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1.16 louis 31:
1.161 louis 32: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
33:
34: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
35: <a
1.168 ! provos 36: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
! 37: December 7, 2000
! 38: </strong></font><br>
! 39:
! 40: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
! 41: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
! 42: us explain.
! 43: <p>
! 44:
! 45: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 46: <a
1.166 louis 47: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html">System and
48: Network Security - Kernel Options</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
49: December 6, 2000
50: </strong></font><br>
51:
52: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
53: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
54: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
55: <p>
56:
57: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
58: <a
1.162 millert 59: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
60: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
61: </strong></font><br>
62:
63: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 64: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
65: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
66: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
67: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
68: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
69: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 70: <p>
1.162 millert 71:
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
73: <a
1.161 louis 74: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
75: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
76: </strong></font><br>
77:
78: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
79: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
80: <p>
81:
1.158 louis 82: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 83:
84: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 85: <a
1.164 deraadt 86: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 87: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 88: </strong></font><br>
89: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
90: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
94: <a
95: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
96: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
97: </strong></font><br>
98:
99: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
100: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
104: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
105: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
106: </strong></font><br>
107: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
108: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
109: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
110: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
111: <p>
112:
113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
114: <a
1.157 louis 115: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
116: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
117: </strong></font><br>
118: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
119: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
120: <p>
121:
122: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
123:
124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 125: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
126: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
127: </strong></font><br>
128:
129: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
130: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
131: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
132: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
133: <p>
134:
135: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
136: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
137: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
138: </strong></font><br>
139:
140: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
141: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
142: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
143: it because they love coding...
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
147: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
148: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
149: </strong></font><br>
150:
151: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
152: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
153: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
154: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
155: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
156: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
157: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
158: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
159: <p>
160:
161: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 162: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
163: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
164: </strong></font><br>
165:
166: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
167: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
168: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
169: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
170: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
171: the pizza.
172: <p>
173:
174: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 175: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
176: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
177: </strong></font><br>
178:
179: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
180: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
181: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
182: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
183: problems.
184: <p>
185:
186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 187: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
188: </strong></font><br>
189:
190: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
191: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
192: - whether they like it or not.
193: <p>
194:
195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 196: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
197: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
198: </strong></font><br>
199:
200: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
201: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
202: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 203: <p>
1.148 aaron 204:
205: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 206: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
207: </strong></font><br>
208:
209: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
210: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
211: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
212: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
213: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
214: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
215: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
216: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
217: <p>
218:
219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 220: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
221: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
222: </strong></font><br>
223:
224: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
225: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
226: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
227: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
228: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
229: <p>
230:
1.138 louis 231: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
232:
233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 234: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 235: System Takes On Linux</a>,
236: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
237: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 238: </strong></font><br>
239:
1.146 louis 240: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
241: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
242: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
243: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
244: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
245: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
246: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 247: <p>
248:
249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 250: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
251: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
252: </strong></font><br>
253:
254: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
255: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
256: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
257: library after installing the OS.
258: <p>
259:
260: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 261: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 262: Sys Admin, September 2000
263: </strong></font><br>
264:
265: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
266: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
267: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
268: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
269: (<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>,
270: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
271: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
272: <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
273: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
274: out of the system.
275: <p>
276:
1.144 louis 277: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
278: <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
279: </strong></font><br>
280:
281: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
282: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
283: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
284: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
285: the IP filtering and address translation.
286: <p>
287:
1.131 louis 288: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
289:
290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 291: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
292: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
293: </strong></font><br>
294:
295: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
296: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
297: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
298: <p>
299:
300: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 301: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
302: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
303: </strong></font><br>
304:
305: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
306: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
307: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
308: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
309: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
310: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
311: note of"</i>.
312: <p>
313:
314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 315: <a
316: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
317: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
318: </strong></font><br>
319:
320: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
321: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
322: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
323: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 327: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 328: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
329: </strong></font><br>
330:
331: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
332: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
333: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
334: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
335: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
336: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
337: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 341: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
342: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
343: 2000
344: </strong></font><br>
345:
346: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
347: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
348: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
349: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
350: against current industry practices.
