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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:
1.198 pvalchev 100: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
101: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
102: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
103:
1.190 horacio 104: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 105: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
106: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
107: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
108: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
109: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
110: <p>
1.190 horacio 111:
1.191 jufi 112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.195 jufi 113: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html">
114: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
115: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
116: </strong></font><br>
117: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
118: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>
119: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
120: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
121: <p>
122:
123: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 124: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
125: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
126: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
127: </strong></font><br>
128: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
129: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
130: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
131: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 132: <p>
133:
1.191 jufi 134:
1.186 jufi 135: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 136:
1.186 jufi 137: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
138: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 139: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
140: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 141: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 142:
1.188 jufi 143: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 ! pvalchev 144: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 145: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 146: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
147: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 148: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 149: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 150: <p>
151:
1.191 jufi 152:
153: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
154: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758">
155: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>
156: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
157: </strong></font><br>
158:
159: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
160: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
161: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
162: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
163: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
164: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
165: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
166: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
167: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
168: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
169: familiar?
170: <p>
171:
1.178 louis 172: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
173:
174: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 175: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
176: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 177: </strong></font><br>
178:
179: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
180: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
181: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
182: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
183: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
184: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
185: <p>
186:
1.179 louis 187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
188: <a
1.182 louis 189: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
190: </strong></font><br>
191:
192: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
193: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
194: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
195: <p>
196:
197: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
198: <a
1.179 louis 199: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
200: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
201: </strong></font><br>
202:
203: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
204: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
205: <p>
206:
1.174 louis 207:
1.175 louis 208: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
209:
210: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
211: <a
1.179 louis 212: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
213: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
214: </strong></font><br>
215:
216: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
217: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
218: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
219: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
223: <a
1.183 ian 224: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 225: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
226: </strong></font><br>
227:
228: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 229: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 230: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
231: <p>
232:
1.176 louis 233:
1.172 mickey 234: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
235:
236: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 237: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 238: </strong></font><br>
239:
240: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
241: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
242: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 243: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 244: <p>
245:
246: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
247: <a
1.174 louis 248: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
249: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
250: </strong></font><br>
251:
252: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
253: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
254: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
255: <p>
256:
257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
258: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
259: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
260: </strong></font><br>
261:
262: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
263: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
264: <p>
265:
266: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
267: <a
268: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
269: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
270: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
271: </strong></font><br>
272:
273: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
274: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
275: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
276: our own Theo de Raadt.
277: <p>
278:
279: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
280: <a
281: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
282: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
283: </strong></font><br>
284:
285: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
286: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
287: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
288: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
289: shut down.]
290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
293: <a
1.172 mickey 294: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo deRaadt,
295: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 296: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 297: </strong></font><br>
298:
299: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
300: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
301: <p>
302:
303: </li>
304:
1.161 louis 305: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
306:
1.175 louis 307:
308: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
309: <a
310: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
311: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
312: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
313: </strong></font><br>
314:
315: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
316: by John Wolley
317: <p>
318:
319: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
320: <a
321: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
322: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
323: </strong></font><br>
324:
325: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
326: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
327: OpenBSD).
328: <p>
329:
1.161 louis 330: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
331: <a
1.171 louis 332: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
333: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
334: </strong></font><br>
335:
336: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
337: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
338: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
339: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
340: and hindsight.
341: <p>
342:
343: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
344: <a
1.168 provos 345: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
346: December 7, 2000
347: </strong></font><br>
348:
349: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
350: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
351: us explain.
