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29: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
30: <dl>
1.16 louis 31:
1.194 jufi 32: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
33:
34: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
35: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
36: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
37: BSD Today, June 01, 2001
38: </strong></font><br>
39: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
40: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
41: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
42: <br>
43: The new
44: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
45: of tcp_wrappers is now free !<br>
46:
1.190 horacio 47: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
48:
49: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 50:
51: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
52: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
53:
54: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
55: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
56:
57: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
58: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
59:
60: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
61: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
62:
63: <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html">IPF: Free no more?</a>,
64: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
65:
66: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
67: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
68:
69: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
70: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
71:
72: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
73: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
74:
75: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
76: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
77:
78: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
79: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
80:
81: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
82: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
83:
84: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
85: LWN weekly news, Jun 01, 2001<br>
86:
1.192 jufi 87: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
88: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
89: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, Jun 01, 2001<br>
90:
1.193 deraadt 91: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
92: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
93: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 01, 2001<br>
94:
1.190 horacio 95: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 96: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
97: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
98: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
99: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
100: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
101: <p>
1.190 horacio 102:
1.191 jufi 103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.195 ! jufi 104: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html">
! 105: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
! 106: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
! 107: </strong></font><br>
! 108: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
! 109: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>
! 110: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
! 111: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
! 112: <p>
! 113:
! 114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 115: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
116: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
117: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
118: </strong></font><br>
119: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
120: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
121: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
122: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 123: <p>
124:
1.191 jufi 125:
1.186 jufi 126: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 127:
1.186 jufi 128: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
129: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 130: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
131: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 132: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 133:
1.188 jufi 134: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.187 deraadt 135: probability that someone can succesfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 136: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 137: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
138: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 139: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 140: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 141: <p>
142:
1.191 jufi 143:
144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
145: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758">
146: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>
147: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
148: </strong></font><br>
149:
150: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
151: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
152: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
153: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
154: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
155: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
156: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
157: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
158: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
159: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
160: familiar?
161: <p>
162:
1.178 louis 163: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
164:
165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 166: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
167: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 168: </strong></font><br>
169:
170: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
171: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
172: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
173: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
174: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
175: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
176: <p>
177:
1.179 louis 178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
179: <a
1.182 louis 180: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
181: </strong></font><br>
182:
183: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
184: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
185: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
186: <p>
187:
188: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
189: <a
1.179 louis 190: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
191: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
192: </strong></font><br>
193:
194: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
195: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
196: <p>
197:
1.174 louis 198:
1.175 louis 199: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
200:
201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
202: <a
1.179 louis 203: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
204: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
205: </strong></font><br>
206:
207: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
208: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
209: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
210: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
211: <p>
212:
213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
214: <a
1.183 ian 215: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 216: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
217: </strong></font><br>
218:
219: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 220: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 221: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
222: <p>
223:
1.176 louis 224:
1.172 mickey 225: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
226:
227: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 228: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 229: </strong></font><br>
230:
231: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
232: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
233: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 234: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 235: <p>
236:
237: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
238: <a
1.174 louis 239: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
240: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
241: </strong></font><br>
242:
243: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
244: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
245: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
246: <p>
247:
248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
249: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
250: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
251: </strong></font><br>
252:
253: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
254: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
258: <a
259: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
260: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
261: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
262: </strong></font><br>
263:
264: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
265: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
266: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
267: our own Theo de Raadt.
268: <p>
269:
270: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
271: <a
272: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
273: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
274: </strong></font><br>
275:
276: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
277: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
278: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
279: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
280: shut down.]
281: <p>
282:
283: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
284: <a
1.172 mickey 285: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo deRaadt,
286: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 287: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 288: </strong></font><br>
289:
290: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
291: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
292: <p>
293:
294: </li>
295:
1.161 louis 296: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
297:
1.175 louis 298:
299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
300: <a
301: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
302: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
303: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
304: </strong></font><br>
305:
306: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
307: by John Wolley
308: <p>
309:
310: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
311: <a
312: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
313: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
314: </strong></font><br>
315:
316: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
317: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
318: OpenBSD).