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 354: <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
355: </strong></font><br>
356:
357: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
358: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
359: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 363: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
364: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
365: </strong></font><br>
366:
367: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
368: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
369: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
370: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
371: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
372: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
373: careful code reviews, he concludes.
374: <p>
375:
376: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 377: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
378: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
379: </strong></font><br>
380:
381: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
382: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
383: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
384: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
385: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 386: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
387: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
388: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 389: <p>
390:
1.118 louis 391: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
392:
393: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 394: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
395: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
396: </strong></font><br>
397:
398: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
399: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
400: about time. The article mentions that
401: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
402: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
403: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 404: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 405: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
406: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
407: ammended since.
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 411: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 412: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 413: </strong></font><br>
414:
415: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
416: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
417: of OpenSSH.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
421: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
422: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
423: </strong></font><br>
424:
425: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 426: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 427: bridging.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
431: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
432: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 433: </strong></font><br>
434:
1.121 deraadt 435: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
436: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 437: <p>
438:
439: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 440: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
441: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
442: </strong></font><br>
443:
444: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
445: <p>
446:
447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 448: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 449: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
450: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 451: </strong></font><br>
452:
1.120 deraadt 453: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
454: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 455: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
456: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
457: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 461: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
462: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
463: </strong></font><br>
464:
465: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
466: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
467: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
468: protocols and their quirks.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.160 jufi 472: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html"In
1.137 louis 473: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 474: </strong></font><br>
475:
476: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
477: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
478: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 479: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 483: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
484: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
485: </strong></font><br>
486:
487: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
488: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
489: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
490: <p>
491:
492: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 493: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 494: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
495: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 496: </strong></font><br>
497:
498: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
499: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
500: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
501: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
502: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
503: <p>
504:
1.104 louis 505: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
506:
1.113 naddy 507: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 508: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
509: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
510: </strong></font><br>
511:
512: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
513: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
514: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
515: be a bit dry.
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 519: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
520: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
521: 2000
1.128 louis 522: </strong></font><br>
523:
524: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
525: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
526: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
527: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
528: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 529: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 533: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
534: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 535: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 536:
537: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
538: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
539: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
540: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 541: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
542: <p>
1.110 louis 543:
1.117 louis 544: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
545: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
546: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
547: </strong></font><br>
548:
549: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
550: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
551: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
552: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
553: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
554: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
555: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
556: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
557: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
558: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
559: <p>
560:
1.113 naddy 561: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 562: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 563: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 564:
565: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
566: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 567: <p>
1.108 louis 568:
1.113 naddy 569: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 570: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
571: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 572: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 573:
574: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
575: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
576: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 577: <p>
1.106 louis 578:
1.113 naddy 579: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 580: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
581: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 582: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 583:
584: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
585: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
586: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
587: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 588: <p>
1.107 louis 589:
1.113 naddy 590: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 591: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
592: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 593: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 594:
595: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
596: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 597: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 598: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
599: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 600: <p>
1.105 louis 601:
1.113 naddy 602: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 603: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/jun2000/junopens.htm">Security
1.104 louis 604: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 605: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 606:
1.113 naddy 607: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
608: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 609: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 610: <p>
1.104 louis 611:
1.121 deraadt 612: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
613: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
614: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
615: </strong></font><br>
616:
617: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
618: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
619: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
620: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
621: <p>
622:
1.85 louis 623: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
624:
1.113 naddy 625: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 626: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 627: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 628: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 629:
630: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
631: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
632: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
633: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
634: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
635: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
636: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 637: <p>
1.99 louis 638:
1.113 naddy 639: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 640: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 641: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 642: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 643:
644: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
645: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
646: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
647: conditions.