352: <p>
353:
354: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
355: <a
1.166 louis 356: href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html">System and
357: Network Security - Kernel Options</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
358: December 6, 2000
359: </strong></font><br>
360:
361: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
362: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
363: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
367: <a
1.162 millert 368: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
369: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
370: </strong></font><br>
371:
372: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 373: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
374: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
375: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
376: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
377: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
378: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 379: <p>
1.162 millert 380:
381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
382: <a
1.161 louis 383: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
384: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
385: </strong></font><br>
386:
387: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
388: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
389: <p>
390:
1.169 louis 391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
392: <a
393: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
394: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
395: </strong></font><br>
396:
397: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
398: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
399: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
400: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
401: <p>
402:
1.158 louis 403: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 404:
405: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 406: <a
1.175 louis 407: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
408: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
409: </strong></font><br>
410:
411: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
412: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
416: <a
1.164 deraadt 417: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 418: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 419: </strong></font><br>
420: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
421: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
422: <p>
423:
424: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
425: <a
426: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
427: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
428: </strong></font><br>
429:
430: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
431: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
432: <p>
433:
434: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
435: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
436: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
437: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 438:
1.161 louis 439: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
440: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
441: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
442: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
443: <p>
1.174 louis 444: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
445: <a
446: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
447: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
448: </strong></font><br>
449:
450: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
451: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
452: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
453: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
454: much of the attitude too).
455: <p>
1.161 louis 456:
457: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
458: <a
1.157 louis 459: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
460: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
461: </strong></font><br>
462: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
463: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
464: <p>
465:
466: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
467:
468: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 469: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html">Auditing
470: Code</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
471: </strong></font><br>
472:
473: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
474: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
475: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
476: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
480: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
481: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
482: </strong></font><br>
483:
484: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
485: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
486: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
487: it because they love coding...
488: <p>
489:
490: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
491: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
492: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
493: </strong></font><br>
494:
495: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
496: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
497: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
498: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
499: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
500: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
501: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
502: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 506: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
507: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
508: </strong></font><br>
509:
510: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
511: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
512: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
513: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
514: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
515: the pizza.
516: <p>
517:
518: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 519: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
520: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
521: </strong></font><br>
522:
523: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
524: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
525: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
526: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
527: problems.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 531: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
532: </strong></font><br>
533:
534: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
535: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
536: - whether they like it or not.
537: <p>
538:
539: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 540: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
541: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
542: </strong></font><br>
543:
544: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
545: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
546: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 547: <p>
1.148 aaron 548:
549: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 550: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
551: </strong></font><br>
552:
553: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
554: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
555: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
556: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
557: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
558: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
559: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
560: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
561: <p>
562:
563: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 564: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
565: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
566: </strong></font><br>
567:
568: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
569: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
570: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
571: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
572: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
573: <p>
574:
1.138 louis 575: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
576:
577: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 578: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 579: System Takes On Linux</a>,
580: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
581: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 582: </strong></font><br>
583:
1.146 louis 584: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
585: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
586: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
587: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
588: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
589: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
590: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 591: <p>
592:
593: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 594: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
595: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
596: </strong></font><br>
597:
598: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
599: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
600: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
601: library after installing the OS.
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 605: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 606: Sys Admin, September 2000
607: </strong></font><br>
608:
609: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
610: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
611: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
612: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
613: (<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>,
614: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
615: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
616: <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 617: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 618: out of the system.
619: <p>
620:
1.144 louis 621: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
622: <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
623: </strong></font><br>
624:
625: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.199 ! pvalchev 626: in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1.144 louis 627: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
628: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
629: the IP filtering and address translation.
630: <p>
631:
1.131 louis 632: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
633:
634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 635: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
636: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
640: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
641: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
642: <p>
643:
644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 645: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
646: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
647: </strong></font><br>
648:
649: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
650: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
651: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
652: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
653: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
654: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
655: note of"</i>.
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 659: <a
660: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
661: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
662: </strong></font><br>
663:
664: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
665: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
666: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
667: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
668: <p>
669:
670: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 671: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 672: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
673: </strong></font><br>
674:
675: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
676: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
677: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
678: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
679: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
680: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
681: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
682: <p>
683:
684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 685: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
686: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
687: 2000
688: </strong></font><br>
689:
690: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
691: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
692: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
693: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
694: against current industry practices.
695: <p>
696:
697: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 698: <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
699: </strong></font><br>
700:
701: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
702: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
703: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
704: <p>
705:
706: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 707: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
708: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
709: </strong></font><br>
710:
711: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
712: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
713: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
714: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
715: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
716: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
717: careful code reviews, he concludes.