319: <p>
320:
1.161 louis 321: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
322: <a
1.171 louis 323: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
324: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
325: </strong></font><br>
326:
327: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
328: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
329: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
330: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
331: and hindsight.
332: <p>
333:
334: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
335: <a
1.168 provos 336: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
337: December 7, 2000
338: </strong></font><br>
339:
340: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
341: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
342: us explain.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
346: <a
1.166 louis 347: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html">System and
348: Network Security - Kernel Options</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
349: December 6, 2000
350: </strong></font><br>
351:
352: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
353: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
354: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
355: <p>
356:
357: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
358: <a
1.162 millert 359: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
360: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
361: </strong></font><br>
362:
363: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 364: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
365: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
366: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
367: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
368: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
369: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 370: <p>
1.162 millert 371:
372: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
373: <a
1.161 louis 374: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
375: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
376: </strong></font><br>
377:
378: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
379: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
380: <p>
381:
1.169 louis 382: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
383: <a
384: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
385: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
386: </strong></font><br>
387:
388: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
389: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
390: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
391: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
392: <p>
393:
1.158 louis 394: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 395:
396: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 397: <a
1.175 louis 398: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
399: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
400: </strong></font><br>
401:
402: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
403: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
404: <p>
405:
406: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
407: <a
1.164 deraadt 408: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 409: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 410: </strong></font><br>
411: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
412: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
416: <a
417: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
418: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
419: </strong></font><br>
420:
421: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
422: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
423: <p>
424:
425: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
426: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
427: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
428: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 429:
1.161 louis 430: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
431: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
432: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
433: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
434: <p>
1.174 louis 435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
436: <a
437: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
438: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
439: </strong></font><br>
440:
441: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
442: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
443: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
444: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
445: much of the attitude too).
446: <p>
1.161 louis 447:
448: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
449: <a
1.157 louis 450: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
451: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
452: </strong></font><br>
453: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
454: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
455: <p>
456:
457: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
458:
459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 460: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
461: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
462: </strong></font><br>
463:
464: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
465: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
466: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
467: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
471: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
472: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
473: </strong></font><br>
474:
475: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
476: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
477: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
478: it because they love coding...
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
482: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
483: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
484: </strong></font><br>
485:
486: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
487: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
488: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
489: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
490: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
491: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
492: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
493: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
494: <p>
495:
496: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 497: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
498: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
499: </strong></font><br>
500:
501: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
502: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
503: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
504: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
505: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
506: the pizza.
507: <p>
508:
509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 510: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
511: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
512: </strong></font><br>
513:
514: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
515: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
516: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
517: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
518: problems.
519: <p>
520:
521: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 522: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
523: </strong></font><br>
524:
525: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
526: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
527: - whether they like it or not.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 531: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
532: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
533: </strong></font><br>
534:
535: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
536: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
537: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 538: <p>
1.148 aaron 539:
540: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 541: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
542: </strong></font><br>
543:
544: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
545: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
546: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
547: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
548: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
549: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
550: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
551: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
552: <p>
553:
554: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 555: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
556: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
557: </strong></font><br>
558:
559: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
560: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
561: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
562: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
563: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
564: <p>
565:
1.138 louis 566: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
567:
568: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 569: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 570: System Takes On Linux</a>,
571: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
572: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 573: </strong></font><br>
574:
1.146 louis 575: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
576: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
577: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
578: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
579: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
580: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
581: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 585: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
586: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
587: </strong></font><br>
588:
589: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
590: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
591: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
592: library after installing the OS.
593: <p>
594:
595: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 596: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 597: Sys Admin, September 2000
598: </strong></font><br>
599:
600: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
601: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
602: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
603: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
604: (<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>,
605: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
606: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
607: <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
1.189 horacio 608: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 609: out of the system.
610: <p>
611:
1.144 louis 612: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
613: <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
614: </strong></font><br>
615:
616: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
617: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
618: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
619: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
620: the IP filtering and address translation.
621: <p>
622:
1.131 louis 623: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
624:
625: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 626: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
627: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
628: </strong></font><br>
629:
630: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
631: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
632: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
633: <p>
634:
635: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 636: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
637: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
638: </strong></font><br>
639:
640: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
641: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
642: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
643: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
644: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
645: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
646: note of"</i>.
