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29: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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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>
1.197 ! deraadt 45: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
! 46: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
! 47: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 48:
1.190 horacio 49: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
50:
51: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 52:
53: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
54: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
55:
56: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
57: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
58:
59: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
60: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
61:
62: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
63: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
64:
65: <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html">IPF: Free no more?</a>,
66: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
67:
68: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
69: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
70:
71: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
72: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
73:
74: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
75: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
76:
77: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
78: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
79:
80: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
81: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
82:
83: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
84: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
85:
86: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
87: LWN weekly news, Jun 01, 2001<br>
88:
1.192 jufi 89: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
90: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
91: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, Jun 01, 2001<br>
92:
1.193 deraadt 93: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
94: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
95: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 01, 2001<br>
96:
1.196 deraadt 97: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
98: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
99:
1.190 horacio 100: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 101: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
102: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
103: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
104: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
105: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
106: <p>
1.190 horacio 107:
1.191 jufi 108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.195 jufi 109: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html">
110: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
111: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
112: </strong></font><br>
113: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
114: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>
115: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
116: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
117: <p>
118:
119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 120: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
121: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
122: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
123: </strong></font><br>
124: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
125: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
126: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
127: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 128: <p>
129:
1.191 jufi 130:
1.186 jufi 131: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 132:
1.186 jufi 133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
134: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 135: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
136: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 137: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 138:
1.188 jufi 139: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.187 deraadt 140: probability that someone can succesfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 141: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 142: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
143: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 144: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 145: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 146: <p>
147:
1.191 jufi 148:
149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
150: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758">
151: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>
152: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
153: </strong></font><br>
154:
155: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
156: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
157: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
158: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
159: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
160: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
161: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
162: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
163: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
164: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
165: familiar?
166: <p>
167:
1.178 louis 168: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 171: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
172: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 173: </strong></font><br>
174:
175: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
176: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
177: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
178: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
179: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
180: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
181: <p>
182:
1.179 louis 183: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
184: <a
1.182 louis 185: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
186: </strong></font><br>
187:
188: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
189: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
190: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
191: <p>
192:
193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
194: <a
1.179 louis 195: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
196: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
197: </strong></font><br>
198:
199: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
200: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
201: <p>
202:
1.174 louis 203:
1.175 louis 204: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
205:
206: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
207: <a
1.179 louis 208: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
209: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
210: </strong></font><br>
211:
212: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
213: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
214: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
215: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
219: <a
1.183 ian 220: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 221: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
222: </strong></font><br>
223:
224: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 225: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 226: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
227: <p>
228:
1.176 louis 229:
1.172 mickey 230: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
231:
232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 233: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 234: </strong></font><br>
235:
236: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
237: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
238: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 239: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
243: <a
1.174 louis 244: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
245: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
246: </strong></font><br>
247:
248: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
249: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
250: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
254: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
255: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
256: </strong></font><br>
257:
258: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
259: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
260: <p>
261:
262: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
263: <a
264: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
265: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
266: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
267: </strong></font><br>
268:
269: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
270: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
271: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
272: our own Theo de Raadt.
273: <p>
274:
275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
276: <a
277: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
278: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
279: </strong></font><br>
280:
281: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
282: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
283: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
284: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
285: shut down.]
286: <p>
287:
288: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
289: <a
1.172 mickey 290: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo deRaadt,
291: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 292: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 293: </strong></font><br>
294:
295: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
296: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
297: <p>
298:
299: </li>
300:
1.161 louis 301: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
302:
1.175 louis 303:
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
305: <a
306: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
307: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
308: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
309: </strong></font><br>
310:
311: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
312: by John Wolley
313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
316: <a
317: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
318: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
319: </strong></font><br>
320:
321: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
322: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
323: OpenBSD).
324: <p>
325:
1.161 louis 326: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
327: <a
1.171 louis 328: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
329: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
330: </strong></font><br>
331:
332: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
333: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
334: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
335: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
336: and hindsight.
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
340: <a
1.168 provos 341: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
342: December 7, 2000
343: </strong></font><br>
344:
345: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
346: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
347: us explain.
