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29: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.16 louis 31:
1.178 ! louis 32: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
! 33:
! 34: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 35: <a
! 36: href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">IPv6:
! 37: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
! 38: </strong></font><br>
! 39:
! 40: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
! 41: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
! 42: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
! 43: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
! 44: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
! 45: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
! 46: <p>
! 47:
1.174 louis 48:
1.175 louis 49: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
50:
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
52: <a
53: href="http://BSD.GeodSoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
54: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
55: </strong></font><br>
56:
57: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 58: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 59: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
60: <p>
61:
1.176 louis 62:
1.172 mickey 63: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
64:
65: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
66: <a
1.176 louis 67: href="http://archives.theglobeandmail.com/s97is.vts?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2Fhome6%2Fusr%2Flocal%2Fgam%2Fsearch%2Fhtml%2F20010129%2FMGCARR%2Ehtml&DocOffset=1&DocsFound=1&QueryZip=openbsd&Collection=TGAM&SortField=sortdate&ViewTemplate=GAMDocView%2Ehts&SearchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Farchives%2Etheglobeandmail%2Ecom%2Fs97is%2Evts%3FQueryZip%3Dopenbsd%26ResultTemplate%3DGAMResults%252Ehts%26QueryText%3Dopenbsd%26Collection%3DTGAM%26SortField%3Dsortdate%26ViewTemplate%3DGAMDocView%252Ehts%26ResultStart%3D1%26ResultCount%3D10&">Global
68: geeks bet on open source</a>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
69: </strong></font><br>
70:
71: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
72: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
73: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
74: <p>
75:
76: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
77: <a
1.174 louis 78: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
79: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
80: </strong></font><br>
81:
82: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
83: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
84: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
85: <p>
86:
87: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
88: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
89: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
90: </strong></font><br>
91:
92: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
93: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
94: <p>
95:
96: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
97: <a
98: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
99: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
100: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
101: </strong></font><br>
102:
103: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
104: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
105: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
106: our own Theo de Raadt.
107: <p>
108:
109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
110: <a
111: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
112: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
113: </strong></font><br>
114:
115: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
116: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
117: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
118: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
119: shut down.]
120: <p>
121:
122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
123: <a
1.172 mickey 124: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo deRaadt,
125: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 126: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 127: </strong></font><br>
128:
129: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
130: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
131: <p>
132:
133: </li>
134:
1.161 louis 135: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
136:
1.175 louis 137:
138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
139: <a
140: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
141: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
142: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
143: </strong></font><br>
144:
145: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
146: by John Wolley
147: <p>
148:
149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
150: <a
151: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
152: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
153: </strong></font><br>
154:
155: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
156: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
157: OpenBSD).
158: <p>
159:
1.161 louis 160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
161: <a
1.171 louis 162: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
163: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
164: </strong></font><br>
165:
166: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
167: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
168: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
169: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
170: and hindsight.
171: <p>
172:
173: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
174: <a
1.168 provos 175: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
176: December 7, 2000
177: </strong></font><br>
178:
179: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
180: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
181: us explain.
182: <p>
183:
184: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
185: <a
1.166 louis 186: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html">System and
187: Network Security - Kernel Options</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
188: December 6, 2000
189: </strong></font><br>
190:
191: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
192: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
193: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
194: <p>
195:
196: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
197: <a
1.162 millert 198: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
199: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
200: </strong></font><br>
201:
202: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 203: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
204: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
205: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
206: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
207: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
208: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 209: <p>
1.162 millert 210:
211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
212: <a
1.161 louis 213: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
214: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
215: </strong></font><br>
216:
217: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
218: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
219: <p>
220:
1.169 louis 221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
222: <a
223: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
224: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
225: </strong></font><br>
226:
227: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
228: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
229: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
230: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
231: <p>
232:
1.158 louis 233: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 234:
235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 236: <a
1.175 louis 237: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
238: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
239: </strong></font><br>
240:
241: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
242: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
246: <a
1.164 deraadt 247: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 248: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 249: </strong></font><br>
250: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
251: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
252: <p>
253:
254: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
255: <a
256: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
257: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
258: </strong></font><br>
259:
260: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
261: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
262: <p>
263:
264: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
266: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
267: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 268:
1.161 louis 269: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
270: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
271: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
272: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
273: <p>
1.174 louis 274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
275: <a
276: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
277: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
278: </strong></font><br>
279:
280: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
281: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
282: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
283: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
284: much of the attitude too).