1.113 naddy 648: <p>
1.100 louis 649:
1.113 naddy 650: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 651: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 652: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 653: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 654:
655: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
656: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
657: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
658: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 659: <p>
1.95 louis 660:
1.113 naddy 661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 662: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 663: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 664: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 665:
666: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
667: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 668: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 669: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
670: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 671: <p>
1.92 louis 672:
1.113 naddy 673: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
674: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 675: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 676: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 677:
678: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
679: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
680: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
681: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
682: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
683: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 684: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 685: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 686: <p>
1.91 louis 687:
1.113 naddy 688: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 689: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
690: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 691: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 692:
693: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
694: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
695: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
696: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
697: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
698: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
699: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
700: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
701: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 702: <p>
1.90 louis 703:
1.113 naddy 704: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 705: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
706: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
707: </strong></font><br>
708: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
709: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
710: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
711: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
712: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
713: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
714: <p>
715:
716: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 717: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
718: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 719: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 720:
1.113 naddy 721: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
722: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 723: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
724: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
725: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
726: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
727: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 728: <p>
1.87 louis 729:
1.113 naddy 730: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 731: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
732: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 733: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 734:
735: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
736: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 737: <p>
1.85 louis 738:
1.113 naddy 739: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 740: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
741: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 742: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 743:
744: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 745: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 746: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
747: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 748: <p>
1.89 louis 749:
1.113 naddy 750: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 751: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
752: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 753: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 754:
755: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
756: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
757: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
758: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
759: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
760:
1.78 deraadt 761: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 762:
1.113 naddy 763: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 764: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 765: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 766: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 767: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 768:
769: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
770: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
771: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 772: <p>
1.83 louis 773:
1.113 naddy 774: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 775: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
776: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 777: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 778:
779: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
780: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 781: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 782: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
783: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 784: <p>
1.93 louis 785:
1.113 naddy 786: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 787: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 788: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 789: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 790:
1.83 louis 791: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
792: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
793: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
794: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
795: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 796: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
797: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
798: <p>
1.82 aaron 799:
1.113 naddy 800: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 801: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 802: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 803: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 804:
1.83 louis 805: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
806: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
807: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 808: <p>
1.80 louis 809:
1.113 naddy 810: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 811: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 812: Bad Press</a>,
813: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 814: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 815:
816: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 817: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 818: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
819: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
820: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 821: <p>
1.78 deraadt 822:
823: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
824:
1.113 naddy 825: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
826: <a
1.111 jufi 827: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 828: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
829: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 830: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 831:
832: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
833: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
834: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
835: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 836: <p>
1.74 louis 837:
1.113 naddy 838: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 839: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
840: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 841: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 842:
843: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
844: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
845: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
846: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
847: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
848: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 849: <p>
1.88 louis 850:
1.113 naddy 851: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 852: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 853: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 854: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 855:
856: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
857: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
858: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
859: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 860: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 861: <p>
1.81 louis 862:
1.113 naddy 863: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 864: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 865: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 866: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 867:
868: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
869: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
870: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
871: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
872: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
873: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
874: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 875: <p>
1.90 louis 876:
1.113 naddy 877: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 878: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 879: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 880: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 881:
882: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
883: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
884: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 885: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 886: <p>
1.71 louis 887:
1.69 deraadt 888: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 889:
1.113 naddy 890: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 891: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 892: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 893: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 894:
895: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
896: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
897: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 898: <p>
1.70 louis 899:
1.113 naddy 900: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 901: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 902: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 903:
904: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 905: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 906: <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 907: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 908: <p>
1.68 louis 909:
1.113 naddy 910: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 911: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 912: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 913: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 914:
1.111 jufi 915: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
916: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 917: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 918: "secure by default" installation.
