:
1.113 naddy 731: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 732: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 733: Bad Press</a>,
734: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 735: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 736:
737: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 738: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 739: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
740: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
741: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 742: <p>
1.78 deraadt 743:
744: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
745:
1.113 naddy 746: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
747: <a
1.111 jufi 748: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 749: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
750: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 751: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 752:
753: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
754: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
755: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
756: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 757: <p>
1.74 louis 758:
1.113 naddy 759: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 760: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
761: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 762: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 763:
764: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
765: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
766: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
767: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
768: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
769: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 770: <p>
1.88 louis 771:
1.113 naddy 772: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 773: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 774: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 775: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 776:
777: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
778: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
779: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
780: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 781: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 782: <p>
1.81 louis 783:
1.113 naddy 784: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 785: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 786: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 787: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 788:
789: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
790: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
791: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
792: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
793: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
794: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
795: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 796: <p>
1.90 louis 797:
1.113 naddy 798: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 799: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 800: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 801: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 802:
803: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
804: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
805: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 806: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 807: <p>
1.71 louis 808:
1.69 deraadt 809: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 810:
1.113 naddy 811: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 812: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 813: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 814: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 815:
816: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
817: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
818: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 819: <p>
1.70 louis 820:
1.113 naddy 821: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 822: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 823: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 824:
825: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 826: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 827: <a 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
1.68 louis 828: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 829: <p>
1.68 louis 830:
1.113 naddy 831: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 832: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 833: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 834: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 835:
1.111 jufi 836: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
837: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 838: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 839: "secure by default" installation.
840: <p>
1.64 louis 841:
1.113 naddy 842: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 843: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 844: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 845: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 846:
1.113 naddy 847: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 848: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 849: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 850: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
851: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
852: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 853: <p>
1.66 louis 854:
1.113 naddy 855: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
856: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 857: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 858: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 859:
860: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 861: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 862: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
863: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
864: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 865: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
866: <p>
1.83 louis 867:
1.113 naddy 868: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 869: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 870: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 871: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 872:
873: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 874: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
875: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 876: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
877: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 878: <p>
1.64 louis 879:
1.113 naddy 880: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 881: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 882: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 883: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 884:
885: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
886: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 887: <p>
1.65 louis 888:
1.69 deraadt 889: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
890:
1.113 naddy 891: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 892: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 893: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 894: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 895:
896: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
897: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
898: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
899: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 900: <p>
1.88 louis 901:
1.113 naddy 902: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 903: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html">Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
1.113 naddy 904: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 905:
906: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 907: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
908: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 909: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
910: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 911: <p>
1.60 louis 912:
1.113 naddy 913: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
914: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
915: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 916: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 917: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 918:
919: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
920: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
921: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 922: <p>
1.58 louis 923:
1.113 naddy 924: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 925: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 926: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 927:
928: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
929: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 930: <p>
1.53 louis 931:
1.113 naddy 932: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 933: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
934: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 935: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 936:
937: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
938: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
939: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 940: <p>
1.99 louis 941:
1.113 naddy 942: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 943: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 944: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 945:
946: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
947: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 948: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 949: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 950: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 951:
1.113 naddy 952: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 953: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
954: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
955: </strong></font><br>
956:
957: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
958: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
959: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
960: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
961: <p>
962:
963: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 964: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 965: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 966: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 967:
968: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
969: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 970: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 971:
1.113 naddy 972: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 973: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 974: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 975:
976: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 977: in
1.113 naddy 978: <a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
1.53 louis 979: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 980: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 981: <p>
1.53 louis 982:
1.113 naddy 983: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 984: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 985: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
986: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 987: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 988:
1.58 louis 989: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 990: <p>
1.51 deraadt 991:
1.69 deraadt 992: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
993:
1.113 naddy 994: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 995: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 996: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
997: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 998: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 999:
1.58 louis 1000: Kurt Seifried
1001: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1002: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1003: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1004: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1005:
1.113 naddy 1006: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1007: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1008: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1009: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1010:
1011: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1012: <p>
1.96 louis 1013:
1.113 naddy 1014: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1015: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1016: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1017: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1018:
1019: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1020: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1021: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1022: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1023: <p>
1.86 louis 1024:
1.69 deraadt 1025: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1026:
1.113 naddy 1027: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1028: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1029: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1030: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1031:
1032: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1033: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1034: <p>
1.61 louis 1035:
1.113 naddy 1036: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1037: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1038: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1039: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1040: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1041:
1042: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1043: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1044: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1045: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1046: right -- or at least strives to".