718: <p>
719:
720: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 721: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
722: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
723: </strong></font><br>
724:
725: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
726: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
727: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
728: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
729: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 730: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
731: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
732: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 733: <p>
734:
1.118 louis 735: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
736:
737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 738: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
739: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
740: </strong></font><br>
741:
742: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
743: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
744: about time. The article mentions that
745: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
746: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
747: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 748: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 749: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
750: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 ! pvalchev 751: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 755: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 756: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 757: </strong></font><br>
758:
759: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
760: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
761: of OpenSSH.
762: <p>
763:
764: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
765: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html">
766: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II)</a>, Security Portal, July 26, 2000
767: </strong></font><br>
768:
769: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 770: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 771: bridging.
772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
775: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
776: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 777: </strong></font><br>
778:
1.121 deraadt 779: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
780: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 781: <p>
782:
783: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 784: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
785: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
786: </strong></font><br>
787:
788: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
789: <p>
790:
791: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 792: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 793: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
794: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 795: </strong></font><br>
796:
1.120 deraadt 797: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
798: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 799: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
800: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
801: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
802: <p>
803:
804: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 805: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
806: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
807: </strong></font><br>
808:
809: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
810: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
811: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
812: protocols and their quirks.
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 816: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html">In
1.137 louis 817: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 818: </strong></font><br>
819:
820: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
821: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
822: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 823: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 824: <p>
825:
826: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 827: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
828: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
829: </strong></font><br>
830:
831: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
832: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
833: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
834: <p>
835:
836: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 837: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 838: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
839: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 840: </strong></font><br>
841:
842: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
843: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
844: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
845: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
846: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
847: <p>
848:
1.104 louis 849: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
850:
1.113 naddy 851: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 852: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
853: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
854: </strong></font><br>
855:
856: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
857: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
858: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
859: be a bit dry.
860: <p>
861:
862: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 863: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
864: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
865: 2000
1.128 louis 866: </strong></font><br>
867:
868: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
869: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
870: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
871: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
872: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 873: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 874: <p>
875:
876: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.110 louis 877: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html">Securing
878: Your Network With OpenBSD</a>, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 879: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 880:
881: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
882: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
883: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
884: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 885: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
886: <p>
1.110 louis 887:
1.117 louis 888: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
889: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
890: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
891: </strong></font><br>
892:
893: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
894: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
895: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
896: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
897: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
898: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
899: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
900: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
901: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
902: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
903: <p>
904:
1.113 naddy 905: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 906: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 907: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 908:
909: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
910: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 911: <p>
1.108 louis 912:
1.113 naddy 913: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 914: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
915: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 916: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 917:
918: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
919: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
920: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 921: <p>
1.106 louis 922:
1.113 naddy 923: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 924: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
925: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 926: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 927:
928: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
929: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
930: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
931: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 932: <p>
1.107 louis 933:
1.113 naddy 934: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 935: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
936: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 937: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 938:
939: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
940: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 941: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 942: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
943: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 944: <p>
1.105 louis 945:
1.113 naddy 946: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 947: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 948: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 949: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 950:
1.113 naddy 951: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
952: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 953: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 954: <p>
1.104 louis 955:
1.121 deraadt 956: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
957: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
958: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
959: </strong></font><br>
960:
961: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
962: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
963: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
964: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
965: <p>
966:
1.85 louis 967: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
968:
1.113 naddy 969: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 970: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 971: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 972: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 973:
974: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
975: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
976: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
977: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
978: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
979: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
980: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 981: <p>
1.99 louis 982:
1.113 naddy 983: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 984: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 985: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 986: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 987:
988: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
989: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
990: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
991: conditions.