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 650: <a
651: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
652: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
653: </strong></font><br>
654:
655: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
656: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
657: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
658: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 662: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 663: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
664: </strong></font><br>
665:
666: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
667: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
668: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
669: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
670: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
671: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
672: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
673: <p>
674:
675: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 676: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
677: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
678: 2000
679: </strong></font><br>
680:
681: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
682: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
683: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
684: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
685: against current industry practices.
686: <p>
687:
688: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 689: <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
690: </strong></font><br>
691:
692: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
693: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
694: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
695: <p>
696:
697: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 698: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
699: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
700: </strong></font><br>
701:
702: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
703: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
704: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
705: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
706: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
707: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
708: careful code reviews, he concludes.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 712: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
713: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
714: </strong></font><br>
715:
716: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
717: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
718: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
719: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
720: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 721: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
722: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
723: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 724: <p>
725:
1.118 louis 726: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
727:
728: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 729: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
730: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
731: </strong></font><br>
732:
733: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
734: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
735: about time. The article mentions that
736: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
737: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
738: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 739: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 740: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
741: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
742: ammended since.
743: <p>
744:
745: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 746: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 747: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 748: </strong></font><br>
749:
750: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
751: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
752: of OpenSSH.
753: <p>
754:
755: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
756: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
757: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
758: </strong></font><br>
759:
760: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 761: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 762: bridging.
763: <p>
764:
765: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
766: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
767: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 768: </strong></font><br>
769:
1.121 deraadt 770: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
771: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 775: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
776: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
777: </strong></font><br>
778:
779: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
780: <p>
781:
782: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 783: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 784: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
785: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 786: </strong></font><br>
787:
1.120 deraadt 788: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
789: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 790: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
791: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
792: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
793: <p>
794:
795: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 796: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
797: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
798: </strong></font><br>
799:
800: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
801: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
802: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
803: protocols and their quirks.
804: <p>
805:
806: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 807: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html">In
1.137 louis 808: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 809: </strong></font><br>
810:
811: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
812: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
813: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 814: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 815: <p>
816:
817: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 818: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
819: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
820: </strong></font><br>
821:
822: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
823: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
824: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
825: <p>
826:
827: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 828: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 829: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
830: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 831: </strong></font><br>
832:
833: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
834: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
835: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
836: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
837: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
838: <p>
839:
1.104 louis 840: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
841:
1.113 naddy 842: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 843: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
844: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
845: </strong></font><br>
846:
847: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
848: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
849: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
850: be a bit dry.
851: <p>
852:
853: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 854: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
855: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
856: 2000
1.128 louis 857: </strong></font><br>
858:
859: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
860: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
861: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
862: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
863: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 864: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 865: <p>
866:
867: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 868: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
869: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 870: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 871:
872: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
873: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
874: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
875: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 876: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
877: <p>
1.110 louis 878:
1.117 louis 879: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
880: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
881: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
882: </strong></font><br>
883:
884: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
885: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
886: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
887: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
888: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
889: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
890: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
891: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
892: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
893: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
894: <p>
895:
1.113 naddy 896: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 897: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 898: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 899:
900: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
901: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 902: <p>
1.108 louis 903:
1.113 naddy 904: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 905: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
906: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 907: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 908:
909: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
910: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
911: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 912: <p>
1.106 louis 913:
1.113 naddy 914: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 915: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
916: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 917: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 918:
919: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
920: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
921: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
922: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 923: <p>
1.107 louis 924:
1.113 naddy 925: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 926: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
927: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 928: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 929:
930: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
931: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 932: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 933: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
934: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 935: <p>
1.105 louis 936:
1.113 naddy 937: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 938: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 939: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 940: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 941:
1.113 naddy 942: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
943: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 944: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 945: <p>
1.104 louis 946:
1.121 deraadt 947: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
948: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
949: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
950: </strong></font><br>
951:
952: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
953: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
954: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
955: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
956: <p>
957:
1.85 louis 958: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
959:
1.113 naddy 960: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 961: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 962: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 963: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 964:
965: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
966: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
967: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
968: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
969: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
970: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
971: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 972: <p>
1.99 louis 973:
1.113 naddy 974: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 975: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 976: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 977: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 978:
979: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
980: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
981: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
982: conditions.