285: <p>
1.161 louis 286:
287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
288: <a
1.157 louis 289: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
290: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
291: </strong></font><br>
292: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
293: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
294: <p>
295:
296: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
297:
298: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 299: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
300: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
301: </strong></font><br>
302:
303: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
304: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
305: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
306: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
310: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
311: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
312: </strong></font><br>
313:
314: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
315: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
316: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
317: it because they love coding...
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
321: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
322: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
323: </strong></font><br>
324:
325: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
326: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
327: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
328: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
329: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
330: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
331: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
332: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 336: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
337: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
338: </strong></font><br>
339:
340: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
341: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
342: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
343: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
344: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
345: the pizza.
346: <p>
347:
348: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 349: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
350: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
351: </strong></font><br>
352:
353: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
354: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
355: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
356: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
357: problems.
358: <p>
359:
360: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 361: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
362: </strong></font><br>
363:
364: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
365: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
366: - whether they like it or not.
367: <p>
368:
369: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 370: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
371: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
372: </strong></font><br>
373:
374: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
375: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
376: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 377: <p>
1.148 aaron 378:
379: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 380: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
381: </strong></font><br>
382:
383: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
384: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
385: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
386: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
387: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
388: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
389: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
390: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
391: <p>
392:
393: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 394: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
395: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
396: </strong></font><br>
397:
398: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
399: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
400: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
401: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
402: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
403: <p>
404:
1.138 louis 405: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
406:
407: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 408: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 409: System Takes On Linux</a>,
410: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
411: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 412: </strong></font><br>
413:
1.146 louis 414: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
415: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
416: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
417: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
418: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
419: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
420: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 424: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
425: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
426: </strong></font><br>
427:
428: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
429: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
430: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
431: library after installing the OS.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 435: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 436: Sys Admin, September 2000
437: </strong></font><br>
438:
439: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
440: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
441: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
442: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
443: (<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>,
444: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
445: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
446: <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
447: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
448: out of the system.
449: <p>
450:
1.144 louis 451: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
452: <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
453: </strong></font><br>
454:
455: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
456: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
457: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
458: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
459: the IP filtering and address translation.
460: <p>
461:
1.131 louis 462: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
463:
464: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 465: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
466: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
467: </strong></font><br>
468:
469: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
470: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
471: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 475: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
476: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
477: </strong></font><br>
478:
479: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
480: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
481: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
482: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
483: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
484: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
485: note of"</i>.
486: <p>
487:
488: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 489: <a
490: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
491: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
492: </strong></font><br>
493:
494: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
495: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
496: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
497: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
498: <p>
499:
500: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 501: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 502: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
503: </strong></font><br>
504:
505: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
506: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
507: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
508: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
509: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
510: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
511: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 515: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
516: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
517: 2000
518: </strong></font><br>
519:
520: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
521: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
522: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
523: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
524: against current industry practices.
525: <p>
526:
527: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 528: <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
529: </strong></font><br>
530:
531: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
532: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
533: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
534: <p>
535:
536: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 537: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
538: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
539: </strong></font><br>
540:
541: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
542: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
543: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
544: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
545: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
546: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
547: careful code reviews, he concludes.
548: <p>
549:
550: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 551: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
552: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
553: </strong></font><br>
554:
555: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
556: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
557: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
558: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
559: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 560: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
561: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
562: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 563: <p>
564:
1.118 louis 565: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
566:
567: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 568: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
569: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
570: </strong></font><br>
571:
572: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
573: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
574: about time. The article mentions that
575: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
576: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
577: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 578: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 579: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
580: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
581: ammended since.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 585: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 586: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 587: </strong></font><br>
588:
589: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
590: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
591: of OpenSSH.