1.113 naddy 992: <p>
1.100 louis 993:
1.113 naddy 994: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 995: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 996: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 997: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 998:
999: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1000: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1001: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1002: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1003: <p>
1.95 louis 1004:
1.113 naddy 1005: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1006: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1007: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1008: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1009:
1010: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1011: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1012: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1013: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1014: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1015: <p>
1.92 louis 1016:
1.113 naddy 1017: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1018: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1019: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1020: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1021:
1022: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1023: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1024: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1025: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1026: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1027: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1028: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1029: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1030: <p>
1.91 louis 1031:
1.113 naddy 1032: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.90 louis 1033: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html">Why
1034: We're Doomed to Failure</a>, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1035: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1036:
1037: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1038: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1039: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1040: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1041: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1042: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1043: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1044: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1045: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1046: <p>
1.90 louis 1047:
1.113 naddy 1048: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1049: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1050: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1051: </strong></font><br>
1052: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1053: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1054: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1055: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1056: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1057: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1061: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1062: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1063: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1064:
1.113 naddy 1065: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1066: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1067: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1068: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1069: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1070: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1071: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1072: <p>
1.87 louis 1073:
1.113 naddy 1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1075: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1076: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1077: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1078:
1079: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1080: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1081: <p>
1.85 louis 1082:
1.113 naddy 1083: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1084: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1085: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1086: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1087:
1088: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1089: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1090: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1091: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1092: <p>
1.89 louis 1093:
1.113 naddy 1094: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1095: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1096: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1097: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1098:
1099: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1100: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1101: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1102: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1103: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1104:
1.78 deraadt 1105: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1106:
1.113 naddy 1107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1108: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1109: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1110: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1111: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1112:
1113: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1114: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1115: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1116: <p>
1.83 louis 1117:
1.113 naddy 1118: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1119: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1120: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1121: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1122:
1123: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1124: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1125: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1126: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1127: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1128: <p>
1.93 louis 1129:
1.113 naddy 1130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1131: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1132: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1133: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1134:
1.83 louis 1135: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1136: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1137: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1138: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1139: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1140: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1141: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1142: <p>
1.82 aaron 1143:
1.113 naddy 1144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1145: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1146: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1147: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1148:
1.83 louis 1149: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1150: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1151: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1152: <p>
1.80 louis 1153:
1.113 naddy 1154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1155: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1156: Bad Press</a>,
1157: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1158: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1159:
1160: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1161: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1162: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1163: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1164: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1165: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1166:
1167: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1168:
1.113 naddy 1169: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1170: <a
1.111 jufi 1171: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html">Linux
1.78 deraadt 1172: is a security risk, I don't think so!</a>,
1173: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1174: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1175:
1176: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1177: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1178: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1179: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1180: <p>
1.74 louis 1181:
1.113 naddy 1182: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1183: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1184: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1185: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1186:
1187: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1188: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1189: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1190: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1191: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1192: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1193: <p>
1.88 louis 1194:
1.113 naddy 1195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1196: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1197: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1198: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1199:
1200: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1201: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1202: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1203: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1204: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1205: <p>
1.81 louis 1206:
1.113 naddy 1207: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1208: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1209: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1210: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1211:
1212: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1213: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1214: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1215: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1216: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1217: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1218: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1219: <p>
1.90 louis 1220:
1.113 naddy 1221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1222: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1223: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1224: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1225:
1226: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1227: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1228: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1229: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1230: <p>
1.71 louis 1231:
1.69 deraadt 1232: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1233:
1.113 naddy 1234: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1235: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html">All
1.70 louis 1236: About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH</a>, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1237: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1238:
1239: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1240: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1241: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1242: <p>
1.70 louis 1243:
1.113 naddy 1244: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1245: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html">Firewalling with IPF</a>, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1246: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1247:
1248: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1249: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1250: <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 1251: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1252: <p>
1.68 louis 1253:
1.113 naddy 1254: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1255: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html">OpenBSD 2.6 - new features</a>,
1.64 louis 1256: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1257: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1258:
1.111 jufi 1259: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1260: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1261: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1262: "secure by default" installation.