348: <p>
349:
350: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
351: <a
1.166 louis 352: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html">System and
353: Network Security - Kernel Options</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
354: December 6, 2000
355: </strong></font><br>
356:
357: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
358: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
359: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
360: <p>
361:
362: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
363: <a
1.162 millert 364: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
365: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
366: </strong></font><br>
367:
368: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 369: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
370: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
371: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
372: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
373: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
374: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 375: <p>
1.162 millert 376:
377: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
378: <a
1.161 louis 379: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
380: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
381: </strong></font><br>
382:
383: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
384: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
385: <p>
386:
1.169 louis 387: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
388: <a
389: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
390: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
391: </strong></font><br>
392:
393: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
394: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
395: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
396: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
397: <p>
398:
1.158 louis 399: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 400:
401: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 402: <a
1.175 louis 403: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
404: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
405: </strong></font><br>
406:
407: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
408: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
412: <a
1.164 deraadt 413: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 414: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 415: </strong></font><br>
416: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
417: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
421: <a
422: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
423: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
424: </strong></font><br>
425:
426: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
427: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
431: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
432: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
433: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 434:
1.161 louis 435: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
436: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
437: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
438: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
439: <p>
1.174 louis 440: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
441: <a
442: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
443: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
444: </strong></font><br>
445:
446: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
447: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
448: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
449: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
450: much of the attitude too).
451: <p>
1.161 louis 452:
453: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
454: <a
1.157 louis 455: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
456: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
457: </strong></font><br>
458: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
459: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
460: <p>
461:
462: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
463:
464: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 465: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
466: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
467: </strong></font><br>
468:
469: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
470: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
471: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
472: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
476: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
477: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
478: </strong></font><br>
479:
480: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
481: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
482: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
483: it because they love coding...
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
487: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
488: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
489: </strong></font><br>
490:
491: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
492: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
493: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
494: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
495: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
496: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
497: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
498: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
499: <p>
500:
501: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 502: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
503: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
504: </strong></font><br>
505:
506: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
507: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
508: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
509: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
510: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
511: the pizza.
512: <p>
513:
514: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 515: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
516: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
517: </strong></font><br>
518:
519: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
520: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
521: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
522: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
523: problems.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 527: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
528: </strong></font><br>
529:
530: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
531: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
532: - whether they like it or not.
533: <p>
534:
535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 536: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
537: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
538: </strong></font><br>
539:
540: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
541: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
542: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 543: <p>
1.148 aaron 544:
545: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 546: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
547: </strong></font><br>
548:
549: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
550: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
551: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
552: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
553: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
554: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
555: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
556: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
557: <p>
558:
559: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 560: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
561: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
562: </strong></font><br>
563:
564: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
565: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
566: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
567: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
568: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
569: <p>
570:
1.138 louis 571: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
572:
573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 574: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 575: System Takes On Linux</a>,
576: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
577: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 578: </strong></font><br>
579:
1.146 louis 580: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
581: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
582: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
583: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
584: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
585: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
586: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 587: <p>
588:
589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 590: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
591: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
592: </strong></font><br>
593:
594: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
595: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
596: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
597: library after installing the OS.
598: <p>
599:
600: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 601: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 602: Sys Admin, September 2000
603: </strong></font><br>
604:
605: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
606: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
607: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
608: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
609: (<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>,
610: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
611: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
612: <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 613: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 614: out of the system.
615: <p>
616:
1.144 louis 617: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
618: <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
619: </strong></font><br>
620:
621: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
622: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
623: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
624: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
625: the IP filtering and address translation.
626: <p>
627:
1.131 louis 628: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
629:
630: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 631: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
632: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
633: </strong></font><br>
634:
635: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
636: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
637: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 641: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
642: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
643: </strong></font><br>
644:
645: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
646: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
647: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
648: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
649: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
650: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
651: note of"</i>.
652: <p>
653:
654: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 655: <a
656: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
657: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
658: </strong></font><br>
659:
660: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
661: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
662: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
663: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
664: <p>
665:
666: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 667: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 668: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
669: </strong></font><br>
670:
671: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
672: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
673: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
674: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
675: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
676: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
677: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
678: <p>
679:
680: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 681: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
682: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
683: 2000
684: </strong></font><br>
685:
686: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
687: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
688: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
689: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
690: against current industry practices.