592: <p>
593:
594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
595: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
596: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
597: </strong></font><br>
598:
599: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 600: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 601: bridging.
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
605: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
606: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 607: </strong></font><br>
608:
1.121 deraadt 609: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
610: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 611: <p>
612:
613: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 614: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
615: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
616: </strong></font><br>
617:
618: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
619: <p>
620:
621: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 622: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 623: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
624: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 625: </strong></font><br>
626:
1.120 deraadt 627: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
628: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 629: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
630: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
631: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
632: <p>
633:
634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 635: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
636: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
640: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
641: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
642: protocols and their quirks.
643: <p>
644:
645: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.160 jufi 646: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html"In
1.137 louis 647: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 648: </strong></font><br>
649:
650: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
651: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
652: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 653: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 654: <p>
655:
656: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 657: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
658: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
659: </strong></font><br>
660:
661: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
662: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
663: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
664: <p>
665:
666: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 667: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 668: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
669: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 670: </strong></font><br>
671:
672: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
673: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
674: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
675: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
676: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
677: <p>
678:
1.104 louis 679: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
680:
1.113 naddy 681: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 682: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
683: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
684: </strong></font><br>
685:
686: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
687: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
688: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
689: be a bit dry.
690: <p>
691:
692: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 693: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
694: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
695: 2000
1.128 louis 696: </strong></font><br>
697:
698: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
699: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
700: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
701: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
702: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 703: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 704: <p>
705:
706: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 707: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
708: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 709: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 710:
711: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
712: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
713: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
714: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 715: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
716: <p>
1.110 louis 717:
1.117 louis 718: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
719: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
720: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
721: </strong></font><br>
722:
723: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
724: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
725: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
726: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
727: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
728: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
729: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
730: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
731: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
732: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
733: <p>
734:
1.113 naddy 735: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 736: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 737: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 738:
739: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
740: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 741: <p>
1.108 louis 742:
1.113 naddy 743: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 744: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
745: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 746: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 747:
748: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
749: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
750: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 751: <p>
1.106 louis 752:
1.113 naddy 753: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 754: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
755: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 756: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 757:
758: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
759: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
760: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
761: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 762: <p>
1.107 louis 763:
1.113 naddy 764: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 765: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
766: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 767: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 768:
769: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
770: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 771: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 772: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
773: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 774: <p>
1.105 louis 775:
1.113 naddy 776: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 777: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/jun2000/junopens.htm">Security
1.104 louis 778: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 779: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 780:
1.113 naddy 781: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
782: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 783: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 784: <p>
1.104 louis 785:
1.121 deraadt 786: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
787: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
788: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
789: </strong></font><br>
790:
791: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
792: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
793: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
794: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
795: <p>
796:
1.85 louis 797: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
798:
1.113 naddy 799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 800: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 801: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 802: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 803:
804: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
805: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
806: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
807: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
808: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
809: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
810: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 811: <p>
1.99 louis 812:
1.113 naddy 813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 814: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 815: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 816: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 817:
818: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
819: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
820: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
821: conditions.