1263: <p>
1.64 louis 1264:
1.113 naddy 1265: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1266: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1267: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1268: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1269:
1.113 naddy 1270: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1271: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1272: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1273: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1274: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1275: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1276: <p>
1.66 louis 1277:
1.113 naddy 1278: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1279: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1280: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1281: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1282:
1283: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1284: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1285: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1286: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1287: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1288: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1289: <p>
1.83 louis 1290:
1.113 naddy 1291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1292: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1293: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1294: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1295:
1296: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1297: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1298: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1299: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1300: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1301: <p>
1.64 louis 1302:
1.113 naddy 1303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1304: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1305: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1306: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1307:
1308: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1309: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1310: <p>
1.65 louis 1311:
1.69 deraadt 1312: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1313:
1.113 naddy 1314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1315: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1316: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1317: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1318:
1319: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1320: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1321: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1322: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1323: <p>
1.88 louis 1324:
1.113 naddy 1325: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1326: <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 1327: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1328:
1329: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1330: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1331: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1332: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1333: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1334: <p>
1.60 louis 1335:
1.113 naddy 1336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1337: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1338: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1339: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1340: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1341:
1342: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1343: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1344: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1345: <p>
1.58 louis 1346:
1.113 naddy 1347: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1348: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1349: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1350:
1351: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1352: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1353: <p>
1.53 louis 1354:
1.113 naddy 1355: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1356: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1357: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1358: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1359:
1360: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1361: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1362: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1363: <p>
1.99 louis 1364:
1.113 naddy 1365: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1366: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1367: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1368:
1369: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1370: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1371: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1372: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1373: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1374:
1.113 naddy 1375: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1376: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1377: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1378: </strong></font><br>
1379:
1380: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1381: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1382: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1383: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1384: <p>
1385:
1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1387: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1388: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1389: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1390:
1391: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1392: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1393: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1394:
1.113 naddy 1395: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1396: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1397: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1398:
1399: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1400: in
1.113 naddy 1401: <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 1402: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1403: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1404: <p>
1.53 louis 1405:
1.113 naddy 1406: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1407: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1408: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1409: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1410: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1411:
1.58 louis 1412: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1413: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1414:
1.69 deraadt 1415: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1416:
1.113 naddy 1417: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1418: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1419: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1420: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1421: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1422:
1.58 louis 1423: Kurt Seifried
1424: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1425: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1426: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1427: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1428:
1.113 naddy 1429: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1430: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1431: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1432: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1433:
1434: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1435: <p>
1.96 louis 1436:
1.113 naddy 1437: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1438: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1439: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1440: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1441:
1442: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1443: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1444: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1445: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1446: <p>
1.86 louis 1447:
1.69 deraadt 1448: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1449:
1.113 naddy 1450: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1451: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1452: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1453: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1454:
1455: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1456: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1457: <p>
1.61 louis 1458:
1.113 naddy 1459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1460: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1461: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1462: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1463: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1464:
1465: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1466: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1467: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1468: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1469: right -- or at least strives to".
1470: <p>
1.48 louis 1471:
1.113 naddy 1472: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1473: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1474: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1475: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1476: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1477: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1478: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1479: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1480: <p>
1.61 louis 1481:
1.113 naddy 1482: <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 1483: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1484: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1485:
1486: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1487: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1488: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1489: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1490: <p>
1.46 louis 1491:
1.113 naddy 1492: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1493: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1494: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1495: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1496:
1497: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1498: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1499: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1500:
1.113 naddy 1501: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1502: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1503: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1504: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1505:
1506: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1507: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1508: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1509: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1510: <p>
1.70 louis 1511:
1.69 deraadt 1512: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1513:
1.113 naddy 1514: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
1.44 philen 1515: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1516: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1517:
1518: Kurt Seifried
1519: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1520: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1521: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1522: <p>
1.44 philen 1523:
1.113 naddy 1524: <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 1525: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1526: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1527:
1528: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1529: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1530:
1.113 naddy 1531: <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 1532: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1533: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1534:
1535: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1536: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1537:
1.113 naddy 1538: <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 1539: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1540: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1541:
1542: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1543: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1544: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1545: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1546: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1547:
1.113 naddy 1548: <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 1549: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1550: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1551:
1.36 louis 1552: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1553: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1554:
1.113 naddy 1555: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1556: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1557: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1558: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1559:
1560: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1561: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1562:
1.69 deraadt 1563: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1564:
1.113 naddy 1565: <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 1566: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1567: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1568:
1569: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1570: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1571: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1572:
1.113 naddy 1573: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1574: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1575: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1576: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1577:
1578: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1579: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1580: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1581: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1582: <blockquote>
1583: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1584: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1585: <br>
1586: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1587: </code>
1588: </blockquote>
1589: <p>
1590:
1591: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1592: <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>
1593: <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
1594: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1595:
1596: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1597: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1598: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1599: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1600:
1.113 naddy 1601: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1602: <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 1603: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1604:
1605: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1606: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1607: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1608: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1609: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1610: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1611: <p>
1.19 louis 1612:
1.113 naddy 1613: <li><strong>
1614: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1615: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1616:
1617: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1618: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1619: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1620: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1621: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1622: <p>
1.16 louis 1623:
1.113 naddy 1624: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1625: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1626: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1627: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1628:
1.57 louis 1629: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1630: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1631: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1632: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1633:
1.113 naddy 1634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1635: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1636: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1638:
1.113 naddy 1639: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1640:
1.113 naddy 1641: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1642: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1643: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1644: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1645:
1.23 louis 1646: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1647: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1648: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1649: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1650: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1651: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1652:
1.113 naddy 1653: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1654: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1655: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1656: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1657:
1.199 ! pvalchev 1658: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1659: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1660: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1661: installation.
