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30: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
31: <dl>
1.16 louis 32:
1.210 jufi 33: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
34: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
35: <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011002/tc/how_code_red_revealed_the_perils_of_port_80_1.html">
36: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
37: </strong></font><br>
38: In an article about the effects and consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked
39: Webservers running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability instead of new features
40: are discussed. As a positive example they use OpenBSD.
41: </li>
42:
1.207 ian 43: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
44: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
45: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
46: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
47: </strong></font>
48: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
49: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 50: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 51: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
52: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
53: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 54: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.207 ian 55: </li>
56:
1.194 jufi 57: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
58:
59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.201 horacio 60: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2772049,00.html">
61: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
62: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
63: </strong></font><br>
64: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 65: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 66: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
67: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
68: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 69: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 70: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
71: <br>
72: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
73: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
74: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
75: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
76: <p>
77:
78: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 79: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
80: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 81: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 82: </strong></font><br>
83: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
84: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
85: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
86: <br>
87: The new
88: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 89: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
90: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
91: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 92:
1.190 horacio 93: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
94:
95: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 96:
97: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
98: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
99:
100: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
101: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
102:
103: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
104: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
105:
106: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
107: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
108:
1.211 ! horacio 109: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
! 110: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 111: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
112:
113: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
114: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
115:
116: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
117: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
118:
119: <a href="http://www.deadly.org">IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
120: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
121:
122: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
123: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
124:
125: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
126: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
127:
128: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
129: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
130:
131: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 132: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 133:
1.192 jufi 134: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
135: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 136: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 137:
1.193 deraadt 138: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
139: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 140: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 141:
1.196 deraadt 142: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
143: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
144:
1.198 pvalchev 145: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
146: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
147: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
148:
1.190 horacio 149: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 150: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
151: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
152: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
153: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
154: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
155: <p>
1.190 horacio 156:
1.191 jufi 157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.195 jufi 158: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html">
159: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
160: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
161: </strong></font><br>
162: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
163: <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>
164: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
165: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 169: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
170: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
171: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
172: </strong></font><br>
173: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
174: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
175: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
176: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 177: <p>
178:
1.191 jufi 179:
1.186 jufi 180: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 181:
1.186 jufi 182: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
183: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 184: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
185: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 186: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 187:
1.188 jufi 188: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 189: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 190: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 191: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
192: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 193: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 194: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 195: <p>
196:
1.191 jufi 197:
198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 199: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758"> -->
! 200: Abandon hope all ye who enter here,
1.191 jufi 201: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
202: </strong></font><br>
203:
204: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
205: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
206: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
207: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
208: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
209: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
210: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
211: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
212: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
213: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
214: familiar?
215: <p>
216:
1.178 louis 217: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
218:
219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 220: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
221: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 222: </strong></font><br>
223:
224: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
225: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
226: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
227: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
228: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
229: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
230: <p>
231:
1.179 louis 232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
233: <a
1.182 louis 234: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
235: </strong></font><br>
236:
237: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
238: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
239: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
243: <a
1.179 louis 244: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
245: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
246: </strong></font><br>
247:
248: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
249: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
250: <p>
251:
1.174 louis 252:
1.175 louis 253: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
254:
255: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
256: <a
1.179 louis 257: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
258: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
259: </strong></font><br>
260:
261: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
262: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
263: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
264: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
265: <p>
266:
267: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
268: <a
1.183 ian 269: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 270: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
271: </strong></font><br>
272:
273: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 274: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 275: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
276: <p>
277:
1.176 louis 278:
1.172 mickey 279: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
280:
281: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 282: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 283: </strong></font><br>
284:
285: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
286: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
287: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 288: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
292: <a
1.174 louis 293: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
294: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
295: </strong></font><br>
296:
297: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
298: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
299: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
303: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
304: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
305: </strong></font><br>
306:
307: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
308: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
309: <p>
310:
311: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
312: <a
313: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
314: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
315: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
316: </strong></font><br>
317:
318: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
319: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
320: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
321: our own Theo de Raadt.
322: <p>
323:
324: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
325: <a
326: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
327: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
328: </strong></font><br>
329:
330: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
331: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
332: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
333: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
334: shut down.]