1.113 naddy 983: <p>
1.100 louis 984:
1.113 naddy 985: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 986: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 987: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 988: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 989:
990: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
991: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
992: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
993: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 994: <p>
1.95 louis 995:
1.113 naddy 996: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 997: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 998: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 999: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1000:
1001: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1002: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1003: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1004: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1005: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1006: <p>
1.92 louis 1007:
1.113 naddy 1008: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1009: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1010: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1011: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1012:
1013: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1014: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1015: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1016: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1017: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1018: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1019: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1020: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1021: <p>
1.91 louis 1022:
1.113 naddy 1023: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 1024: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
1025: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1026: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1027:
1028: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1029: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1030: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1031: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1032: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1033: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1034: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1035: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1036: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1037: <p>
1.90 louis 1038:
1.113 naddy 1039: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1040: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1041: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1042: </strong></font><br>
1043: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1044: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1045: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1046: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1047: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1048: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1049: <p>
1050:
1051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1052: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1053: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1054: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1055:
1.113 naddy 1056: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1057: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1058: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1059: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1060: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1061: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1062: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1063: <p>
1.87 louis 1064:
1.113 naddy 1065: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1066: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1067: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1068: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1069:
1070: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1071: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1072: <p>
1.85 louis 1073:
1.113 naddy 1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1075: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1076: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1077: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1078:
1079: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1080: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1081: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1082: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1083: <p>
1.89 louis 1084:
1.113 naddy 1085: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1086: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1087: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1088: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1089:
1090: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1091: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1092: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1093: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1094: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1095:
1.78 deraadt 1096: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1097:
1.113 naddy 1098: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1099: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1100: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1101: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1102: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1103:
1104: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1105: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1106: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1107: <p>
1.83 louis 1108:
1.113 naddy 1109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1110: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1111: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1112: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1113:
1114: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1115: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1116: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1117: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1118: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1119: <p>
1.93 louis 1120:
1.113 naddy 1121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1122: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1123: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1124: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1125:
1.83 louis 1126: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1127: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1128: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1129: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1130: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1131: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1132: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1133: <p>
1.82 aaron 1134:
1.113 naddy 1135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1136: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1137: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1138: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1139:
1.83 louis 1140: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1141: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1142: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1143: <p>
1.80 louis 1144:
1.113 naddy 1145: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1146: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1147: Bad Press</a>,
1148: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1149: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1150:
1151: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1152: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1153: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1154: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1155: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1156: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1157:
1158: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1159:
1.113 naddy 1160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1161: <a
1.111 jufi 1162: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 1163: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
1164: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1165: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1166:
1167: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1168: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1169: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1170: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1171: <p>
1.74 louis 1172:
1.113 naddy 1173: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1174: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1175: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1176: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1177:
1178: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1179: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1180: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1181: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1182: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1183: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1184: <p>
1.88 louis 1185:
1.113 naddy 1186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1187: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1188: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1189: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1190:
1191: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1192: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1193: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1194: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1195: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1196: <p>
1.81 louis 1197:
1.113 naddy 1198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1199: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1200: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1201: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1202:
1203: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1204: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1205: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1206: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1207: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1208: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1209: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1210: <p>
1.90 louis 1211:
1.113 naddy 1212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1213: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1214: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1215: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1216:
1217: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1218: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1219: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1220: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1221: <p>
1.71 louis 1222:
1.69 deraadt 1223: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1224:
1.113 naddy 1225: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1226: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 1227: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1228: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1229:
1230: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1231: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1232: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1233: <p>
1.70 louis 1234:
1.113 naddy 1235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1236: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1237: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1238:
1239: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1240: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1241: <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 1242: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1243: <p>
1.68 louis 1244:
1.113 naddy 1245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1246: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 1247: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1248: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1249:
1.111 jufi 1250: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1251: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1252: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1253: "secure by default" installation.