919: <p>
1.64 louis 920:
1.113 naddy 921: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 922: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 923: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 924: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 925:
1.113 naddy 926: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 927: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 928: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 929: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
930: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
931: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 932: <p>
1.66 louis 933:
1.113 naddy 934: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
935: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 936: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 937: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 938:
939: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 940: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 941: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
942: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
943: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 944: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
945: <p>
1.83 louis 946:
1.113 naddy 947: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 948: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 949: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 950: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 951:
952: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 953: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
954: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 955: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
956: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 957: <p>
1.64 louis 958:
1.113 naddy 959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 960: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 961: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 962: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 963:
964: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
965: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 966: <p>
1.65 louis 967:
1.69 deraadt 968: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
969:
1.113 naddy 970: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 971: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 972: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 973: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 974:
975: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
976: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
977: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
978: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 979: <p>
1.88 louis 980:
1.113 naddy 981: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 982: <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 983: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 984:
985: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 986: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
987: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 988: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
989: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 990: <p>
1.60 louis 991:
1.113 naddy 992: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
993: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
994: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 995: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 996: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 997:
998: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
999: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1000: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1001: <p>
1.58 louis 1002:
1.113 naddy 1003: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1004: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1005: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1006:
1007: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1008: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1009: <p>
1.53 louis 1010:
1.113 naddy 1011: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1012: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1013: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1014: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1015:
1016: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1017: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1018: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1019: <p>
1.99 louis 1020:
1.113 naddy 1021: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1022: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1023: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1024:
1025: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1026: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1027: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1028: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1029: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1030:
1.113 naddy 1031: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1032: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1033: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1034: </strong></font><br>
1035:
1036: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1037: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1038: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1039: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1040: <p>
1041:
1042: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1043: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1044: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1045: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1046:
1047: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1048: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1049: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1050:
1.113 naddy 1051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1052: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1053: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1054:
1055: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1056: in
1.113 naddy 1057: <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 1058: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1059: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1060: <p>
1.53 louis 1061:
1.113 naddy 1062: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1063: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1064: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1065: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1066: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1067:
1.58 louis 1068: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1069: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1070:
1.69 deraadt 1071: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1072:
1.113 naddy 1073: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1074: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1075: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1076: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1077: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1078:
1.58 louis 1079: Kurt Seifried
1080: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1081: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1082: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1083: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1084:
1.113 naddy 1085: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1086: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1087: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1088: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1089:
1090: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1091: <p>
1.96 louis 1092:
1.113 naddy 1093: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1094: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1095: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1096: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1097:
1098: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1099: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1100: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1101: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1102: <p>
1.86 louis 1103:
1.69 deraadt 1104: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1105:
1.113 naddy 1106: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1107: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1108: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1109: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1110:
1111: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1112: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1113: <p>
1.61 louis 1114:
1.113 naddy 1115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1116: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1117: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1118: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1119: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1120:
1121: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1122: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1123: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1124: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1125: right -- or at least strives to".
1126: <p>
1.48 louis 1127:
1.113 naddy 1128: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1129: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1130: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1131: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1132: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1133: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1134: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1135: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1136: <p>
1.61 louis 1137:
1.113 naddy 1138: <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 1139: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1140: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1141:
1142: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1143: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1144: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1145: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1146: <p>
1.46 louis 1147:
1.113 naddy 1148: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1149: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1150: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1151: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1152:
1153: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1154: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1155: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1156:
1.113 naddy 1157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1158: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1159: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1160: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1161:
1162: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1163: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1164: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1165: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1166: <p>
1.70 louis 1167:
1.69 deraadt 1168: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1169:
1.113 naddy 1170: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1171: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1172: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1173:
1174: Kurt Seifried
1175: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1176: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1177: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1178: <p>
1.44 philen 1179:
1.113 naddy 1180: <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 1181: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1182: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1183:
1184: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1185: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1186:
1.113 naddy 1187: <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 1188: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1189: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1190:
1191: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1192: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1193:
1.113 naddy 1194: <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 1195: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1196: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1197:
1198: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1199: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1200: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1201: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1202: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1203:
1.113 naddy 1204: <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 1205: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1206: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1207:
1.36 louis 1208: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1209: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1210:
1.113 naddy 1211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1212: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1213: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1214: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1215:
1216: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1217: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1218:
1.69 deraadt 1219: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1220:
1.113 naddy 1221: <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 1222: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1223: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1224:
1225: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1226: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1227: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1228:
1.113 naddy 1229: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1230: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1231: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1232: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1233:
1234: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1235: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1236: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1237: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1238: <blockquote>
1239: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1240: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1241: <br>
1242: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1243: </code>
1244: </blockquote>
1245: <p>
1246:
1247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1248: <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>
1249: <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
1250: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1251:
1252: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1253: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1254: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1255: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1256:
1.113 naddy 1257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1258: <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 1259: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1260:
1261: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1262: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1263: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1264: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1265: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1266: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1267: <p>
1.19 louis 1268:
1.113 naddy 1269: <li><strong>
1270: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1271: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1272:
1273: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1274: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1275: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1276: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1277: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1278: <p>
1.16 louis 1279:
1.113 naddy 1280: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1281: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1282: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1283: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1284:
1.57 louis 1285: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1286: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1287: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1288: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1289:
1.113 naddy 1290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1291: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1292: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1293: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1294:
1.113 naddy 1295: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1296:
1.113 naddy 1297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1298: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1299: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1300: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1301:
1.23 louis 1302: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1303: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1304: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1305: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1306: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1307: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1308:
1.113 naddy 1309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1310: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1311: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1312: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1313:
1314: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1315: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1316: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1317: installation.