335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
338: <a
1.206 ian 339: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 340: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 341: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 342: </strong></font><br>
343:
344: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
345: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
346: <p>
347:
348: </li>
349:
1.161 louis 350: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
351:
1.175 louis 352:
353: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
354: <a
355: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
356: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
357: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
358: </strong></font><br>
359:
360: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
361: by John Wolley
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
365: <a
366: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
367: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
368: </strong></font><br>
369:
370: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
371: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
372: OpenBSD).
373: <p>
374:
1.161 louis 375: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
376: <a
1.171 louis 377: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
378: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
379: </strong></font><br>
380:
381: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
382: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
383: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
384: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
385: and hindsight.
386: <p>
387:
388: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
389: <a
1.168 provos 390: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
391: December 7, 2000
392: </strong></font><br>
393:
394: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
395: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
396: us explain.
397: <p>
398:
399: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 400: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
! 401: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
! 402: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 403: December 6, 2000
404: </strong></font><br>
405:
406: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
407: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
408: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
412: <a
1.162 millert 413: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
414: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
415: </strong></font><br>
416:
417: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 418: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 419: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 420: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
421: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
422: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
423: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 424: <p>
1.162 millert 425:
426: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
427: <a
1.161 louis 428: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
429: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
430: </strong></font><br>
431:
432: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
433: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
434: <p>
435:
1.169 louis 436: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
437: <a
438: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
439: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
440: </strong></font><br>
441:
442: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
443: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
444: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
445: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
446: <p>
447:
1.158 louis 448: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 449:
450: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 451: <a
1.175 louis 452: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
453: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
454: </strong></font><br>
455:
456: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
457: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
461: <a
1.164 deraadt 462: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 463: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 464: </strong></font><br>
465: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
466: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
467: <p>
468:
469: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
470: <a
471: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
472: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
473: </strong></font><br>
474:
475: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
476: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
477: <p>
478:
479: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
480: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
481: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
482: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 483:
1.161 louis 484: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
485: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
486: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
487: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
488: <p>
1.174 louis 489: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
490: <a
491: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
492: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
493: </strong></font><br>
494:
495: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
496: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
497: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
498: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
499: much of the attitude too).
500: <p>
1.161 louis 501:
502: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
503: <a
1.157 louis 504: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
505: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
506: </strong></font><br>
507: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
508: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
509: <p>
510:
511: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
512:
513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 514: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
! 515: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 516: </strong></font><br>
517:
518: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
519: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
520: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
521: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
522: <p>
523:
524: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
525: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
526: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
527: </strong></font><br>
528:
529: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
530: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
531: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
532: it because they love coding...
533: <p>
534:
535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
536: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
537: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
538: </strong></font><br>
539:
540: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
541: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
542: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
543: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
544: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
545: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
546: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
547: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
548: <p>
549:
550: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 551: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
552: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
553: </strong></font><br>
554:
555: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
556: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
557: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
558: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
559: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
560: the pizza.
561: <p>
562:
563: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 564: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
565: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
566: </strong></font><br>
567:
568: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
569: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
570: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
571: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
572: problems.
573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 576: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
577: </strong></font><br>
578:
579: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
580: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
581: - whether they like it or not.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 585: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
586: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
587: </strong></font><br>
588:
589: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
590: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
591: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 592: <p>
1.148 aaron 593:
594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 595: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
596: </strong></font><br>
597:
598: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
599: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
600: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
601: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
602: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
603: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
604: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
605: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 609: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
610: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
611: </strong></font><br>
612:
613: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
614: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
615: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
616: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
617: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
618: <p>
619:
1.138 louis 620: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
621:
622: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 623: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 624: System Takes On Linux</a>,
625: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
626: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 627: </strong></font><br>
628:
1.146 louis 629: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
630: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
631: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
632: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
633: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
634: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
635: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 636: <p>
637:
638: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 639: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
640: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
641: </strong></font><br>
642:
643: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
644: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
645: groups, and even Linux.
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 649: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
650: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
651: </strong></font><br>
652:
653: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
654: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
655: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
656: library after installing the OS.
657: <p>
658:
659: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 660: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 661: Sys Admin, September 2000
662: </strong></font><br>
663:
664: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
665: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
666: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
667: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
668: (<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>,
669: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
670: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
671: <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 672: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 673: out of the system.
674: <p>
675:
1.144 louis 676: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
677: <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
678: </strong></font><br>
679:
680: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 681: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
682: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
683: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
684: the IP filtering and address translation.
