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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>
1.212 ! horacio 60: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772049,00.html">
1.201 horacio 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:
1.212 ! horacio 106: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
! 107: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 108: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
109:
1.211 horacio 110: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
111: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 112: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
113:
114: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
115: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
116:
117: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
118: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
119:
1.212 ! horacio 120: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
! 121: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 122: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
123:
124: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
125: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
126:
127: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
128: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
129:
130: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
131: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
132:
133: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 134: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 135:
1.192 jufi 136: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
137: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 138: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 139:
1.193 deraadt 140: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
141: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 142: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 143:
1.196 deraadt 144: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
145: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
146:
1.198 pvalchev 147: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
148: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
149: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
150:
1.190 horacio 151: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 152: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
153: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
154: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
155: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
156: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
157: <p>
1.190 horacio 158:
1.191 jufi 159: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 ! horacio 160: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html"> -->
! 161: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD,
1.195 jufi 162: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
163: </strong></font><br>
164: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.212 ! horacio 165: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html"> -->"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"
1.195 jufi 166: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
167: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 171: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
172: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
173: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
174: </strong></font><br>
175: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
176: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
177: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
178: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 179: <p>
180:
1.191 jufi 181:
1.186 jufi 182: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 183:
1.186 jufi 184: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
185: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 186: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
187: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 188: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 189:
1.188 jufi 190: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 191: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 192: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 193: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
194: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 195: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 196: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 197: <p>
198:
1.191 jufi 199:
200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 201: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758"> -->
202: Abandon hope all ye who enter here,
1.191 jufi 203: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
204: </strong></font><br>
205:
206: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
207: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
208: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
209: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
210: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
211: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
212: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
213: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
214: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
215: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
216: familiar?
217: <p>
218:
1.178 louis 219: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
220:
221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 222: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
223: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 224: </strong></font><br>
225:
226: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
227: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
228: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
229: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
230: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
231: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
232: <p>
233:
1.179 louis 234: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
235: <a
1.182 louis 236: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
237: </strong></font><br>
238:
239: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
240: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
241: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
245: <a
1.179 louis 246: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
247: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
248: </strong></font><br>
249:
250: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
251: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
252: <p>
253:
1.174 louis 254:
1.175 louis 255: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
256:
257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
258: <a
1.179 louis 259: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
260: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
261: </strong></font><br>
262:
263: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
264: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
265: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
266: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
267: <p>
268:
269: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
270: <a
1.183 ian 271: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 272: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
273: </strong></font><br>
274:
275: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 276: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 277: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
278: <p>
279:
1.176 louis 280:
1.172 mickey 281: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
282:
283: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 284: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 285: </strong></font><br>
286:
287: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
288: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
289: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 290: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 291: <p>
292:
293: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
294: <a
1.174 louis 295: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
296: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
297: </strong></font><br>
298:
299: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
300: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
301: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
305: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
306: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
307: </strong></font><br>
308:
309: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
310: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
311: <p>
312:
313: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
314: <a
315: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
316: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
317: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
318: </strong></font><br>
319:
320: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
321: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
322: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
323: our own Theo de Raadt.
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
327: <a
328: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
329: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
330: </strong></font><br>
331:
332: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
333: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
334: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
335: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
336: shut down.]
337: <p>
338:
339: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
340: <a
1.206 ian 341: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 342: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 343: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 344: </strong></font><br>
345:
346: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
347: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
348: <p>
349:
350: </li>
351:
1.161 louis 352: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
353:
1.175 louis 354:
355: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
356: <a
357: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
358: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
359: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
360: </strong></font><br>
361:
362: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
363: by John Wolley
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
367: <a
368: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
369: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
370: </strong></font><br>
371:
372: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
373: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
374: OpenBSD).
375: <p>
376:
1.161 louis 377: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
378: <a
1.171 louis 379: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
380: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
381: </strong></font><br>
382:
383: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
384: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
385: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
386: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
387: and hindsight.
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
391: <a
1.168 provos 392: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
393: December 7, 2000
394: </strong></font><br>
395:
396: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
397: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
398: us explain.