1.113 naddy 822: <p>
1.100 louis 823:
1.113 naddy 824: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 825: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 826: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 827: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 828:
829: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
830: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
831: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
832: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 833: <p>
1.95 louis 834:
1.113 naddy 835: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 836: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 837: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 838: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 839:
840: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
841: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 842: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 843: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
844: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 845: <p>
1.92 louis 846:
1.113 naddy 847: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
848: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 849: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 850: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 851:
852: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
853: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
854: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
855: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
856: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
857: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 858: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 859: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 860: <p>
1.91 louis 861:
1.113 naddy 862: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 863: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
864: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 865: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 866:
867: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
868: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
869: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
870: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
871: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
872: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
873: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
874: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
875: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 876: <p>
1.90 louis 877:
1.113 naddy 878: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 879: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
880: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
881: </strong></font><br>
882: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
883: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
884: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
885: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
886: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
887: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
888: <p>
889:
890: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 891: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
892: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 893: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 894:
1.113 naddy 895: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
896: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 897: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
898: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
899: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
900: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
901: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 902: <p>
1.87 louis 903:
1.113 naddy 904: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 905: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
906: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 907: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 908:
909: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
910: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 911: <p>
1.85 louis 912:
1.113 naddy 913: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 914: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
915: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 916: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 917:
918: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 919: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 920: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
921: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 922: <p>
1.89 louis 923:
1.113 naddy 924: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 925: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
926: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 927: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 928:
929: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
930: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
931: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
932: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
933: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
934:
1.78 deraadt 935: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 936:
1.113 naddy 937: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 938: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 939: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 940: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 941: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 942:
943: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
944: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
945: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 946: <p>
1.83 louis 947:
1.113 naddy 948: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 949: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
950: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 951: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 952:
953: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
954: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 955: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 956: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
957: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 958: <p>
1.93 louis 959:
1.113 naddy 960: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 961: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 962: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 963: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 964:
1.83 louis 965: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
966: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
967: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
968: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
969: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 970: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
971: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
972: <p>
1.82 aaron 973:
1.113 naddy 974: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 975: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 976: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 977: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 978:
1.83 louis 979: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
980: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
981: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 982: <p>
1.80 louis 983:
1.113 naddy 984: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 985: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 986: Bad Press</a>,
987: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 988: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 989:
990: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 991: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 992: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
993: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
994: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 995: <p>
1.78 deraadt 996:
997: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
998:
1.113 naddy 999: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1000: <a
1.111 jufi 1001: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 1002: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
1003: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1004: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1005:
1006: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1007: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1008: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1009: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1010: <p>
1.74 louis 1011:
1.113 naddy 1012: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1013: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1014: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1015: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1016:
1017: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1018: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1019: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1020: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1021: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1022: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1023: <p>
1.88 louis 1024:
1.113 naddy 1025: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1026: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1027: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1028: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1029:
1030: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1031: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1032: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1033: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1034: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1035: <p>
1.81 louis 1036:
1.113 naddy 1037: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1038: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1039: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1040: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1041:
1042: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1043: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1044: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1045: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1046: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1047: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1048: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1049: <p>
1.90 louis 1050:
1.113 naddy 1051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1052: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1053: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1054: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1055:
1056: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1057: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1058: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1059: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1060: <p>
1.71 louis 1061:
1.69 deraadt 1062: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1063:
1.113 naddy 1064: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1065: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 1066: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1067: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1068:
1069: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1070: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1071: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1072: <p>
1.70 louis 1073:
1.113 naddy 1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1075: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1076: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1077:
1078: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1079: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1080: <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 1081: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1082: <p>
1.68 louis 1083:
1.113 naddy 1084: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1085: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 1086: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1087: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1088:
1.111 jufi 1089: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1090: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1091: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1092: "secure by default" installation.