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 694: <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
695: </strong></font><br>
696:
697: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
698: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
699: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 703: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
704: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
705: </strong></font><br>
706:
707: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
708: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
709: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
710: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
711: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
712: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
713: careful code reviews, he concludes.
714: <p>
715:
716: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 717: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
718: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
719: </strong></font><br>
720:
721: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
722: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
723: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
724: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
725: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 726: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
727: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
728: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 729: <p>
730:
1.118 louis 731: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
732:
733: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 734: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
735: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
736: </strong></font><br>
737:
738: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
739: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
740: about time. The article mentions that
741: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
742: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
743: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 744: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 745: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
746: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
747: ammended since.
748: <p>
749:
750: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 751: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 752: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 753: </strong></font><br>
754:
755: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
756: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
757: of OpenSSH.
758: <p>
759:
760: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
761: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
762: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
763: </strong></font><br>
764:
765: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 766: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 767: bridging.
768: <p>
769:
770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
771: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
772: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 773: </strong></font><br>
774:
1.121 deraadt 775: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
776: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 777: <p>
778:
779: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 780: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
781: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
782: </strong></font><br>
783:
784: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 788: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 789: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
790: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 791: </strong></font><br>
792:
1.120 deraadt 793: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
794: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 795: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
796: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
797: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
798: <p>
799:
800: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 801: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
802: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
803: </strong></font><br>
804:
805: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
806: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
807: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
808: protocols and their quirks.
809: <p>
810:
811: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 812: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html">In
1.137 louis 813: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 814: </strong></font><br>
815:
816: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
817: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
818: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 819: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 820: <p>
821:
822: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 823: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
824: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
825: </strong></font><br>
826:
827: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
828: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
829: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 833: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 834: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
835: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 836: </strong></font><br>
837:
838: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
839: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
840: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
841: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
842: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
843: <p>
844:
1.104 louis 845: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
846:
1.113 naddy 847: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 848: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
849: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
850: </strong></font><br>
851:
852: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
853: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
854: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
855: be a bit dry.
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 859: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
860: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
861: 2000
1.128 louis 862: </strong></font><br>
863:
864: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
865: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
866: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
867: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
868: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 869: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 873: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
874: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 875: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 876:
877: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
878: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
879: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
880: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 881: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
882: <p>
1.110 louis 883:
1.117 louis 884: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
885: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
886: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
887: </strong></font><br>
888:
889: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
890: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
891: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
892: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
893: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
894: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
895: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
896: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
897: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
898: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
899: <p>
900:
1.113 naddy 901: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 902: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 903: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 904:
905: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
906: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 907: <p>
1.108 louis 908:
1.113 naddy 909: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 910: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
911: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 912: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 913:
914: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
915: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
916: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 917: <p>
1.106 louis 918:
1.113 naddy 919: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 920: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
921: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 922: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 923:
924: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
925: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
926: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
927: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 928: <p>
1.107 louis 929:
1.113 naddy 930: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 931: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
932: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 933: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 934:
935: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
936: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 937: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 938: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
939: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 940: <p>
1.105 louis 941:
1.113 naddy 942: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 943: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 944: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 945: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 946:
1.113 naddy 947: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
948: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 949: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 950: <p>
1.104 louis 951:
1.121 deraadt 952: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
953: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
954: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
955: </strong></font><br>
956:
957: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
958: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
959: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
960: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
961: <p>
962:
1.85 louis 963: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
964:
1.113 naddy 965: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 966: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 967: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 968: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 969:
970: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
971: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
972: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
973: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
974: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
975: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
976: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 977: <p>
1.99 louis 978:
1.113 naddy 979: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 980: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 981: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 982: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 983:
984: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
985: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
986: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
987: conditions.