685: <p>
686:
1.131 louis 687: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
688:
689: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 690: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
691: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
692: </strong></font><br>
693:
694: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
695: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
696: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 700: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
701: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
702: </strong></font><br>
703:
704: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
705: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
706: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
707: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
708: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
709: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
710: note of"</i>.
711: <p>
712:
713: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 714: <a
715: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
716: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
717: </strong></font><br>
718:
719: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
720: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
721: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
722: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
723: <p>
724:
725: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 726: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 727: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
728: </strong></font><br>
729:
730: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
731: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
732: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
733: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
734: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
735: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
736: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 740: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
741: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
742: 2000
743: </strong></font><br>
744:
745: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
746: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
747: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
748: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
749: against current industry practices.
750: <p>
751:
752: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 753: <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
754: </strong></font><br>
755:
756: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
757: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
758: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
759: <p>
760:
761: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 762: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
763: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
764: </strong></font><br>
765:
766: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
767: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
768: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
769: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
770: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
771: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
772: careful code reviews, he concludes.
773: <p>
774:
775: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 776: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
777: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
778: </strong></font><br>
779:
780: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
781: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
782: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
783: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
784: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 785: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
786: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
787: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 788: <p>
789:
1.118 louis 790: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
791:
792: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 793: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
794: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
795: </strong></font><br>
796:
797: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
798: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
799: about time. The article mentions that
800: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
801: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
802: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 803: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 804: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
805: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 806: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 807: <p>
808:
809: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 810: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 811: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 812: </strong></font><br>
813:
814: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
815: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
816: of OpenSSH.
817: <p>
818:
819: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 820: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
! 821: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 822: </strong></font><br>
823:
824: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 825: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 826: bridging.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
830: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
831: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 832: </strong></font><br>
833:
1.121 deraadt 834: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
835: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 836: <p>
837:
838: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 839: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
840: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
841: </strong></font><br>
842:
843: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
844: <p>
845:
846: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 847: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 848: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
849: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 850: </strong></font><br>
851:
1.120 deraadt 852: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
853: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 854: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
855: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
856: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
857: <p>
858:
859: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 860: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
861: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
862: </strong></font><br>
863:
864: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
865: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
866: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
867: protocols and their quirks.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 871: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html">In
1.137 louis 872: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 873: </strong></font><br>
874:
875: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
876: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
877: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 878: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 879: <p>
880:
881: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 882: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
883: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
884: </strong></font><br>
885:
886: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
887: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
888: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 892: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 893: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
894: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 895: </strong></font><br>
896:
897: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
898: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
899: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
900: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
901: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
902: <p>
903:
1.104 louis 904: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
905:
1.113 naddy 906: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 907: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
908: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
909: </strong></font><br>
910:
911: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
912: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
913: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
914: be a bit dry.
915: <p>
916:
917: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 918: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
919: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
920: 2000
1.128 louis 921: </strong></font><br>
922:
923: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
924: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
925: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
926: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
927: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 928: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 929: <p>
930:
931: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 932: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
! 933: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 934: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 935:
936: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
937: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
938: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
939: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 940: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
941: <p>
1.110 louis 942:
1.117 louis 943: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
944: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
945: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
946: </strong></font><br>
947:
948: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
949: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
950: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
951: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
952: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
953: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
954: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
955: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
956: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
957: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
958: <p>
959:
1.113 naddy 960: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 961: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 962: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 963:
964: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
965: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 966: <p>
1.108 louis 967:
1.113 naddy 968: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 969: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
970: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 971: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 972:
973: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
974: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
975: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 976: <p>
1.106 louis 977:
1.113 naddy 978: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 979: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
980: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 981: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 982:
983: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
984: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
985: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
986: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 987: <p>
1.107 louis 988:
1.113 naddy 989: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 990: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
991: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 992: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 993:
994: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
995: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 996: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 997: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
998: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 999: <p>
1.105 louis 1000:
1.113 naddy 1001: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1002: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1003: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1004: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1005:
1.113 naddy 1006: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1007: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1008: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1009: <p>
1.104 louis 1010:
1.121 deraadt 1011: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1012: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1013: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1014: </strong></font><br>
1015:
1016: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1017: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1018: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1019: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1020: <p>
1021:
1.85 louis 1022: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1023:
1.113 naddy 1024: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1025: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1026: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1027: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1028:
1029: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1030: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1031: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1032: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1033: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1034: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1035: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1036: <p>
1.99 louis 1037:
1.113 naddy 1038: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1039: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1040: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1041: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1042:
1043: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1044: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1045: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1046: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1047: <p>
1.100 louis 1048:
1.113 naddy 1049: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1050: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1051: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1052: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1053:
1054: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1055: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1056: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1057: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1058: <p>
1.95 louis 1059:
1.113 naddy 1060: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1061: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1062: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1063: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1064:
1065: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1066: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1067: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1068: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1069: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1070: <p>
1.92 louis 1071:
1.113 naddy 1072: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1073: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1074: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1075: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1076:
1077: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1078: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1079: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1080: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1081: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1082: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1083: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1084: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1085: <p>
1.91 louis 1086:
1.113 naddy 1087: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 1088: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
! 1089: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1090: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1091:
1092: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1093: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1094: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1095: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1096: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1097: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1098: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1099: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1100: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1101: <p>
1.90 louis 1102:
1.113 naddy 1103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1104: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1105: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1106: </strong></font><br>
1107: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1108: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1109: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1110: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1111: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1112: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1113: <p>
1114:
1115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1116: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1117: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1118: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1119:
1.113 naddy 1120: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1121: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1122: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1123: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1124: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1125: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1126: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1127: <p>
1.87 louis 1128:
1.113 naddy 1129: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1130: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1131: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1132: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1133:
1134: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1135: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1136: <p>
1.85 louis 1137:
1.113 naddy 1138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1139: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1140: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1141: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1142:
1143: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1144: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1145: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1146: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1147: <p>
1.89 louis 1148:
1.113 naddy 1149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1150: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1151: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1152: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1153:
1154: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1155: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1156: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1157: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1158: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1159:
1.78 deraadt 1160: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1161:
1.113 naddy 1162: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1163: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1164: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1165: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1166: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1167:
1168: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1169: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1170: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1171: <p>
1.83 louis 1172:
1.113 naddy 1173: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1174: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1175: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1176: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1177:
1178: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1179: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1180: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1181: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1182: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1183: <p>
1.93 louis 1184:
1.113 naddy 1185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1186: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1187: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1188: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1189:
1.83 louis 1190: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1191: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1192: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1193: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1194: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1195: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1196: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1197: <p>
1.82 aaron 1198:
1.113 naddy 1199: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1200: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1201: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1202: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1203:
1.83 louis 1204: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1205: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1206: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1207: <p>
1.80 louis 1208:
1.113 naddy 1209: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1210: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1211: Bad Press</a>,
1212: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1213: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1214:
1215: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1216: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1217: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1218: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1219: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1220: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1221:
1222: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1223:
1.113 naddy 1224: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 1225: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
! 1226: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1227: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1228: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1229:
1230: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1231: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1232: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1233: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1234: <p>
1.74 louis 1235:
1.113 naddy 1236: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1237: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1238: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1239: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1240:
1241: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1242: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1243: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1244: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1245: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1246: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1247: <p>
1.88 louis 1248:
1.113 naddy 1249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1250: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1251: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1252: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1253:
1254: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1255: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1256: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1257: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1258: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1259: <p>
1.81 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1262: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1263: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1264: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1265:
1266: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1267: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1268: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1269: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1270: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1271: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1272: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1273: <p>
1.90 louis 1274:
1.113 naddy 1275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1276: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1277: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1278: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1279:
1280: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1281: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1282: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1283: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1284: <p>
1.71 louis 1285:
1.69 deraadt 1286: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1287:
1.113 naddy 1288: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 1289: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
! 1290: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1291: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1292:
1293: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1294: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1295: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1296: <p>
1.70 louis 1297:
1.113 naddy 1298: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 1299: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
! 1300: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1301: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1302:
1303: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1304: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1305: <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 1306: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1307: <p>
1.68 louis 1308:
1.113 naddy 1309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 ! horacio 1310: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
! 1311: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1312: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1313: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1314:
1.111 jufi 1315: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1316: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1317: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1318: "secure by default" installation.