1093: <p>
1.64 louis 1094:
1.113 naddy 1095: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1096: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1097: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1098: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1099:
1.113 naddy 1100: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1101: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1102: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1103: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1104: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1105: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1106: <p>
1.66 louis 1107:
1.113 naddy 1108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1109: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1110: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1111: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1112:
1113: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1114: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1115: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1116: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1117: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1118: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1119: <p>
1.83 louis 1120:
1.113 naddy 1121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1122: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1123: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1124: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1125:
1126: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1127: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1128: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1129: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1130: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1131: <p>
1.64 louis 1132:
1.113 naddy 1133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1134: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1135: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1136: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1137:
1138: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1139: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1140: <p>
1.65 louis 1141:
1.69 deraadt 1142: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1143:
1.113 naddy 1144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1145: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1146: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1147: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1148:
1149: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1150: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1151: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1152: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1153: <p>
1.88 louis 1154:
1.113 naddy 1155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1156: <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 1157: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1158:
1159: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1160: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1161: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1162: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1163: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1164: <p>
1.60 louis 1165:
1.113 naddy 1166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1167: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1168: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1169: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1170: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1171:
1172: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1173: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1174: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1175: <p>
1.58 louis 1176:
1.113 naddy 1177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1178: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1179: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1180:
1181: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1182: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1183: <p>
1.53 louis 1184:
1.113 naddy 1185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1186: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1187: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1188: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1189:
1190: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1191: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1192: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1193: <p>
1.99 louis 1194:
1.113 naddy 1195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1196: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1197: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1198:
1199: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1200: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1201: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1202: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1203: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1204:
1.113 naddy 1205: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1206: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1207: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1208: </strong></font><br>
1209:
1210: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1211: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1212: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1213: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1214: <p>
1215:
1216: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1217: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1218: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1219: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1220:
1221: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1222: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1223: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1224:
1.113 naddy 1225: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1226: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1227: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1228:
1229: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1230: in
1.113 naddy 1231: <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 1232: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1233: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1234: <p>
1.53 louis 1235:
1.113 naddy 1236: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1237: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1238: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1239: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1240: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1241:
1.58 louis 1242: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1243: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1244:
1.69 deraadt 1245: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1246:
1.113 naddy 1247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1248: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1249: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1250: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1251: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1252:
1.58 louis 1253: Kurt Seifried
1254: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1255: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1256: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1257: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1258:
1.113 naddy 1259: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1260: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1261: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1262: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1263:
1264: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1265: <p>
1.96 louis 1266:
1.113 naddy 1267: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1268: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1269: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1270: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1271:
1272: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1273: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1274: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1275: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1276: <p>
1.86 louis 1277:
1.69 deraadt 1278: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1279:
1.113 naddy 1280: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1281: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1282: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1283: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1284:
1285: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1286: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1287: <p>
1.61 louis 1288:
1.113 naddy 1289: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1290: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1291: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1292: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1293: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1294:
1295: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1296: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1297: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1298: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1299: right -- or at least strives to".
1300: <p>
1.48 louis 1301:
1.113 naddy 1302: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1303: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1304: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1305: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1306: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1307: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1308: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1309: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1310: <p>
1.61 louis 1311:
1.113 naddy 1312: <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 1313: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1314: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1315:
1316: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1317: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1318: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1319: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1320: <p>
1.46 louis 1321:
1.113 naddy 1322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1323: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1324: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1325: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1326:
1327: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1328: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1329: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1330:
1.113 naddy 1331: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1332: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1333: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1334: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1335:
1336: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1337: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1338: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1339: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1340: <p>
1.70 louis 1341:
1.69 deraadt 1342: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1343:
1.113 naddy 1344: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1345: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1346: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1347:
1348: Kurt Seifried
1349: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1350: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1351: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1352: <p>
1.44 philen 1353:
1.113 naddy 1354: <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 1355: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1356: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1357:
1358: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1359: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1360:
1.113 naddy 1361: <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 1362: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1363: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1364:
1365: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1366: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1367:
1.113 naddy 1368: <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 1369: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1370: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1371:
1372: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1373: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1374: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1375: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1376: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1377:
1.113 naddy 1378: <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 1379: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1380: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1381:
1.36 louis 1382: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1383: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1384:
1.113 naddy 1385: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1386: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1387: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1388: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1389:
1390: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1391: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1392:
1.69 deraadt 1393: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1394:
1.113 naddy 1395: <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 1396: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1397: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1398:
1399: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1400: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1401: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1402:
1.113 naddy 1403: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1404: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1405: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1406: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1407:
1408: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1409: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1410: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1411: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1412: <blockquote>
1413: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1414: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1415: <br>
1416: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1417: </code>
1418: </blockquote>
1419: <p>
1420:
1421: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1422: <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>
1423: <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
1424: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1425:
1426: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1427: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1428: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1429: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1430:
1.113 naddy 1431: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1432: <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 1433: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1434:
1435: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1436: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1437: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1438: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1439: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1440: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1441: <p>
1.19 louis 1442:
1.113 naddy 1443: <li><strong>
1444: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1445: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1446:
1447: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1448: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1449: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1450: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1451: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1452: <p>
1.16 louis 1453:
1.113 naddy 1454: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1455: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1456: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1457: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1458:
1.57 louis 1459: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1460: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1461: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1462: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1463:
1.113 naddy 1464: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1465: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1466: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1467: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1468:
1.113 naddy 1469: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1470:
1.113 naddy 1471: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1472: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1473: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1474: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1475:
1.23 louis 1476: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1477: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1478: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1479: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1480: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1481: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1482:
1.113 naddy 1483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1484: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1485: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1486: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1487:
1488: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1489: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1490: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1491: installation.