1.113 naddy 1318: <p>
1.47 louis 1319:
1.113 naddy 1320: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1321: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1322: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1323: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1324:
1325: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1326: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1327:
1.69 deraadt 1328: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1329:
1.113 naddy 1330: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1331: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1332: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1333: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1334:
1335: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1336: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1337: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1338: <p>
1.12 louis 1339:
1.113 naddy 1340: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1341: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1342: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1343: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1344:
1345: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1346: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1347: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1348: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1349: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1350: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1351: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1352: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1353:
1.69 deraadt 1354: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1355:
1.113 naddy 1356: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1357: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1358: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1359:
1360: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1361: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1362: available."
1.113 naddy 1363: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1364:
1.69 deraadt 1365: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1366:
1.113 naddy 1367: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1368: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1369: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1370:
1371: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1372: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1373: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1374: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1375: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1376: <p>
1.33 louis 1377:
1.113 naddy 1378: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1379: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1380: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1381: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1382:
1.113 naddy 1383: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1384: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1385: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1386: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1387: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1388: <p>
1.57 louis 1389:
1.69 deraadt 1390: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1391:
1.113 naddy 1392: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1393: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1394: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1395: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1396:
1397: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1398: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1399: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1400:
1.113 naddy 1401: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1402: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1403: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1404: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1405: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1406:
1407: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1408: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1409:
1.113 naddy 1410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1411: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1412:
1.113 naddy 1413: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1414:
1.113 naddy 1415: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1416: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1417: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1418: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1419:
1420: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1421: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1422:
1.69 deraadt 1423: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1424:
1.113 naddy 1425: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1426: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1427: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1428:
1429: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1430: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1431: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1432:
1.113 naddy 1433: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1434: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1435: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1436: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1437:
1438: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1439: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1440: crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1441: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1442:
1.69 deraadt 1443: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1444:
1.160 jufi 1445: <a name=anzen1></a>
1.113 naddy 1446: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1447: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1448: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1449: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1450:
1451: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1452: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1453: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1454: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1455: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1456: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1457: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1458:
1.113 naddy 1459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1460: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1461: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1462: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1463:
1464: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1465: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1466: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1467: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1468: <p>
1.15 louis 1469:
1.113 naddy 1470: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1471: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1472: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1473: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1474:
1475: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1476: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1477: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1478: columns."