1319: <p>
1.64 louis 1320:
1.113 naddy 1321: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1322: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1323: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1324: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1325:
1.113 naddy 1326: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1327: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1328: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1329: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1330: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1331: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1332: <p>
1.66 louis 1333:
1.113 naddy 1334: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1335: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1336: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1337: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1338:
1339: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1340: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1341: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1342: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1343: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1344: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1345: <p>
1.83 louis 1346:
1.113 naddy 1347: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1348: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1349: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1350: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1351:
1352: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1353: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1354: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1355: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1356: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1357: <p>
1.64 louis 1358:
1.113 naddy 1359: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1360: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1361: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1362: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1363:
1364: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1365: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1366: <p>
1.65 louis 1367:
1.69 deraadt 1368: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1369:
1.113 naddy 1370: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1371: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1372: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1373: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1374:
1375: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1376: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1377: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1378: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1379: <p>
1.88 louis 1380:
1.113 naddy 1381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1382: <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 1383: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1384:
1385: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1386: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1387: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1388: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1389: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1390: <p>
1.60 louis 1391:
1.113 naddy 1392: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1393: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1394: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1395: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1396: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1397:
1398: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1399: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1400: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1401: <p>
1.58 louis 1402:
1.113 naddy 1403: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1404: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1405: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1406:
1407: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1408: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1409: <p>
1.53 louis 1410:
1.113 naddy 1411: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1412: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1413: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1414: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1415:
1416: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1417: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1418: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1419: <p>
1.99 louis 1420:
1.113 naddy 1421: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1422: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1423: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1424:
1425: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1426: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1427: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1428: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1429: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1430:
1.113 naddy 1431: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1432: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1433: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1434: </strong></font><br>
1435:
1436: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1437: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1438: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1439: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1440: <p>
1441:
1442: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1443: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1444: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1445: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1446:
1447: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1448: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1449: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1450:
1.113 naddy 1451: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1452: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1453: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1454:
1455: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1456: in
1.113 naddy 1457: <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 1458: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1459: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1460: <p>
1.53 louis 1461:
1.113 naddy 1462: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1463: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1464: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1465: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1466: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1467:
1.58 louis 1468: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1469: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1470:
1.69 deraadt 1471: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1472:
1.113 naddy 1473: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1474: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1475: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1476: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1477: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1478:
1.58 louis 1479: Kurt Seifried
1480: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1481: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1482: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1483: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1484:
1.113 naddy 1485: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1486: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1487: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1488: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1489:
1490: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1491: <p>
1.96 louis 1492:
1.113 naddy 1493: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1494: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1495: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1496: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1497:
1498: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1499: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1500: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1501: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1502: <p>
1.86 louis 1503:
1.69 deraadt 1504: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1505:
1.113 naddy 1506: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1507: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1508: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1509: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1510:
1511: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1512: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1513: <p>
1.61 louis 1514:
1.113 naddy 1515: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1516: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1517: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1518: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1519: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1520:
1521: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1522: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1523: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1524: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1525: right -- or at least strives to".
1526: <p>
1.48 louis 1527:
1.113 naddy 1528: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1529: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1530: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1531: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1532: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1533: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1534: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1535: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1536: <p>
1.61 louis 1537:
1.113 naddy 1538: <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 1539: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1540: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1541:
1542: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1543: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1544: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1545: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1546: <p>
1.46 louis 1547:
1.113 naddy 1548: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1549: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1550: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1551: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1552:
1553: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1554: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1555: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1556:
1.113 naddy 1557: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1558: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1559: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1560: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1561:
1562: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1563: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1564: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1565: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1566: <p>
1.70 louis 1567:
1.69 deraadt 1568: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1569:
1.211 ! horacio 1570: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 1571: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
! 1572: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1573: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1574: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1575:
1576: Kurt Seifried
1577: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1578: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1579: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1580: <p>
1.44 philen 1581:
1.113 naddy 1582: <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 1583: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1584: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1585:
1586: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1587: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1588:
1.113 naddy 1589: <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 1590: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1591: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1592:
1593: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1594: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1595:
1.113 naddy 1596: <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 1597: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1599:
1600: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1601: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1602: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1603: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1604: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1605:
1.113 naddy 1606: <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 1607: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1608: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1609:
1.36 louis 1610: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1611: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1612:
1.113 naddy 1613: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1614: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1615: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1616: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1617:
1618: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1619: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1620:
1.69 deraadt 1621: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1622:
1.113 naddy 1623: <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 1624: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1625: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1626:
1627: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1628: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1629: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1630:
1.113 naddy 1631: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1632: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1633: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1634: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1635:
1636: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1637: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1638: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1639: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1640: <blockquote>
1641: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1642: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1643: <br>
1644: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1645: </code>
1646: </blockquote>
1647: <p>
1648:
1649: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1650: <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>
1651: <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
1652: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1653:
1654: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1655: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1656: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1657: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1658:
1.113 naddy 1659: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1660: <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 1661: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1662:
1663: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1664: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1665: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1666: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1667: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1668: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1669: <p>
1.19 louis 1670:
1.113 naddy 1671: <li><strong>
1672: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1673: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1674:
1675: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1676: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1677: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1678: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1679: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1680: <p>
1.16 louis 1681:
1.113 naddy 1682: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1683: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1684: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1685: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1686:
1.57 louis 1687: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1688: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1689: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1690: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1691:
1.113 naddy 1692: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1693: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1694: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1695: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1696:
1.113 naddy 1697: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1698:
1.113 naddy 1699: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1700: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1701: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1702: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1703:
1.23 louis 1704: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1705: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1706: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1707: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1708: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1709: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1712: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1713: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1714: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1715:
1.199 pvalchev 1716: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1717: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1718: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1719: installation.