1.113 naddy 1492: <p>
1.47 louis 1493:
1.113 naddy 1494: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1495: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1496: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1497: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1498:
1499: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1500: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1501:
1.69 deraadt 1502: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1503:
1.113 naddy 1504: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1505: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1506: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1507: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1508:
1509: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1510: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1511: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1512: <p>
1.12 louis 1513:
1.113 naddy 1514: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1515: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1516: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1517: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1518:
1519: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1520: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1521: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1522: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1523: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1524: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1525: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1526: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1527:
1.69 deraadt 1528: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1529:
1.113 naddy 1530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1531: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1532: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1533:
1534: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1535: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1536: available."
1.113 naddy 1537: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1538:
1.69 deraadt 1539: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1540:
1.113 naddy 1541: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1542: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1543: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1544:
1545: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1546: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1547: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1548: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1549: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1550: <p>
1.33 louis 1551:
1.113 naddy 1552: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1553: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1554: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1555: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1556:
1.113 naddy 1557: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1558: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1559: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1560: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1561: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1562: <p>
1.57 louis 1563:
1.69 deraadt 1564: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1565:
1.113 naddy 1566: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1567: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1568: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1569: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1570:
1571: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1572: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1573: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1574:
1.113 naddy 1575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1576: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1577: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1578: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1579: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1580:
1581: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1582: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1583:
1.113 naddy 1584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1585: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1586:
1.113 naddy 1587: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1588:
1.113 naddy 1589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1590: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1591: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1592: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1593:
1594: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1595: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1596:
1.69 deraadt 1597: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1598:
1.113 naddy 1599: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1600: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1601: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1602:
1603: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1604: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1605: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1606:
1.113 naddy 1607: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1608: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1609: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1610: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1611:
1612: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1613: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1614: crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1615: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1616:
1.69 deraadt 1617: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1618:
1.160 jufi 1619: <a name=anzen1></a>
1.113 naddy 1620: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1621: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1622: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1623: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1624:
1625: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1626: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1627: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1628: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1629: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1630: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1631: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1632:
1.113 naddy 1633: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1634: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1635: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1636: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1637:
1638: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1639: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1640: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1641: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1642: <p>
1.15 louis 1643:
1.113 naddy 1644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1645: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1646: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1647: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1648:
1649: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1650: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1651: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1652: columns."