1.113 naddy 988: <p>
1.100 louis 989:
1.113 naddy 990: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 991: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 992: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 993: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 994:
995: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
996: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
997: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
998: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 999: <p>
1.95 louis 1000:
1.113 naddy 1001: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1002: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1003: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1004: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1005:
1006: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1007: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1008: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1009: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1010: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1011: <p>
1.92 louis 1012:
1.113 naddy 1013: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1014: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1015: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1016: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1017:
1018: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1019: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1020: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1021: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1022: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1023: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1024: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1025: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1026: <p>
1.91 louis 1027:
1.113 naddy 1028: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 1029: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
1030: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1031: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1032:
1033: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1034: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1035: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1036: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1037: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1038: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1039: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1040: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1041: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1042: <p>
1.90 louis 1043:
1.113 naddy 1044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1045: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1046: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1047: </strong></font><br>
1048: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1049: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1050: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1051: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1052: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1053: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1054: <p>
1055:
1056: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1057: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1058: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1059: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1060:
1.113 naddy 1061: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1062: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1063: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1064: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1065: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1066: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1067: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1068: <p>
1.87 louis 1069:
1.113 naddy 1070: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1071: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1072: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1073: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1074:
1075: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1076: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1077: <p>
1.85 louis 1078:
1.113 naddy 1079: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1080: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1081: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1082: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1083:
1084: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1085: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1086: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1087: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1088: <p>
1.89 louis 1089:
1.113 naddy 1090: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1091: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1092: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1093: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1094:
1095: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1096: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1097: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1098: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1099: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1100:
1.78 deraadt 1101: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1102:
1.113 naddy 1103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1104: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1105: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1106: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1107: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1108:
1109: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1110: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1111: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1112: <p>
1.83 louis 1113:
1.113 naddy 1114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1115: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1116: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1117: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1118:
1119: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1120: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1121: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1122: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1123: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1124: <p>
1.93 louis 1125:
1.113 naddy 1126: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1127: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1128: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1129: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1130:
1.83 louis 1131: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1132: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1133: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1134: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1135: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1136: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1137: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1138: <p>
1.82 aaron 1139:
1.113 naddy 1140: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1141: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1142: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1143: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1144:
1.83 louis 1145: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1146: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1147: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1148: <p>
1.80 louis 1149:
1.113 naddy 1150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1151: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1152: Bad Press</a>,
1153: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1154: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1155:
1156: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1157: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1158: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1159: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1160: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1161: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1162:
1163: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1164:
1.113 naddy 1165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1166: <a
1.111 jufi 1167: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 1168: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
1169: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1170: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1171:
1172: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1173: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1174: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1175: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1176: <p>
1.74 louis 1177:
1.113 naddy 1178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1179: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1180: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1181: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1182:
1183: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1184: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1185: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1186: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1187: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1188: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1189: <p>
1.88 louis 1190:
1.113 naddy 1191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1192: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1193: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1194: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1195:
1196: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1197: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1198: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1199: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1200: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1201: <p>
1.81 louis 1202:
1.113 naddy 1203: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1204: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1205: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1206: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1207:
1208: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1209: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1210: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1211: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1212: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1213: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1214: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1215: <p>
1.90 louis 1216:
1.113 naddy 1217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1218: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1219: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1220: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1221:
1222: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1223: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1224: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1225: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1226: <p>
1.71 louis 1227:
1.69 deraadt 1228: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1229:
1.113 naddy 1230: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1231: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 1232: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1233: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1234:
1235: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1236: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1237: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1238: <p>
1.70 louis 1239:
1.113 naddy 1240: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1241: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1242: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1243:
1244: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1245: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1246: <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 1247: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1248: <p>
1.68 louis 1249:
1.113 naddy 1250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1251: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 1252: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1253: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1254:
1.111 jufi 1255: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1256: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1257: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1258: "secure by default" installation.