1047: <p>
1.48 louis 1048:
1.113 naddy 1049: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1050: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1051: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1052: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1053: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1054: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1055: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1056: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1057: <p>
1.61 louis 1058:
1.113 naddy 1059: <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 1060: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1061: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1062:
1063: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1064: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1065: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1066: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1067: <p>
1.46 louis 1068:
1.113 naddy 1069: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1070: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1071: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1072: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1073:
1074: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1075: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1076: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1077:
1.113 naddy 1078: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1079: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1080: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1081: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1082:
1083: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1084: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1085: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1086: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1087: <p>
1.70 louis 1088:
1.69 deraadt 1089: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1090:
1.113 naddy 1091: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1092: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1093: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1094:
1095: Kurt Seifried
1096: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1097: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1098: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1099: <p>
1.44 philen 1100:
1.113 naddy 1101: <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>,
1.41 louis 1102: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1103: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1104:
1105: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1106: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1107:
1.113 naddy 1108: <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>,
1.37 louis 1109: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1110: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1111:
1112: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1113: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1114:
1.113 naddy 1115: <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>,
1.36 louis 1116: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1117: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1118:
1119: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1120: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1121: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1122: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1123: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1124:
1.113 naddy 1125: <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 1126: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1127: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1128:
1.36 louis 1129: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1130: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1131:
1.113 naddy 1132: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1133: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1134: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1135: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1136:
1137: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1138: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1139:
1.69 deraadt 1140: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1141:
1.113 naddy 1142: <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 1143: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1144: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1145:
1146: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1147: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1148: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1149:
1.113 naddy 1150: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1151: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1152: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1153: </strong></font><br>
1.29 louis 1154:
1155: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1156: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1157: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1158: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1159: <blockquote>
1160: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1161: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1162: <br>
1163: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1164: </code>
1165: </blockquote>
1166: <p>
1167:
1168: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1169: <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>
1170: <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
1171: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1172:
1173: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1174: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1175: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1176: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1177:
1.113 naddy 1178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1179: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.113 naddy 1180: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1181:
1182: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1183: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1184: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1185: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1186: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1187: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1188: <p>
1.19 louis 1189:
1.113 naddy 1190: <li><strong>
1191: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1192: </strong></font><br>
1.16 louis 1193:
1194: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1195: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1196: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1197: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1198: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1199: <p>
1.16 louis 1200:
1.113 naddy 1201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1202: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1203: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1204: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1205:
1.57 louis 1206: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1207: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1208: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1209: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1210:
1.113 naddy 1211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1212: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1213: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1214: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1215:
1.113 naddy 1216: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1217:
1.113 naddy 1218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1219: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1220: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1221: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1222:
1.23 louis 1223: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1224: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1225: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1226: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1227: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1228: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1229:
1.113 naddy 1230: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1231: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1232: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1233: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1234:
1235: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1236: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1237: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1238: installation.
1.113 naddy 1239: <p>
1.47 louis 1240:
1.113 naddy 1241: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1242: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1243: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1244: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1245:
1246: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1247: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1248:
1.69 deraadt 1249: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1250:
1.113 naddy 1251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1252: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1253: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1254: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1255:
1256: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1257: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1258: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1259: <p>
1.12 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1262: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1263: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1264: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1265:
1266: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1267: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1268: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1269: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1270: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1271: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1272: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1273: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1274:
1.69 deraadt 1275: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1276:
1.113 naddy 1277: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1278: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1279: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1280:
1281: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1282: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1283: available."
1.113 naddy 1284: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1285:
1.69 deraadt 1286: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1287:
1.113 naddy 1288: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1289: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1290: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1291:
1292: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1293: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1294: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1295: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1296: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1297: <p>
1.33 louis 1298:
1.113 naddy 1299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1300: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1301: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1303:
1.113 naddy 1304: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1305: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1306: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1307: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1308: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1309: <p>
1.57 louis 1310:
1.69 deraadt 1311: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1312:
1.113 naddy 1313: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1314: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1315: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1316: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1317:
1318: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1319: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1320: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1321:
1.113 naddy 1322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1323: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1324: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1325: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1326: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1327:
1328: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1329: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1330:
1.113 naddy 1331: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1332: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1333:
1.113 naddy 1334: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1335:
1.113 naddy 1336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1337: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1338: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1340:
1341: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1342: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1343:
1.69 deraadt 1344: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1345:
1.113 naddy 1346: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1347: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1348: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1349:
1350: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1351: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1352: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1353:
1.113 naddy 1354: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1355: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1356: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1357: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1358:
1359: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1360: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1361: crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1362: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1363:
1.69 deraadt 1364: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1365:
1.113 naddy 1366: <a name=anzen1>
1367: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1368: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1369: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1370: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1371:
1372: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1373: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1374: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1375: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1376: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1377: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1378: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1379:
1.113 naddy 1380: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1381: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1382: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1383: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1384:
1385: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1386: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1387: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1388: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1389: <p>
1.15 louis 1390:
1.113 naddy 1391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1392: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1393: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1394: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1395:
1396: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1397: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1398: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1399: columns."