1.113 naddy 1720: <p>
1.47 louis 1721:
1.113 naddy 1722: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1723: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1724: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1725: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1726:
1727: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1728: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1729:
1.69 deraadt 1730: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1731:
1.113 naddy 1732: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1733: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1734: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1735: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1736:
1737: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1738: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1739: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1740: <p>
1.12 louis 1741:
1.113 naddy 1742: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1743: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1744: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1745: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1746:
1747: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1748: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1749: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1750: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1751: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1752: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1753: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1754: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1755:
1.69 deraadt 1756: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1757:
1.113 naddy 1758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1759: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1760: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1761:
1762: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1763: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1764: available."
1.113 naddy 1765: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1766:
1.69 deraadt 1767: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1768:
1.113 naddy 1769: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1770: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1771: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1772:
1773: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1774: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1775: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1776: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1777: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1778: <p>
1.33 louis 1779:
1.113 naddy 1780: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1781: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1782: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1783: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1784:
1.113 naddy 1785: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1786: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1787: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1788: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1789: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1790: <p>
1.57 louis 1791:
1.69 deraadt 1792: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1793:
1.113 naddy 1794: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1795: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1796: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1797: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1798:
1799: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1800: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1801: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1802:
1.113 naddy 1803: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1804: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1805: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1806: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1807: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1808:
1809: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1810: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1811:
1.113 naddy 1812: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1813: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1814:
1.113 naddy 1815: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1816:
1.113 naddy 1817: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1818: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1819: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1820: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1821:
1822: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1823: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1824:
1.69 deraadt 1825: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1826:
1.113 naddy 1827: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1828: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1829: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1830:
1831: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1832: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1833: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1834:
1.113 naddy 1835: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1836: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1837: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1838: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1839:
1840: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1841: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1842: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1843: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1844:
1.69 deraadt 1845: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1846:
1.113 naddy 1847: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1848: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1849: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1850: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1851:
1852: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1853: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1854: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1855: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1856: <p>
1.15 louis 1857:
1.113 naddy 1858: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1859: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1860: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1861: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1862:
1863: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1864: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1865: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1866: columns."