1259: <p>
1.64 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1262: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1263: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1264: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1265:
1.113 naddy 1266: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1267: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1268: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1269: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1270: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1271: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1272: <p>
1.66 louis 1273:
1.113 naddy 1274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1275: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1276: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1277: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1278:
1279: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1280: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1281: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1282: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1283: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1284: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1285: <p>
1.83 louis 1286:
1.113 naddy 1287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1288: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1289: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1290: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1291:
1292: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1293: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1294: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1295: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1296: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1297: <p>
1.64 louis 1298:
1.113 naddy 1299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1300: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1301: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1303:
1304: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1305: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1306: <p>
1.65 louis 1307:
1.69 deraadt 1308: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1309:
1.113 naddy 1310: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1311: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1312: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1313: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1314:
1315: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1316: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1317: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1318: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1319: <p>
1.88 louis 1320:
1.113 naddy 1321: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1322: <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 1323: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1324:
1325: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1326: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1327: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1328: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1329: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1330: <p>
1.60 louis 1331:
1.113 naddy 1332: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1333: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1334: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1335: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1336: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1337:
1338: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1339: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1340: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1341: <p>
1.58 louis 1342:
1.113 naddy 1343: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1344: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1345: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1346:
1347: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1348: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1349: <p>
1.53 louis 1350:
1.113 naddy 1351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1352: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1353: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1354: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1355:
1356: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1357: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1358: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1359: <p>
1.99 louis 1360:
1.113 naddy 1361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1362: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1363: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1364:
1365: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1366: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1367: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1368: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1369: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1370:
1.113 naddy 1371: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1372: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1373: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1374: </strong></font><br>
1375:
1376: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1377: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1378: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1379: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1380: <p>
1381:
1382: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1383: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1384: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1385: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1386:
1387: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1388: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1389: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1390:
1.113 naddy 1391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1392: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1393: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1394:
1395: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1396: in
1.113 naddy 1397: <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 1398: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1399: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1400: <p>
1.53 louis 1401:
1.113 naddy 1402: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1403: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1404: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1405: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1406: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1407:
1.58 louis 1408: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1409: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1410:
1.69 deraadt 1411: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1412:
1.113 naddy 1413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1414: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1415: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1416: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1417: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1418:
1.58 louis 1419: Kurt Seifried
1420: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1421: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1422: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1423: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1424:
1.113 naddy 1425: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1426: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1427: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1428: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1429:
1430: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1431: <p>
1.96 louis 1432:
1.113 naddy 1433: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1434: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1435: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1436: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1437:
1438: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1439: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1440: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1441: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1442: <p>
1.86 louis 1443:
1.69 deraadt 1444: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1445:
1.113 naddy 1446: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1447: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1448: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1449: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1450:
1451: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1452: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1453: <p>
1.61 louis 1454:
1.113 naddy 1455: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1456: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1457: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1458: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1459: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1460:
1461: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1462: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1463: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1464: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1465: right -- or at least strives to".
1466: <p>
1.48 louis 1467:
1.113 naddy 1468: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1469: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1470: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1471: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1472: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1473: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1474: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1475: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1476: <p>
1.61 louis 1477:
1.113 naddy 1478: <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 1479: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1480: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1481:
1482: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1483: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1484: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1485: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1486: <p>
1.46 louis 1487:
1.113 naddy 1488: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1489: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1490: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1491: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1492:
1493: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1494: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1495: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1496:
1.113 naddy 1497: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1498: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1499: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1500: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1501:
1502: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1503: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1504: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1505: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1506: <p>
1.70 louis 1507:
1.69 deraadt 1508: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1509:
1.113 naddy 1510: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1511: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1512: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1513:
1514: Kurt Seifried
1515: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1516: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1517: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1518: <p>
1.44 philen 1519:
1.113 naddy 1520: <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 1521: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1522: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1523:
1524: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1525: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1526:
1.113 naddy 1527: <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 1528: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1529: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1530:
1531: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1532: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1533:
1.113 naddy 1534: <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 1535: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1536: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1537:
1538: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1539: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1540: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1541: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1542: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1543:
1.113 naddy 1544: <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 1545: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1546: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1547:
1.36 louis 1548: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1549: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1550:
1.113 naddy 1551: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1552: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1553: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1554: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1555:
1556: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1557: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1558:
1.69 deraadt 1559: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1560:
1.113 naddy 1561: <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 1562: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1563: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1564:
1565: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1566: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1567: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1568:
1.113 naddy 1569: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1570: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1571: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1572: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1573:
1574: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1575: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1576: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1577: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1578: <blockquote>
1579: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1580: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1581: <br>
1582: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1583: </code>
1584: </blockquote>
1585: <p>
1586:
1587: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1588: <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>
1589: <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
1590: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1591:
1592: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1593: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1594: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1595: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1596:
1.113 naddy 1597: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1598: <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 1599: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1600:
1601: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1602: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1603: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1604: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1605: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1606: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1607: <p>
1.19 louis 1608:
1.113 naddy 1609: <li><strong>
1610: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1611: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1612:
1613: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1614: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1615: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1616: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1617: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1618: <p>
1.16 louis 1619:
1.113 naddy 1620: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1621: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1622: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1623: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1624:
1.57 louis 1625: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1626: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1627: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1628: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1629:
1.113 naddy 1630: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1631: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1632: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1633: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1634:
1.113 naddy 1635: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1636:
1.113 naddy 1637: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1638: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1639: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1640: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1641:
1.23 louis 1642: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1643: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1644: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1645: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1646: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1647: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1648:
1.113 naddy 1649: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1650: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1651: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1652: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1653:
1654: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1655: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1656: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1657: installation.