1254: <p>
1.64 louis 1255:
1.113 naddy 1256: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1257: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1258: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1259: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1262: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1263: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1264: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1265: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1266: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1267: <p>
1.66 louis 1268:
1.113 naddy 1269: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1270: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1271: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1272: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1273:
1274: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1275: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1276: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1277: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1278: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1279: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1280: <p>
1.83 louis 1281:
1.113 naddy 1282: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1283: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1284: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1285: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1286:
1287: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1288: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1289: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1290: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1291: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1292: <p>
1.64 louis 1293:
1.113 naddy 1294: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1295: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1296: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1297: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1298:
1299: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1300: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1301: <p>
1.65 louis 1302:
1.69 deraadt 1303: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1304:
1.113 naddy 1305: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1306: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1307: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1308: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1309:
1310: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1311: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1312: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1313: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1314: <p>
1.88 louis 1315:
1.113 naddy 1316: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1317: <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 1318: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1319:
1320: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1321: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1322: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1323: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1324: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1325: <p>
1.60 louis 1326:
1.113 naddy 1327: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1328: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1329: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1330: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1331: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1332:
1333: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1334: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1335: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1336: <p>
1.58 louis 1337:
1.113 naddy 1338: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1339: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1340: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1341:
1342: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1343: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1344: <p>
1.53 louis 1345:
1.113 naddy 1346: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1347: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1348: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1349: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1350:
1351: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1352: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1353: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1354: <p>
1.99 louis 1355:
1.113 naddy 1356: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1357: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1358: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1359:
1360: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1361: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1362: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1363: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1364: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1365:
1.113 naddy 1366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1367: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1368: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1369: </strong></font><br>
1370:
1371: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1372: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1373: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1374: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1378: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1379: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1380: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1381:
1382: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1383: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1384: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1385:
1.113 naddy 1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1387: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1388: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1389:
1390: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1391: in
1.113 naddy 1392: <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 1393: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1394: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1395: <p>
1.53 louis 1396:
1.113 naddy 1397: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1398: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1399: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1400: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1401: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1402:
1.58 louis 1403: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1404: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1405:
1.69 deraadt 1406: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1407:
1.113 naddy 1408: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1409: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1410: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1411: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1412: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1413:
1.58 louis 1414: Kurt Seifried
1415: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1416: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1417: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1418: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1419:
1.113 naddy 1420: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1421: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1422: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1423: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1424:
1425: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1426: <p>
1.96 louis 1427:
1.113 naddy 1428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1429: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1430: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1431: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1432:
1433: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1434: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1435: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1436: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1437: <p>
1.86 louis 1438:
1.69 deraadt 1439: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1440:
1.113 naddy 1441: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1442: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1443: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1444: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1445:
1446: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1447: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1448: <p>
1.61 louis 1449:
1.113 naddy 1450: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1451: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1452: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1453: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1454: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1455:
1456: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1457: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1458: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1459: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1460: right -- or at least strives to".
1461: <p>
1.48 louis 1462:
1.113 naddy 1463: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1464: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1465: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1466: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1467: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1468: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1469: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1470: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1471: <p>
1.61 louis 1472:
1.113 naddy 1473: <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 1474: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1475: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1476:
1477: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1478: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1479: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1480: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1481: <p>
1.46 louis 1482:
1.113 naddy 1483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1484: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1485: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1486: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1487:
1488: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1489: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1490: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1491:
1.113 naddy 1492: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1493: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1494: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1495: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1496:
1497: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1498: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1499: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1500: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1501: <p>
1.70 louis 1502:
1.69 deraadt 1503: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1504:
1.113 naddy 1505: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1506: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1507: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1508:
1509: Kurt Seifried
1510: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1511: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1512: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1513: <p>
1.44 philen 1514:
1.113 naddy 1515: <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 1516: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1517: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1518:
1519: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1520: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1521:
1.113 naddy 1522: <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 1523: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1524: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1525:
1526: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1527: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1528:
1.113 naddy 1529: <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 1530: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1531: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1532:
1533: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1534: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1535: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1536: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1537: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1538:
1.113 naddy 1539: <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 1540: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1541: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1542:
1.36 louis 1543: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1544: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1545:
1.113 naddy 1546: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1547: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1548: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1549: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1550:
1551: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1552: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1553:
1.69 deraadt 1554: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1555:
1.113 naddy 1556: <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 1557: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1558: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1559:
1560: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1561: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1562: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1563:
1.113 naddy 1564: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1565: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1566: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1567: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1568:
1569: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1570: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1571: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1572: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1573: <blockquote>
1574: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1575: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1576: <br>
1577: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1578: </code>
1579: </blockquote>
1580: <p>
1581:
1582: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1583: <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>
1584: <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
1585: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1586:
1587: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1588: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1589: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1590: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1591:
1.113 naddy 1592: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1593: <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 1594: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1595:
1596: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1597: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1598: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1599: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1600: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1601: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1602: <p>
1.19 louis 1603:
1.113 naddy 1604: <li><strong>
1605: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1606: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1607:
1608: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1609: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1610: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1611: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1612: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1613: <p>
1.16 louis 1614:
1.113 naddy 1615: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1616: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1617: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1618: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1619:
1.57 louis 1620: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1621: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1622: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1623: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1624:
1.113 naddy 1625: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1626: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1627: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1628: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1629:
1.113 naddy 1630: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1631:
1.113 naddy 1632: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1633: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1634: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1636:
1.23 louis 1637: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1638: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1639: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1640: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1641: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1642: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1643:
1.113 naddy 1644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1645: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1646: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1647: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1648:
1649: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1650: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1651: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1652: installation.
1.113 naddy 1653: <p>
1.47 louis 1654:
1.113 naddy 1655: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1656: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1657: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1658: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1659:
1660: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1661: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1662:
1.69 deraadt 1663: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1664:
1.113 naddy 1665: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1666: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1667: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1668: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1669:
1670: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1671: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1672: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1673: <p>
1.12 louis 1674:
1.113 naddy 1675: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1676: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1677: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1678: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1679:
1680: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1681: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1682: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1683: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1684: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1685: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1686: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1687: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1688:
1.69 deraadt 1689: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1690:
1.113 naddy 1691: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1692: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1693: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1694:
1695: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1696: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1697: available."
1.113 naddy 1698: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1699:
1.69 deraadt 1700: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1701:
1.113 naddy 1702: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1703: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1704: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1705:
1706: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1707: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1708: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1709: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1710: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1711: <p>
1.33 louis 1712:
1.113 naddy 1713: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1714: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1715: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1716: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1717:
1.113 naddy 1718: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1719: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1720: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1721: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1722: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1723: <p>
1.57 louis 1724:
1.69 deraadt 1725: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1726:
1.113 naddy 1727: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1728: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1729: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1730: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1731:
1732: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1733: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1734: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1735:
1.113 naddy 1736: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1737: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1738: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1739: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1740: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1741:
1742: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1743: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1744:
1.113 naddy 1745: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1746: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1747:
1.113 naddy 1748: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1749:
1.113 naddy 1750: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1751: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1752: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1753: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1754:
1755: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1756: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1757:
1.69 deraadt 1758: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1759:
1.113 naddy 1760: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1761: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1762: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1763:
1764: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1765: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1766: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1767:
1.113 naddy 1768: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1769: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1770: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1771: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1772:
1773: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1774: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1775: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1776: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1777:
1.69 deraadt 1778: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1779:
1.160 jufi 1780: <a name=anzen1></a>
1.113 naddy 1781: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1782: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1783: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1784: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1785:
1786: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1787: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1788: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1789: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1790: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1791: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1792: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1793:
1.113 naddy 1794: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1795: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1796: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1797: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1798:
1799: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1800: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1801: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1802: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1803: <p>
1.15 louis 1804:
1.113 naddy 1805: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1806: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1807: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1808: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1809:
1810: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1811: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1812: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1813: columns."