399: <p>
400:
401: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 402: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
403: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
404: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 405: December 6, 2000
406: </strong></font><br>
407:
408: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
409: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
410: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
411: <p>
412:
413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
414: <a
1.162 millert 415: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
416: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
417: </strong></font><br>
418:
419: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 420: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 421: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 422: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
423: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
424: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
425: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 426: <p>
1.162 millert 427:
428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
429: <a
1.161 louis 430: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
431: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
432: </strong></font><br>
433:
434: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
435: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
436: <p>
437:
1.169 louis 438: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
439: <a
440: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
441: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
442: </strong></font><br>
443:
444: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
445: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
446: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
447: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
448: <p>
449:
1.158 louis 450: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 451:
452: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 453: <a
1.175 louis 454: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
455: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
456: </strong></font><br>
457:
458: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
459: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
463: <a
1.164 deraadt 464: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 465: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 466: </strong></font><br>
467: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
468: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
472: <a
473: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
474: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
475: </strong></font><br>
476:
477: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
478: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
479: <p>
480:
481: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
482: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.html">Building
483: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
484: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 485:
1.161 louis 486: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
487: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
488: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
489: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
490: <p>
1.174 louis 491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
492: <a
493: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
494: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
495: </strong></font><br>
496:
497: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
498: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
499: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
500: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
501: much of the attitude too).
502: <p>
1.161 louis 503:
504: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
505: <a
1.157 louis 506: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html">BSDCon
507: 2000: A small, tasty conference</a>, Sun World, November 2000
508: </strong></font><br>
509: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
510: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
511: <p>
512:
513: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
514:
515: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 516: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
517: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 518: </strong></font><br>
519:
520: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
521: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
522: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
523: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
527: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
528: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
529: </strong></font><br>
530:
531: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
532: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
533: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
534: it because they love coding...
535: <p>
536:
537: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
538: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
539: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
540: </strong></font><br>
541:
542: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
543: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
544: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
545: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
546: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
547: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
548: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
549: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 553: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
554: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
555: </strong></font><br>
556:
557: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
558: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
559: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
560: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
561: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
562: the pizza.
563: <p>
564:
565: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 566: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
567: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
568: </strong></font><br>
569:
570: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
571: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
572: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
573: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
574: problems.
575: <p>
576:
577: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 578: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
579: </strong></font><br>
580:
581: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
582: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
583: - whether they like it or not.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 587: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
588: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
589: </strong></font><br>
590:
591: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
592: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
593: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 594: <p>
1.148 aaron 595:
596: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.156 louis 597: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, October 5, 2000
598: </strong></font><br>
599:
600: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
601: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
602: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
603: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
604: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
605: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
606: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
607: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
608: <p>
609:
610: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.147 louis 611: <a href="http://www.byte.com/column/BYT20000927S0001">BSD OSs Offer
612: Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
613: </strong></font><br>
614:
615: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
616: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
617: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
618: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
619: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
620: <p>
621:
1.138 louis 622: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
623:
624: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 625: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 626: System Takes On Linux</a>,
627: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
628: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 629: </strong></font><br>
630:
1.146 louis 631: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
632: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
633: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
634: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
635: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
636: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
637: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 641: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
642: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
643: </strong></font><br>
644:
645: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
646: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
647: groups, and even Linux.
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 651: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
652: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
653: </strong></font><br>
654:
655: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
656: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
657: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
658: library after installing the OS.
659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.159 todd 662: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0909/">OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</a>,
1.138 louis 663: Sys Admin, September 2000
664: </strong></font><br>
665:
666: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
667: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
668: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
669: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
670: (<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>,
671: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
672: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
673: <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 674: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 675: out of the system.
676: <p>
677:
1.144 louis 678: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
679: <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
680: </strong></font><br>
681:
682: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 683: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
684: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
685: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
686: the IP filtering and address translation.
687: <p>
688:
1.131 louis 689: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
690:
691: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 692: <a href="http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/352">OpenBSD and the Future of the
693: Internet</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
694: </strong></font><br>
695:
696: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
697: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
698: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
699: <p>
700:
701: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 702: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
703: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
704: </strong></font><br>
705:
706: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
707: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
708: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
709: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
710: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
711: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
712: note of"</i>.
713: <p>
714:
715: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 716: <a
717: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
718: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
719: </strong></font><br>
720:
721: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
722: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
723: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
724: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 728: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 729: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
730: </strong></font><br>
731:
732: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
733: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
734: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
735: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
736: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
737: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
738: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
739: <p>
740:
741: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 742: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
743: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
744: 2000
745: </strong></font><br>
746:
747: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
748: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
749: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
750: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
751: against current industry practices.