1.113 naddy 1867: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1868:
1.69 deraadt 1869: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1870:
1.113 naddy 1871: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1872: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1873: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1874: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1875:
1876: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1877: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1878:
1.113 naddy 1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1880: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1881: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1882:
1883: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1884: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1885: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1886:
1.69 deraadt 1887: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1888:
1.113 naddy 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1890: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1891: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1892: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1893:
1894: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1895: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1896: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1897: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1898: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1899:
1.69 deraadt 1900: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1901:
1.113 naddy 1902: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1903: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1904: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1905:
1.69 deraadt 1906: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1907: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1908: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1909:
1.69 deraadt 1910: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1911:
1.113 naddy 1912: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1913: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1914: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1915: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1916:
1917: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1918: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1919: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1920:
1.113 naddy 1921: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1922: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1923: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1924: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1925: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1926:
1.69 deraadt 1927: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1928:
1.113 naddy 1929: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1930: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1931: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1932: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1933: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1934: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1935:
1936: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1937: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1938: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1939: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1940: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1941: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1942:
1943: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1944:
1.113 naddy 1945: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1946: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1947: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1948:
1.69 deraadt 1949: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1950: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1951: <p>
1.112 naddy 1952:
1.113 naddy 1953: </dl>
1954: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1955:
1.113 naddy 1956: <hr>
1957: <a name=se></a>
1958: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1959:
1.200 niklas 1960: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1961:
1962: <dl>
1963: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1964: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1965: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1966:
1967: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1968: <p>
1969:
1970: </dl>
1971:
1972: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1973:
1974: <dl>
1975: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1976: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
1977: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
1978:
1979: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
1980: <p>
1981:
1982: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1983: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1984: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
1985:
1986: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1987: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1988: <p>
1989:
1990: </dl>
1991:
1992: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1993:
1994: <dl>
1995: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1996: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1997: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1998:
1999: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2000: <p>
2001:
2002: </dl>
2003:
1.102 niklas 2004: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2005:
1.113 naddy 2006: <dl>
2007: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2008: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2009: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2010:
2011: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2012: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2013: <p>
1.102 niklas 2014:
1.113 naddy 2015: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2016:
1.84 niklas 2017: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2018:
1.113 naddy 2019: <dl>
2020: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2021: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2022: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2023:
2024: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2025: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2026: <p>
1.84 niklas 2027:
1.113 naddy 2028: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2029:
1.69 deraadt 2030: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2031:
1.113 naddy 2032: <dl>
2033: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2034: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2035: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2036:
2037: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
2038: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2039: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2040: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2041:
1.113 naddy 2042: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2043: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2044: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2045: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2046: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2047:
1.20 louis 2048: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2049: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2050: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2051: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2052: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2053:
1.113 naddy 2054: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2055:
1.113 naddy 2056: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2057: <a name=fi></a>
2058: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2059:
2060: <dl>
2061:
2062: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2063:
2064: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2065: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2066: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2067:
2068: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2069: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2070: </dl>
2071:
2072: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2073: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2074:
1.113 naddy 2075: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2076:
1.113 naddy 2077: <dl>
1.20 louis 2078:
1.170 louis 2079: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2080:
2081: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2082: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2083: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2084: </strong></font><br>
2085:
2086: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2087: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2088: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2089: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2090: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2091: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2092: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
2093: <p>
2094:
1.69 deraadt 2095: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2096:
1.113 naddy 2097: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2098: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2099: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2100: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2101:
2102: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2103: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2104: translating and reprinting articles from
2105: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2106: <p>
1.112 naddy 2107:
1.113 naddy 2108: </dl>
1.20 louis 2109:
1.113 naddy 2110: <hr>
2111: <a name=de></a>
2112: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2113: <dl>
1.50 louis 2114:
1.151 louis 2115: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2116:
2117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2118: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2119: </strong></font><br>
2120:
2121: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2122: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2123: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2124: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2125: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2126:
2127: <p>
2128:
1.72 louis 2129: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2130:
1.113 naddy 2131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2132: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2133: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2134: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2135:
1.101 jufi 2136: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2137: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2138: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2139: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2140: Giving way to
2141: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2142: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2143: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2144: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2145: <p>
1.72 louis 2146:
1.69 deraadt 2147: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2148:
1.113 naddy 2149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2150: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2151: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2152: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2153:
2154: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2155: <p>
2156: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2157:
1.50 louis 2158:
1.113 naddy 2159: <hr>
2160: <a name=ru></a>
2161: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2162: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2163:
1.69 deraadt 2164: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2165:
1.113 naddy 2166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2167: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2168: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2169: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2170:
2171: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2172: <p>
1.62 form 2173:
1.69 deraadt 2174: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2175:
1.113 naddy 2176: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2177: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2178: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2179: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2180:
1.59 form 2181: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2182: <p>
1.112 naddy 2183:
1.113 naddy 2184: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2185:
1.113 naddy 2186: <hr>
2187: <a name=pl></a>
2188: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2189: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2190:
1.113 naddy 2191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2192: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2193: Radio, August 2, 2000
2194: </strong></font><br>
2195:
2196: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2197: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2198: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2199: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2200: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2201: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2202: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2203: <p>
2204:
2205: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2206: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2207: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2208: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2209: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2210:
2211: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2212: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2213: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2214: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2215: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2216: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2217: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2218: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2219: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2220: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2221: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2222: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2223: <p>
2224: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2225:
1.113 naddy 2226: <hr>
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2228: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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