1.113 naddy 1658: <p>
1.47 louis 1659:
1.113 naddy 1660: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1661: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1662: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1663: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1664:
1665: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1666: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1667:
1.69 deraadt 1668: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1669:
1.113 naddy 1670: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1671: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1672: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1673: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1674:
1675: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1676: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1677: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1678: <p>
1.12 louis 1679:
1.113 naddy 1680: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1681: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1682: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1683: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1684:
1685: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1686: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1687: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1688: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1689: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1690: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1691: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1692: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1693:
1.69 deraadt 1694: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1695:
1.113 naddy 1696: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1697: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1698: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1699:
1700: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1701: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1702: available."
1.113 naddy 1703: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1704:
1.69 deraadt 1705: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1706:
1.113 naddy 1707: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1708: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1709: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1710:
1711: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1712: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1713: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1714: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1715: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1716: <p>
1.33 louis 1717:
1.113 naddy 1718: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1719: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1720: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1721: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1722:
1.113 naddy 1723: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1724: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1725: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1726: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1727: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1728: <p>
1.57 louis 1729:
1.69 deraadt 1730: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1731:
1.113 naddy 1732: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1733: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1734: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1735: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1736:
1737: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1738: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1739: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1740:
1.113 naddy 1741: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1742: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1743: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1744: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1745: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1746:
1747: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1748: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1749:
1.113 naddy 1750: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1751: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1752:
1.113 naddy 1753: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1754:
1.113 naddy 1755: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1756: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1757: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1758: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1759:
1760: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1761: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1762:
1.69 deraadt 1763: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1764:
1.113 naddy 1765: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1766: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1767: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1768:
1769: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1770: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1771: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1772:
1.113 naddy 1773: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1774: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1775: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1776: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1777:
1778: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1779: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1780: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1781: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1782:
1.69 deraadt 1783: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1784:
1.160 jufi 1785: <a name=anzen1></a>
1.113 naddy 1786: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1787: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1788: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1789: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1790:
1791: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1792: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1793: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1794: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1795: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1796: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1797: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1798:
1.113 naddy 1799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1800: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1801: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1802: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1803:
1804: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1805: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1806: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1807: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1808: <p>
1.15 louis 1809:
1.113 naddy 1810: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1811: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1812: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1813: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1814:
1815: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1816: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1817: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1818: columns."