1.113 naddy 1662: <p>
1.47 louis 1663:
1.113 naddy 1664: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1665: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1666: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1667: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1668:
1669: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1670: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1671:
1.69 deraadt 1672: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1673:
1.113 naddy 1674: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1675: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1676: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1677: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1678:
1679: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1680: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1681: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1682: <p>
1.12 louis 1683:
1.113 naddy 1684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1685: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1686: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1687: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1688:
1689: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1690: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1691: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1692: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1693: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1694: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1695: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1696: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1697:
1.69 deraadt 1698: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1699:
1.113 naddy 1700: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1701: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1702: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1703:
1704: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1705: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1706: available."
1.113 naddy 1707: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1708:
1.69 deraadt 1709: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1712: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1713: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1714:
1715: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1716: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1717: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1718: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1719: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1720: <p>
1.33 louis 1721:
1.113 naddy 1722: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1723: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1724: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1725: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1726:
1.113 naddy 1727: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1728: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1729: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1730: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1731: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1732: <p>
1.57 louis 1733:
1.69 deraadt 1734: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1735:
1.113 naddy 1736: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1737: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1738: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1739: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1740:
1741: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1742: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1743: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1744:
1.113 naddy 1745: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1746: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1747: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1748: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1749: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1750:
1751: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1752: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1753:
1.113 naddy 1754: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1755: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1756:
1.113 naddy 1757: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1758:
1.113 naddy 1759: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1760: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1761: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1762: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1763:
1764: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1765: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1766:
1.69 deraadt 1767: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1768:
1.113 naddy 1769: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1770: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1771: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1772:
1773: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1774: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1775: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1776:
1.113 naddy 1777: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1778: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1779: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1780: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1781:
1782: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1783: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1784: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1785: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1786:
1.69 deraadt 1787: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1788:
1.160 jufi 1789: <a name=anzen1></a>
1.113 naddy 1790: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1791: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 1792: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.113 naddy 1793: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1794:
1795: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
1796: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
1797: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
1798: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
1799: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
1800: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
1.113 naddy 1801: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1802:
1.113 naddy 1803: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1804: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1805: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1806: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1807:
1808: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1809: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1810: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1811: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1812: <p>
1.15 louis 1813:
1.113 naddy 1814: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1815: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1816: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1817: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1818:
1819: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1820: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1821: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1822: columns."