1.113 naddy 1400: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1401:
1.69 deraadt 1402: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1403:
1.113 naddy 1404: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1405: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1406: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1407: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1408:
1409: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1410: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1411:
1.113 naddy 1412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1413: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1414: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1415:
1416: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1417: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1418: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1419:
1.69 deraadt 1420: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1421:
1.113 naddy 1422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1423: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1424: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1425: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1426:
1427: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1428: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1429: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1430: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1431: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1432:
1.69 deraadt 1433: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1434:
1.113 naddy 1435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1436: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1437: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1438:
1.69 deraadt 1439: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1440: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1441: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1442:
1.69 deraadt 1443: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1444:
1.113 naddy 1445: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1446: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1447: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1448: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1449:
1450: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1451: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1452: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1453:
1.113 naddy 1454: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1455: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1456: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1457: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1458: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1459:
1.69 deraadt 1460: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1461:
1.113 naddy 1462: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1463: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1464: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1465: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1466: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1467: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1468:
1469: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1470: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1471: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1472: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1473: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1474: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1475:
1476: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1477:
1.113 naddy 1478: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1479: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1480: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1481:
1.69 deraadt 1482: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1483: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1484: <p>
1.112 naddy 1485:
1.113 naddy 1486: </dl>
1487: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1488:
1.113 naddy 1489: <hr>
1490: <a name=se></a>
1491: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1492:
1.102 niklas 1493: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1494:
1.113 naddy 1495: <dl>
1496: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1497: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1498: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1499:
1500: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1501: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1502: <p>
1.102 niklas 1503:
1.113 naddy 1504: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1505:
1.84 niklas 1506: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1507:
1.113 naddy 1508: <dl>
1509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1510: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1511: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1512:
1513: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1514: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1515: <p>
1.84 niklas 1516:
1.113 naddy 1517: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1518:
1.69 deraadt 1519: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1520:
1.113 naddy 1521: <dl>
1522: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1523: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1524: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1525:
1526: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1527: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1528: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1529: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1530:
1.113 naddy 1531: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1532: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1533: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1534: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1535: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1536:
1.20 louis 1537: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1538: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1539: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1540: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1541: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1542:
1.113 naddy 1543: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1544:
1.113 naddy 1545: <hr>
1546: <a name=jp></a>
1547: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1548:
1.113 naddy 1549: <dl>
1.20 louis 1550:
1.69 deraadt 1551: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1552:
1.113 naddy 1553: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1554: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1555: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1556: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1557:
1558: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1559: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1560: translating and reprinting articles from
1561: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 1562: <p>
1.112 naddy 1563:
1.113 naddy 1564: </dl>
1.20 louis 1565:
1.113 naddy 1566: <hr>
1567: <a name=de></a>
1568: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1569: <dl>
1.50 louis 1570:
1.151 louis 1571: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1572:
1573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1574: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1575: </strong></font><br>
1576:
1577: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1578: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1579: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1580: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1581: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1582:
1583: <p>
1584:
1.72 louis 1585: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1586:
1.113 naddy 1587: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 1588: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 1589: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 1590: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 1591:
1.101 jufi 1592: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 1593: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
1594: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 1595: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 1596: Giving way to
1597: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
1598: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
1599: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
1600: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 1601: <p>
1.72 louis 1602:
1.69 deraadt 1603: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1604:
1.113 naddy 1605: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1606: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 1607: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1608: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 1609:
1610: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1611: <p>
1612: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1613:
1.50 louis 1614:
1.113 naddy 1615: <hr>
1616: <a name=ru></a>
1617: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1618: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1619:
1.69 deraadt 1620: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1621:
1.113 naddy 1622: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1623: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1624: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 1625: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 1626:
1627: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 1628: <p>
1.62 form 1629:
1.69 deraadt 1630: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1631:
1.113 naddy 1632: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1633: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1634: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 1636:
1.59 form 1637: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 1638: <p>
1.112 naddy 1639:
1.113 naddy 1640: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1641:
1.113 naddy 1642: <hr>
1643: <a name=pl></a>
1644: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
1645: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1646:
1.113 naddy 1647: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 1648: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
1649: Radio, August 2, 2000
1650: </strong></font><br>
1651:
1652: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1653: about differences betwen OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1654: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1655: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1656: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1657: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1658: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1659: <p>
1660:
1661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1662: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
1663: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
1664: January 2000
1.113 naddy 1665: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1666:
1667: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
1668: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
1669: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
1670: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
1671: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
1672: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 1673: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1674: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 1675: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
1676: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1677: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
1678: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 1679: <p>
1680: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 1681:
1.113 naddy 1682: <hr>
1683: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1684: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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