752: <p>
753:
754: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 755: <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
756: </strong></font><br>
757:
758: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
759: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
760: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
761: <p>
762:
763: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 764: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
765: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
766: </strong></font><br>
767:
768: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
769: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
770: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
771: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
772: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
773: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
774: careful code reviews, he concludes.
775: <p>
776:
777: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 778: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
779: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
780: </strong></font><br>
781:
782: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
783: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
784: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
785: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
786: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 787: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
788: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
789: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 790: <p>
791:
1.118 louis 792: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
793:
794: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 795: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
796: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
797: </strong></font><br>
798:
799: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
800: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
801: about time. The article mentions that
802: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
803: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
804: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 805: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 806: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
807: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 808: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 809: <p>
810:
811: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 812: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 813: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 814: </strong></font><br>
815:
816: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
817: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
818: of OpenSSH.
819: <p>
820:
821: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 822: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
823: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 824: </strong></font><br>
825:
826: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 827: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 828: bridging.
829: <p>
830:
831: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
832: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
833: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 834: </strong></font><br>
835:
1.121 deraadt 836: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
837: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 838: <p>
839:
840: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 841: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
842: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
843: </strong></font><br>
844:
845: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
846: <p>
847:
848: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 849: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 850: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
851: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 852: </strong></font><br>
853:
1.120 deraadt 854: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
855: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 856: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
857: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
858: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
859: <p>
860:
861: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 862: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
863: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
864: </strong></font><br>
865:
866: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
867: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
868: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
869: protocols and their quirks.
870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 873: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jul/2614/cc261406a.html">In
1.137 louis 874: the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 875: </strong></font><br>
876:
877: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
878: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
879: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 880: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 881: <p>
882:
883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 884: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
885: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
886: </strong></font><br>
887:
888: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
889: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
890: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 894: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 895: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
896: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 897: </strong></font><br>
898:
899: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
900: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
901: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
902: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
903: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
904: <p>
905:
1.104 louis 906: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
907:
1.113 naddy 908: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 909: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
910: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
911: </strong></font><br>
912:
913: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
914: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
915: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
916: be a bit dry.
917: <p>
918:
919: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.137 louis 920: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jun/2613/cc261308b.html">BSD
921: (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
922: 2000
1.128 louis 923: </strong></font><br>
924:
925: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
926: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
927: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
928: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
929: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 930: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 931: <p>
932:
933: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 934: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
935: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 936: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 937:
938: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
939: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
940: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
941: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 942: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
943: <p>
1.110 louis 944:
1.117 louis 945: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
946: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
947: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
948: </strong></font><br>
949:
950: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
951: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
952: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
953: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
954: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
955: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
956: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
957: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
958: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
959: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
960: <p>
961:
1.113 naddy 962: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 963: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 964: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 965:
966: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
967: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 968: <p>
1.108 louis 969:
1.113 naddy 970: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 971: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
972: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 973: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 974:
975: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
976: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
977: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 978: <p>
1.106 louis 979:
1.113 naddy 980: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 981: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
982: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 983: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 984:
985: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
986: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
987: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
988: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 989: <p>
1.107 louis 990:
1.113 naddy 991: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 992: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
993: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 994: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 995:
996: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
997: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 998: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 999: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1000: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1001: <p>
1.105 louis 1002:
1.113 naddy 1003: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1004: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1005: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1006: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1007:
1.113 naddy 1008: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1009: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1010: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1011: <p>
1.104 louis 1012:
1.121 deraadt 1013: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1014: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1015: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1016: </strong></font><br>
1017:
1018: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1019: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1020: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1021: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1022: <p>
1023:
1.85 louis 1024: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1025:
1.113 naddy 1026: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1027: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1028: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1029: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1030:
1031: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1032: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1033: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1034: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1035: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1036: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1037: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1038: <p>
1.99 louis 1039:
1.113 naddy 1040: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1041: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1042: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1043: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1044:
1045: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1046: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1047: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1048: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1049: <p>
1.100 louis 1050:
1.113 naddy 1051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1052: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1053: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1054: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1055:
1056: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1057: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1058: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1059: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1060: <p>
1.95 louis 1061:
1.113 naddy 1062: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1063: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1064: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1065: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1066:
1067: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1068: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1069: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1070: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1071: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1072: <p>
1.92 louis 1073:
1.113 naddy 1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1075: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1076: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1077: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1078:
1079: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1080: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1081: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1082: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1083: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1084: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1085: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1086: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1087: <p>
1.91 louis 1088:
1.113 naddy 1089: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1090: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1091: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1092: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1093:
1094: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1095: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1096: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1097: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1098: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1099: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1100: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1101: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1102: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1103: <p>
1.90 louis 1104:
1.113 naddy 1105: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1106: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1107: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1108: </strong></font><br>
1109: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1110: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1111: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1112: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1113: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1114: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1115: <p>
1116:
1117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1118: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1119: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1120: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1121:
1.113 naddy 1122: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1123: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1124: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1125: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1126: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1127: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1128: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1129: <p>
1.87 louis 1130:
1.113 naddy 1131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1132: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1133: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1134: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1135:
1136: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1137: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1138: <p>
1.85 louis 1139:
1.113 naddy 1140: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1141: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1142: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1143: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1144:
1145: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1146: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1147: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1148: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1149: <p>
1.89 louis 1150:
1.113 naddy 1151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1152: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1153: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1154: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1155:
1156: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1157: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1158: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1159: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1160: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1161:
1.78 deraadt 1162: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1163:
1.113 naddy 1164: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1165: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1166: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1167: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1168: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1169:
1170: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1171: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1172: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1173: <p>
1.83 louis 1174:
1.113 naddy 1175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1176: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1177: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1178: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1179:
1180: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1181: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1182: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1183: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1184: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1185: <p>
1.93 louis 1186:
1.113 naddy 1187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1188: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1189: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1190: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1191:
1.83 louis 1192: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1193: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1194: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1195: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1196: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1197: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1198: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1199: <p>
1.82 aaron 1200:
1.113 naddy 1201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1202: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1203: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1204: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1205:
1.83 louis 1206: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1207: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1208: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1209: <p>
1.80 louis 1210:
1.113 naddy 1211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1212: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1213: Bad Press</a>,
1214: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1215: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1216:
1217: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1218: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1219: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1220: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1221: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1222: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1223:
1224: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1225:
1.113 naddy 1226: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1227: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1228: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1229: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1230: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1231:
1232: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1233: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1234: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1235: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1236: <p>
1.74 louis 1237:
1.113 naddy 1238: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1239: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1240: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1241: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1242:
1243: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1244: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1245: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1246: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1247: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1248: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1249: <p>
1.88 louis 1250:
1.113 naddy 1251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1252: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1253: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1254: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1255:
1256: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1257: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1258: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1259: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1260: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1261: <p>
1.81 louis 1262:
1.113 naddy 1263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1264: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1265: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1267:
1268: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1269: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1270: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1271: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1272: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1273: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1274: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1275: <p>
1.90 louis 1276:
1.113 naddy 1277: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1278: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1279: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1280: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1281:
1282: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1283: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1284: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1285: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1286: <p>
1.71 louis 1287:
1.69 deraadt 1288: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1289:
1.113 naddy 1290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1291: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1292: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1293: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1294:
1295: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1296: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1297: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1298: <p>
1.70 louis 1299:
1.113 naddy 1300: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1301: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1302: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1303: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1304:
1305: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1306: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1307: <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 1308: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1309: <p>
1.68 louis 1310:
1.113 naddy 1311: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1312: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1313: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1314: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1315: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1316:
1.111 jufi 1317: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1318: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1319: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1320: "secure by default" installation.