1.113 naddy 1823: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1824:
1.69 deraadt 1825: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1826:
1.113 naddy 1827: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1828: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1829: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1830: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1831:
1832: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1833: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1834:
1.113 naddy 1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1836: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1837: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1838:
1839: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1840: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1841: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1842:
1.69 deraadt 1843: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1844:
1.113 naddy 1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1846: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1847: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1849:
1850: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1851: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1852: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1853: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1854: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1855:
1.69 deraadt 1856: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1857:
1.113 naddy 1858: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1859: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1860: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1861:
1.69 deraadt 1862: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1863: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1864: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1865:
1.69 deraadt 1866: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1867:
1.113 naddy 1868: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1869: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1870: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1871: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1872:
1873: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1874: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1875: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1876:
1.113 naddy 1877: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1878: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1879: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1880: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1881: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1882:
1.69 deraadt 1883: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1884:
1.113 naddy 1885: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1886: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1887: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1888: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1889: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1890: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1891:
1892: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1893: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1894: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1895: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1896: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1897: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1898:
1899: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1900:
1.113 naddy 1901: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1902: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1903: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1904:
1.69 deraadt 1905: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1906: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1907: <p>
1.112 naddy 1908:
1.113 naddy 1909: </dl>
1910: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1911:
1.113 naddy 1912: <hr>
1913: <a name=se></a>
1914: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1915:
1.102 niklas 1916: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1917:
1.113 naddy 1918: <dl>
1919: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 1920: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 1921: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 1922:
1923: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
1924: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1925: <p>
1.102 niklas 1926:
1.113 naddy 1927: </dl>
1.102 niklas 1928:
1.84 niklas 1929: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1930:
1.113 naddy 1931: <dl>
1932: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 1933: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 1934: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 1935:
1936: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 1937: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1938: <p>
1.84 niklas 1939:
1.113 naddy 1940: </dl>
1.84 niklas 1941:
1.69 deraadt 1942: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1943:
1.113 naddy 1944: <dl>
1945: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1946: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 1947: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1948:
1949: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
1950: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
1951: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 1952: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1953:
1.113 naddy 1954: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1955: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 1956: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 1957: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 1958: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1959:
1.20 louis 1960: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
1961: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 1962: explains the licensing issues and points to our
1963: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 1964: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1965:
1.113 naddy 1966: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 1967:
1.113 naddy 1968: <hr>
1969: <a name=jp></a>
1970: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 1971:
1.113 naddy 1972: <dl>
1.20 louis 1973:
1.170 louis 1974: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1975:
1976: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1977: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
1978: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1979: </strong></font><br>
1980:
1981: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1982: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1983: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1984: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1985: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1986: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1987: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1988: <p>
1989:
1.69 deraadt 1990: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1991:
1.113 naddy 1992: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 1993: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 1994: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 1995: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 1996:
1997: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
1998: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
1999: translating and reprinting articles from
2000: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2001: <p>
1.112 naddy 2002:
1.113 naddy 2003: </dl>
1.20 louis 2004:
1.113 naddy 2005: <hr>
2006: <a name=de></a>
2007: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2008: <dl>
1.50 louis 2009:
1.151 louis 2010: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2011:
2012: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2013: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2014: </strong></font><br>
2015:
2016: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2017: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2018: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2019: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2020: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2021:
2022: <p>
2023:
1.72 louis 2024: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2025:
1.113 naddy 2026: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2027: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2028: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2029: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2030:
1.101 jufi 2031: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2032: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2033: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2034: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2035: Giving way to
2036: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2037: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2038: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2039: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2040: <p>
1.72 louis 2041:
1.69 deraadt 2042: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2045: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2046: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2047: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2048:
2049: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2050: <p>
2051: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2052:
1.50 louis 2053:
1.113 naddy 2054: <hr>
2055: <a name=ru></a>
2056: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2057: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2058:
1.69 deraadt 2059: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2060:
1.113 naddy 2061: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2062: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2063: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2064: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2065:
2066: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2067: <p>
1.62 form 2068:
1.69 deraadt 2069: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2070:
1.113 naddy 2071: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2072: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2073: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2074: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2075:
1.59 form 2076: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2077: <p>
1.112 naddy 2078:
1.113 naddy 2079: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2080:
1.113 naddy 2081: <hr>
2082: <a name=pl></a>
2083: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2084: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2085:
1.113 naddy 2086: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2087: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2088: Radio, August 2, 2000
2089: </strong></font><br>
2090:
2091: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 ! pvalchev 2092: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2093: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2094: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2095: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2096: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2097: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2098: <p>
2099:
2100: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2101: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2102: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2103: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2104: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2105:
2106: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2107: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2108: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2109: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2110: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2111: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2112: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2113: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2114: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2115: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2116: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2117: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2118: <p>
2119: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2120:
1.113 naddy 2121: <hr>
2122: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
2123: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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