1.113 naddy 1814: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1815:
1.69 deraadt 1816: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1817:
1.113 naddy 1818: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1819: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1820: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1821: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1822:
1823: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1824: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1825:
1.113 naddy 1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1827: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1828: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1829:
1830: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1831: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1832: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1833:
1.69 deraadt 1834: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1835:
1.113 naddy 1836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1837: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1838: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1839: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1840:
1841: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1842: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1843: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1844: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1845: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1846:
1.69 deraadt 1847: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1848:
1.113 naddy 1849: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1850: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1851: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1852:
1.69 deraadt 1853: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1854: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1855: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1856:
1.69 deraadt 1857: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1858:
1.113 naddy 1859: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1860: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1861: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1862: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1863:
1864: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1865: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1866: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1867:
1.113 naddy 1868: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1869: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1870: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1871: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1872: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1873:
1.69 deraadt 1874: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1875:
1.113 naddy 1876: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1877: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1878: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1879: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1880: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1881: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1882:
1883: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1884: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1885: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1886: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1887: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1888: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1889:
1890: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1891:
1.113 naddy 1892: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1893: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1894: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1895:
1.69 deraadt 1896: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1897: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1898: <p>
1.112 naddy 1899:
1.113 naddy 1900: </dl>
1901: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1902:
1.113 naddy 1903: <hr>
1904: <a name=se></a>
1905: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1906:
1.102 niklas 1907: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1908:
1.113 naddy 1909: <dl>
1910: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1911: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1912: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1913:
1914: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1915: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1916: <p>
1.102 niklas 1917:
1.113 naddy 1918: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1919:
1.84 niklas 1920: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1921:
1.113 naddy 1922: <dl>
1923: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1924: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1925: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1926:
1927: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1928: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1929: <p>
1.84 niklas 1930:
1.113 naddy 1931: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1932:
1.69 deraadt 1933: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1934:
1.113 naddy 1935: <dl>
1936: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1937: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1938: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1939:
1940: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1941: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1942: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1943: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1944:
1.113 naddy 1945: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1946: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1947: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1948: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1949: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1950:
1.20 louis 1951: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1952: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1953: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1954: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1955: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1956:
1.113 naddy 1957: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <hr>
1960: <a name=jp></a>
1961: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1962:
1.113 naddy 1963: <dl>
1.20 louis 1964:
1.170 louis 1965: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1966:
1967: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1968: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
1969: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1973: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1974: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1975: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1976: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1977: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1978: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1979: <p>
1980:
1.69 deraadt 1981: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1982:
1.113 naddy 1983: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1984: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1985: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1986: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1987:
1988: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1989: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1990: translating and reprinting articles from
1991: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 1992: <p>
1.112 naddy 1993:
1.113 naddy 1994: </dl>
1.20 louis 1995:
1.113 naddy 1996: <hr>
1997: <a name=de></a>
1998: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1999: <dl>
1.50 louis 2000:
1.151 louis 2001: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2002:
2003: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2004: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2005: </strong></font><br>
2006:
2007: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2008: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2009: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2010: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2011: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2012:
2013: <p>
2014:
1.72 louis 2015: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2016:
1.113 naddy 2017: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2018: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2019: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2020: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2021:
1.101 jufi 2022: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2023: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2024: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2025: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2026: Giving way to
2027: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2028: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2029: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2030: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2031: <p>
1.72 louis 2032:
1.69 deraadt 2033: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2034:
1.113 naddy 2035: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2036: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2037: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2038: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2039:
2040: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2041: <p>
2042: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2043:
1.50 louis 2044:
1.113 naddy 2045: <hr>
2046: <a name=ru></a>
2047: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2048: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2049:
1.69 deraadt 2050: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2051:
1.113 naddy 2052: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2053: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2054: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2055: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2056:
2057: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2058: <p>
1.62 form 2059:
1.69 deraadt 2060: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2061:
1.113 naddy 2062: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2063: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2064: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2065: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2066:
1.59 form 2067: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2068: <p>
1.112 naddy 2069:
1.113 naddy 2070: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2071:
1.113 naddy 2072: <hr>
2073: <a name=pl></a>
2074: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2075: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2076:
1.113 naddy 2077: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2078: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2079: Radio, August 2, 2000
2080: </strong></font><br>
2081:
2082: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2083: about differences betwen OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2084: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2085: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2086: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2087: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2088: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2089: <p>
2090:
2091: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2092: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2093: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2094: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2095: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2096:
2097: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2098: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2099: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2100: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2101: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2102: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2103: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2104: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2105: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2106: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2107: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2108: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2109: <p>
2110: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2111:
1.113 naddy 2112: <hr>
2113: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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