1321: <p>
1.64 louis 1322:
1.113 naddy 1323: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1324: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1325: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1326: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1327:
1.113 naddy 1328: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1329: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1330: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1331: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1332: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1333: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1334: <p>
1.66 louis 1335:
1.113 naddy 1336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1337: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1338: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1340:
1341: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1342: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1343: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1344: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1345: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1346: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1347: <p>
1.83 louis 1348:
1.113 naddy 1349: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1350: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1351: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1352: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1353:
1354: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1355: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1356: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1357: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1358: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1359: <p>
1.64 louis 1360:
1.113 naddy 1361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1362: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1363: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1364: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1365:
1366: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1367: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1368: <p>
1.65 louis 1369:
1.69 deraadt 1370: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1371:
1.113 naddy 1372: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1373: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1374: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1375: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1376:
1377: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1378: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1379: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1380: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1381: <p>
1.88 louis 1382:
1.113 naddy 1383: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1384: <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 1385: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1386:
1387: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1388: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1389: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1390: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1391: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1392: <p>
1.60 louis 1393:
1.113 naddy 1394: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1395: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1396: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1397: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1398: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1399:
1400: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1401: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1402: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1403: <p>
1.58 louis 1404:
1.113 naddy 1405: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1406: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1407: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1408:
1409: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1410: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1411: <p>
1.53 louis 1412:
1.113 naddy 1413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1414: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1415: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1416: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1417:
1418: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1419: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1420: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1421: <p>
1.99 louis 1422:
1.113 naddy 1423: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1424: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1425: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1426:
1427: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1428: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1429: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1430: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1431: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1432:
1.113 naddy 1433: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.128 louis 1434: <a href="http://www.plesman.com/Archives/cc/2000/Jan/2601/cc260128c.html">There's
1435: more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1436: </strong></font><br>
1437:
1438: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1439: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1440: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1441: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1442: <p>
1443:
1444: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1445: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1446: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1447: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1448:
1449: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1450: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1451: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1452:
1.113 naddy 1453: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1454: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1455: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1456:
1457: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1458: in
1.113 naddy 1459: <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 1460: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1461: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1462: <p>
1.53 louis 1463:
1.113 naddy 1464: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1465: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1466: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1467: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1468: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1469:
1.58 louis 1470: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1471: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1472:
1.69 deraadt 1473: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1474:
1.113 naddy 1475: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1476: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1477: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1478: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1479: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1480:
1.58 louis 1481: Kurt Seifried
1482: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1483: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1484: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1485: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1486:
1.113 naddy 1487: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1488: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1489: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1490: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1491:
1492: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1493: <p>
1.96 louis 1494:
1.113 naddy 1495: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1496: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1497: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1498: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1499:
1500: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1501: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1502: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1503: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1504: <p>
1.86 louis 1505:
1.69 deraadt 1506: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1507:
1.113 naddy 1508: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1509: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1510: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1511: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1512:
1513: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1514: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1515: <p>
1.61 louis 1516:
1.113 naddy 1517: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1518: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1519: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1520: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1521: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1522:
1523: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1524: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1525: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1526: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1527: right -- or at least strives to".
1528: <p>
1.48 louis 1529:
1.113 naddy 1530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1531: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1532: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1533: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1534: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1535: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1536: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1537: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1538: <p>
1.61 louis 1539:
1.113 naddy 1540: <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 1541: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1542: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1543:
1544: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1545: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1546: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1547: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1548: <p>
1.46 louis 1549:
1.113 naddy 1550: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1551: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1552: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1553: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1554:
1555: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1556: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1557: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1558:
1.113 naddy 1559: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1560: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1561: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1562: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1563:
1564: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1565: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1566: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1567: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1568: <p>
1.70 louis 1569:
1.69 deraadt 1570: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1571:
1.211 horacio 1572: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1573: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1574: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1575: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1576: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1577:
1578: Kurt Seifried
1579: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1580: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1581: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1582: <p>
1.44 philen 1583:
1.113 naddy 1584: <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 1585: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1587:
1588: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1589: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1590:
1.113 naddy 1591: <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 1592: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1593: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1594:
1595: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1596: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1597:
1.113 naddy 1598: <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 1599: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1600: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1601:
1602: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1603: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1604: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1605: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1606: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1607:
1.113 naddy 1608: <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 1609: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1610: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1611:
1.36 louis 1612: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1613: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1614:
1.113 naddy 1615: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1616: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1617: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1618: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1619:
1620: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1621: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1622:
1.69 deraadt 1623: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1624:
1.113 naddy 1625: <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 1626: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1627: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1628:
1629: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1630: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1631: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1632:
1.113 naddy 1633: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1634: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1635: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1636: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1637:
1638: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1639: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1640: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1641: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1642: <blockquote>
1643: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1644: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1645: <br>
1646: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1647: </code>
1648: </blockquote>
1649: <p>
1650:
1651: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1652: <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>
1653: <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
1654: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1655:
1656: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1657: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1658: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1659: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1660:
1.113 naddy 1661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1662: <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 1663: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1664:
1665: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1666: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1667: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1668: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1669: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1670: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1671: <p>
1.19 louis 1672:
1.113 naddy 1673: <li><strong>
1674: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1675: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1676:
1677: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1678: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1679: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1680: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1681: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1682: <p>
1.16 louis 1683:
1.113 naddy 1684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1685: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1686: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1687: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1688:
1.57 louis 1689: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1690: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1691: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1692: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1693:
1.113 naddy 1694: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1695: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1696: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1697: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1698:
1.113 naddy 1699: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1700:
1.113 naddy 1701: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1702: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1703: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1704: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1705:
1.23 louis 1706: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1707: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1708: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1709: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1710: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1711: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1712:
1.113 naddy 1713: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1714: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1715: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1716: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1717:
1.199 pvalchev 1718: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1719: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1720: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1721: installation.