1.113 naddy 1479: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1480:
1.69 deraadt 1481: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1482:
1.113 naddy 1483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1484: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1485: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1486: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1487:
1488: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1489: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1490:
1.113 naddy 1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1492: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1493: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1494:
1495: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1496: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1497: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1498:
1.69 deraadt 1499: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1500:
1.113 naddy 1501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1502: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1503: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1504: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1505:
1506: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1507: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1508: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1509: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1510: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1511:
1.69 deraadt 1512: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1513:
1.113 naddy 1514: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1515: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1516: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1517:
1.69 deraadt 1518: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1519: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1520: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1521:
1.69 deraadt 1522: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1523:
1.113 naddy 1524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1525: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1526: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1527: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1528:
1529: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1530: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1531: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1532:
1.113 naddy 1533: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1534: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1535: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1536: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1537: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1538:
1.69 deraadt 1539: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1540:
1.113 naddy 1541: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1542: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1543: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1544: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1545: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1546: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1547:
1548: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1549: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1550: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1551: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1552: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1553: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1554:
1555: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1556:
1.113 naddy 1557: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1558: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1559: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1560:
1.69 deraadt 1561: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1562: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1563: <p>
1.112 naddy 1564:
1.113 naddy 1565: </dl>
1566: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1567:
1.113 naddy 1568: <hr>
1569: <a name=se></a>
1570: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1571:
1.102 niklas 1572: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1573:
1.113 naddy 1574: <dl>
1575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1576: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1577: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1578:
1579: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1580: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1581: <p>
1.102 niklas 1582:
1.113 naddy 1583: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1584:
1.84 niklas 1585: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1586:
1.113 naddy 1587: <dl>
1588: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1589: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1590: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1591:
1592: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1593: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1594: <p>
1.84 niklas 1595:
1.113 naddy 1596: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1597:
1.69 deraadt 1598: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1599:
1.113 naddy 1600: <dl>
1601: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1602: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1603: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1604:
1605: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1606: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1607: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1608: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1609:
1.113 naddy 1610: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1611: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1612: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1613: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1614: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1615:
1.20 louis 1616: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1617: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1618: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1619: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1620: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1621:
1.113 naddy 1622: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1623:
1.113 naddy 1624: <hr>
1625: <a name=jp></a>
1626: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1627:
1.113 naddy 1628: <dl>
1.20 louis 1629:
1.69 deraadt 1630: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1631:
1.113 naddy 1632: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1633: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1634: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1636:
1637: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1638: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1639: translating and reprinting articles from
1640: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 1641: <p>
1.112 naddy 1642:
1.113 naddy 1643: </dl>
1.20 louis 1644:
1.113 naddy 1645: <hr>
1646: <a name=de></a>
1647: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1648: <dl>
1.50 louis 1649:
1.151 louis 1650: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1651:
1652: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1653: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1654: </strong></font><br>
1655:
1656: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1657: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1658: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1659: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1660: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1661:
1662: <p>
1663:
1.72 louis 1664: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1665:
1.113 naddy 1666: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 1667: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 1668: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 1669: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 1670:
1.101 jufi 1671: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 1672: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
1673: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 1674: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 1675: Giving way to
1676: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
1677: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
1678: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
1679: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 1680: <p>
1.72 louis 1681:
1.69 deraadt 1682: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1683:
1.113 naddy 1684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1685: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 1686: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1687: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 1688:
1689: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1690: <p>
1691: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1692:
1.50 louis 1693:
1.113 naddy 1694: <hr>
1695: <a name=ru></a>
1696: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1697: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1698:
1.69 deraadt 1699: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1700:
1.113 naddy 1701: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1702: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1703: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 1704: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 1705:
1706: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 1707: <p>
1.62 form 1708:
1.69 deraadt 1709: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1712: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1713: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 1714: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 1715:
1.59 form 1716: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 1717: <p>
1.112 naddy 1718:
1.113 naddy 1719: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1720:
1.113 naddy 1721: <hr>
1722: <a name=pl></a>
1723: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
1724: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1725:
1.113 naddy 1726: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 1727: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
1728: Radio, August 2, 2000
1729: </strong></font><br>
1730:
1731: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1732: about differences betwen OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1733: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1734: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1735: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1736: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1737: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1738: <p>
1739:
1740: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1741: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
1742: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
1743: January 2000
1.113 naddy 1744: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1745:
1746: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
1747: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
1748: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
1749: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
1750: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
1751: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 1752: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1753: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 1754: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
1755: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1756: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
1757: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 1758: <p>
1759: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 1760:
1.113 naddy 1761: <hr>
1762: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1763: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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