1.113 naddy 1819: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1820:
1.69 deraadt 1821: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1822:
1.113 naddy 1823: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1824: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1825: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1826: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1827:
1828: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1829: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1830:
1.113 naddy 1831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1832: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1833: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1834:
1835: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1836: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1837: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1838:
1.69 deraadt 1839: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1840:
1.113 naddy 1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1842: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1843: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1844: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1845:
1846: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1847: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1848: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1849: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1850: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1851:
1.69 deraadt 1852: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1853:
1.113 naddy 1854: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1855: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1856: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1857:
1.69 deraadt 1858: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1859: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1860: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1861:
1.69 deraadt 1862: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1863:
1.113 naddy 1864: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1865: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1866: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1867: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1868:
1869: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1870: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1871: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1872:
1.113 naddy 1873: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1874: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1875: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1876: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1877: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1878:
1.69 deraadt 1879: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1880:
1.113 naddy 1881: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1882: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1883: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1884: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1885: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1886: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1887:
1888: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1889: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1890: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1891: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1892: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1893: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1894:
1895: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1896:
1.113 naddy 1897: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1898: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1899: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1900:
1.69 deraadt 1901: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1902: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1903: <p>
1.112 naddy 1904:
1.113 naddy 1905: </dl>
1906: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1907:
1.113 naddy 1908: <hr>
1909: <a name=se></a>
1910: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1911:
1.102 niklas 1912: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1913:
1.113 naddy 1914: <dl>
1915: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1916: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1917: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1918:
1919: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1920: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1921: <p>
1.102 niklas 1922:
1.113 naddy 1923: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1924:
1.84 niklas 1925: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1926:
1.113 naddy 1927: <dl>
1928: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1929: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1930: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1931:
1932: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1933: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1934: <p>
1.84 niklas 1935:
1.113 naddy 1936: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1937:
1.69 deraadt 1938: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1939:
1.113 naddy 1940: <dl>
1941: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1942: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1943: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1944:
1945: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1946: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1947: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1948: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1949:
1.113 naddy 1950: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1951: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1952: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1953: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1954: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1955:
1.20 louis 1956: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1957: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1958: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1959: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1960: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1961:
1.113 naddy 1962: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1963:
1.113 naddy 1964: <hr>
1965: <a name=jp></a>
1966: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1967:
1.113 naddy 1968: <dl>
1.20 louis 1969:
1.170 louis 1970: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1971:
1972: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1973: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
1974: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1975: </strong></font><br>
1976:
1977: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1978: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1979: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1980: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1981: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1982: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1983: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1984: <p>
1985:
1.69 deraadt 1986: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1987:
1.113 naddy 1988: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1989: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1990: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1991: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1992:
1993: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1994: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1995: translating and reprinting articles from
1996: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 1997: <p>
1.112 naddy 1998:
1.113 naddy 1999: </dl>
1.20 louis 2000:
1.113 naddy 2001: <hr>
2002: <a name=de></a>
2003: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2004: <dl>
1.50 louis 2005:
1.151 louis 2006: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2007:
2008: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2009: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2010: </strong></font><br>
2011:
2012: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2013: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2014: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2015: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2016: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2017:
2018: <p>
2019:
1.72 louis 2020: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2021:
1.113 naddy 2022: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2023: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2024: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2025: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2026:
1.101 jufi 2027: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2028: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2029: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2030: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2031: Giving way to
2032: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2033: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2034: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2035: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2036: <p>
1.72 louis 2037:
1.69 deraadt 2038: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2039:
1.113 naddy 2040: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2041: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2042: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2043: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2044:
2045: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2046: <p>
2047: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2048:
1.50 louis 2049:
1.113 naddy 2050: <hr>
2051: <a name=ru></a>
2052: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2053: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2054:
1.69 deraadt 2055: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2056:
1.113 naddy 2057: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2058: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2059: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2060: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2061:
2062: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2063: <p>
1.62 form 2064:
1.69 deraadt 2065: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2066:
1.113 naddy 2067: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2068: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2069: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2070: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2071:
1.59 form 2072: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2073: <p>
1.112 naddy 2074:
1.113 naddy 2075: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2076:
1.113 naddy 2077: <hr>
2078: <a name=pl></a>
2079: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2080: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2081:
1.113 naddy 2082: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2083: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2084: Radio, August 2, 2000
2085: </strong></font><br>
2086:
2087: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
2088: about differences betwen OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
2089: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2090: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2091: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2092: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2093: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2094: <p>
2095:
2096: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2097: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2098: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2099: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2100: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2101:
2102: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2103: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2104: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2105: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2106: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2107: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2108: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2109: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2110: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2111: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2112: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2113: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2114: <p>
2115: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2116:
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2118: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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