1.113 naddy 1722: <p>
1.47 louis 1723:
1.113 naddy 1724: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1725: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1726: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1727: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1728:
1729: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1730: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1731:
1.69 deraadt 1732: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1733:
1.113 naddy 1734: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1735: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1736: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1737: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1738:
1739: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1740: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1741: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1742: <p>
1.12 louis 1743:
1.113 naddy 1744: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1745: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1746: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1747: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1748:
1749: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1750: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1751: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1752: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1753: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1754: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1755: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1756: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1757:
1.69 deraadt 1758: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1759:
1.113 naddy 1760: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1761: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1762: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1763:
1764: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1765: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1766: available."
1.113 naddy 1767: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1768:
1.69 deraadt 1769: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1770:
1.113 naddy 1771: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1772: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1773: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1774:
1775: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1776: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1777: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1778: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1779: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1780: <p>
1.33 louis 1781:
1.113 naddy 1782: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1783: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1784: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1785: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1786:
1.113 naddy 1787: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1788: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1789: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1790: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1791: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1792: <p>
1.57 louis 1793:
1.69 deraadt 1794: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1795:
1.113 naddy 1796: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1797: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1798: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1799: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1800:
1801: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1802: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1803: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1804:
1.113 naddy 1805: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1806: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1807: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1808: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1809: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1810:
1811: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1812: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1813:
1.113 naddy 1814: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1815: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1816:
1.113 naddy 1817: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1818:
1.113 naddy 1819: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1820: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1821: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1822: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1823:
1824: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1825: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1826:
1.69 deraadt 1827: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1828:
1.113 naddy 1829: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1830: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1831: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1832:
1833: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1834: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1835: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1836:
1.113 naddy 1837: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1838: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1839: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1840: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1841:
1842: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1843: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1844: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1845: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1846:
1.69 deraadt 1847: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1848:
1.113 naddy 1849: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1850: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1851: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1852: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1853:
1854: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1855: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1856: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1857: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1858: <p>
1.15 louis 1859:
1.113 naddy 1860: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1861: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1862: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1863: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1864:
1865: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1866: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1867: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1868: columns."