1.113 naddy 1653: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1654:
1.69 deraadt 1655: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1656:
1.113 naddy 1657: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1658: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1659: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1660: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1661:
1662: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1663: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1664:
1.113 naddy 1665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1666: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1667: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1668:
1669: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1670: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1671: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1672:
1.69 deraadt 1673: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1674:
1.113 naddy 1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1676: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1677: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1678: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1679:
1680: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1681: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1682: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1683: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1684: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1685:
1.69 deraadt 1686: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1687:
1.113 naddy 1688: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1689: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1690: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1691:
1.69 deraadt 1692: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1693: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1694: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1695:
1.69 deraadt 1696: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1697:
1.113 naddy 1698: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1699: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1700: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1701: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1702:
1703: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1704: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1705: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1706:
1.113 naddy 1707: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1708: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1709: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1710: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1711: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1712:
1.69 deraadt 1713: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1714:
1.113 naddy 1715: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1716: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1717: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1718: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1719: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1720: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1721:
1722: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1723: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1724: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1725: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1726: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1727: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1728:
1729: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1730:
1.113 naddy 1731: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1732: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1733: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1734:
1.69 deraadt 1735: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1736: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1737: <p>
1.112 naddy 1738:
1.113 naddy 1739: </dl>
1740: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1741:
1.113 naddy 1742: <hr>
1743: <a name=se></a>
1744: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1745:
1.102 niklas 1746: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1747:
1.113 naddy 1748: <dl>
1749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1750: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1751: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1752:
1753: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1754: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1755: <p>
1.102 niklas 1756:
1.113 naddy 1757: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1758:
1.84 niklas 1759: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1760:
1.113 naddy 1761: <dl>
1762: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1763: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1764: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1765:
1766: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1767: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1768: <p>
1.84 niklas 1769:
1.113 naddy 1770: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1771:
1.69 deraadt 1772: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1773:
1.113 naddy 1774: <dl>
1775: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1776: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1777: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1778:
1779: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1780: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1781: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1782: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1783:
1.113 naddy 1784: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1785: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1786: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1787: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1788: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1789:
1.20 louis 1790: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1791: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1792: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1793: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1794: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1795:
1.113 naddy 1796: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1797:
1.113 naddy 1798: <hr>
1799: <a name=jp></a>
1800: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1801:
1.113 naddy 1802: <dl>
1.20 louis 1803:
1.170 louis 1804: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1805:
1806: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1807: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
1808: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1809: </strong></font><br>
1810:
1811: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1812: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1813: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1814: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1815: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1816: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1817: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1818: <p>
1819:
1.69 deraadt 1820: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1821:
1.113 naddy 1822: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1823: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1824: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1825: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1826:
1827: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1828: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1829: translating and reprinting articles from
1830: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 1831: <p>
1.112 naddy 1832:
1.113 naddy 1833: </dl>
1.20 louis 1834:
1.113 naddy 1835: <hr>
1836: <a name=de></a>
1837: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1838: <dl>
1.50 louis 1839:
1.151 louis 1840: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1841:
1842: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1843: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1844: </strong></font><br>
1845:
1846: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1847: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1848: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1849: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1850: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1851:
1852: <p>
1853:
1.72 louis 1854: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1855:
1.113 naddy 1856: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 1857: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 1858: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 1859: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 1860:
1.101 jufi 1861: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 1862: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
1863: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 1864: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 1865: Giving way to
1866: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
1867: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
1868: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
1869: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 1870: <p>
1.72 louis 1871:
1.69 deraadt 1872: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1873:
1.113 naddy 1874: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1875: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 1876: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1877: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 1878:
1879: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1880: <p>
1881: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1882:
1.50 louis 1883:
1.113 naddy 1884: <hr>
1885: <a name=ru></a>
1886: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1887: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1888:
1.69 deraadt 1889: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1890:
1.113 naddy 1891: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1892: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1893: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 1894: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 1895:
1896: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 1897: <p>
1.62 form 1898:
1.69 deraadt 1899: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1900:
1.113 naddy 1901: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 1902: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1903: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 1904: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 1905:
1.59 form 1906: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 1907: <p>
1.112 naddy 1908:
1.113 naddy 1909: </dl>
1.112 naddy 1910:
1.113 naddy 1911: <hr>
1912: <a name=pl></a>
1913: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
1914: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 1915:
1.113 naddy 1916: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 1917: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
1918: Radio, August 2, 2000
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920:
1921: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1922: about differences betwen OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1923: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1924: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1925: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1926: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1927: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1928: <p>
1929:
1930: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1931: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
1932: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
1933: January 2000
1.113 naddy 1934: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1935:
1936: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
1937: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
1938: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
1939: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
1940: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
1941: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 1942: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1943: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 1944: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
1945: with the translation. For the full text, see the
1946: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
1947: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 1948: <p>
1949: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 1950:
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1952: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1953: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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