1.113 naddy 1869: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1870:
1.69 deraadt 1871: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1872:
1.113 naddy 1873: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1874: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1875: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1877:
1878: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1879: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1880:
1.113 naddy 1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1882: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1883: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1884:
1885: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1886: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1887: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1888:
1.69 deraadt 1889: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1890:
1.113 naddy 1891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1892: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1893: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1894: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1895:
1896: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1897: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1898: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1899: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1900: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1901:
1.69 deraadt 1902: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1903:
1.113 naddy 1904: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1905: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1906: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1907:
1.69 deraadt 1908: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1909: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1910: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1911:
1.69 deraadt 1912: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1913:
1.113 naddy 1914: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1915: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1916: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1917: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1918:
1919: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1920: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1921: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1922:
1.113 naddy 1923: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1924: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1925: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1926: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1927: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1928:
1.69 deraadt 1929: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1930:
1.113 naddy 1931: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1932: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1933: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1934: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1935: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1936: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1937:
1938: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1939: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1940: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1941: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1942: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1943: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1944:
1945: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1946:
1.113 naddy 1947: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1948: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1949: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1950:
1.69 deraadt 1951: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1952: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1953: <p>
1.112 naddy 1954:
1.113 naddy 1955: </dl>
1956: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1957:
1.113 naddy 1958: <hr>
1959: <a name=se></a>
1960: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1961:
1.200 niklas 1962: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1963:
1964: <dl>
1965: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1966: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1967: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1968:
1969: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1970: <p>
1971:
1972: </dl>
1973:
1974: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1975:
1976: <dl>
1977: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1978: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
1979: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
1980:
1981: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
1982: <p>
1983:
1984: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1985: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1986: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
1987:
1988: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1989: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1990: <p>
1991:
1992: </dl>
1993:
1994: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1995:
1996: <dl>
1997: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1998: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1999: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2000:
2001: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2002: <p>
2003:
2004: </dl>
2005:
1.102 niklas 2006: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2007:
1.113 naddy 2008: <dl>
2009: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2010: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2011: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2012:
2013: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2014: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2015: <p>
1.102 niklas 2016:
1.113 naddy 2017: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2018:
1.84 niklas 2019: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2020:
1.113 naddy 2021: <dl>
2022: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2023: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2024: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2025:
2026: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2027: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2028: <p>
1.84 niklas 2029:
1.113 naddy 2030: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2031:
1.69 deraadt 2032: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2033:
1.113 naddy 2034: <dl>
2035: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2036: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2037: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2038:
2039: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
2040: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2041: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2042: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2045: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2046: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2047: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2048: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2049:
1.20 louis 2050: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2051: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2052: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2053: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2055:
1.113 naddy 2056: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2057:
1.113 naddy 2058: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2059: <a name=fi></a>
2060: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2061:
2062: <dl>
2063:
2064: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2065:
2066: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2067: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2068: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2069:
2070: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2071: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2072: </dl>
2073:
2074: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2075: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2076:
1.113 naddy 2077: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2078:
1.113 naddy 2079: <dl>
1.20 louis 2080:
1.170 louis 2081: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2082:
2083: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2084: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2085: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2086: </strong></font><br>
2087:
2088: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2089: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2090: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2091: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2092: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2093: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2094: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
2095: <p>
2096:
1.69 deraadt 2097: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2098:
1.113 naddy 2099: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2100: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2101: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2102: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2103:
2104: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2105: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2106: translating and reprinting articles from
2107: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2108: <p>
1.112 naddy 2109:
1.113 naddy 2110: </dl>
1.20 louis 2111:
1.113 naddy 2112: <hr>
2113: <a name=de></a>
2114: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2115: <dl>
1.50 louis 2116:
1.151 louis 2117: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2118:
2119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2120: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2121: </strong></font><br>
2122:
2123: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2124: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2125: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2126: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2127: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2128:
2129: <p>
2130:
1.72 louis 2131: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2132:
1.113 naddy 2133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2134: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2135: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2136: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2137:
1.101 jufi 2138: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2139: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2140: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2141: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2142: Giving way to
2143: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2144: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2145: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2146: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2147: <p>
1.72 louis 2148:
1.69 deraadt 2149: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2150:
1.113 naddy 2151: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2152: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2153: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2154: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2155:
2156: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2157: <p>
2158: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2159:
1.50 louis 2160:
1.113 naddy 2161: <hr>
2162: <a name=ru></a>
2163: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2164: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2165:
1.69 deraadt 2166: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2167:
1.113 naddy 2168: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2169: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2170: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2171: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2172:
2173: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2174: <p>
1.62 form 2175:
1.69 deraadt 2176: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2177:
1.113 naddy 2178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2179: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2180: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2181: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2182:
1.59 form 2183: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2184: <p>
1.112 naddy 2185:
1.113 naddy 2186: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2187:
1.113 naddy 2188: <hr>
2189: <a name=pl></a>
2190: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2191: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2192:
1.113 naddy 2193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2194: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2195: Radio, August 2, 2000
2196: </strong></font><br>
2197:
2198: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2199: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2200: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2201: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2202: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2203: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2204: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2205: <p>
2206:
2207: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2208: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2209: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2210: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2211: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2212:
2213: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2214: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2215: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2216: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2217: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2218: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2219: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2220: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2221: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2222: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2223: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2224: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2225: <p>
2226: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2227:
1.113 naddy 2228: <hr>
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2230: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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