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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>
1.213 horacio 60: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
61: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
62: </strong></font><br>
63: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
64: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
65: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
66: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 70: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772049,00.html">
1.201 horacio 71: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
72: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
73: </strong></font><br>
74: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 75: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 76: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
77: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
78: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 79: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 80: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
81: <br>
82: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
83: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
84: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
85: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 89: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
90: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 91: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 92: </strong></font><br>
93: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
94: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
95: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
96: <br>
97: The new
98: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 99: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
100: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
101: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 102:
1.190 horacio 103: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
104:
105: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 106:
107: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
108: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
109:
110: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
111: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
112:
113: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
114: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
115:
1.212 horacio 116: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
117: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 118: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
119:
1.211 horacio 120: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
121: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 122: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
123:
124: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
125: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
126:
127: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
128: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
129:
1.212 horacio 130: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
131: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 132: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
133:
134: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
135: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
136:
137: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
138: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
139:
140: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
141: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
142:
143: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 144: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 145:
1.192 jufi 146: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
147: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 148: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 149:
1.193 deraadt 150: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
151: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 152: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 153:
1.196 deraadt 154: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
155: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
156:
1.198 pvalchev 157: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
158: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
159: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
160:
1.213 horacio 161: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
162: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter</a> <em>(Slashdot echoes OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> development.)</em>,
163: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
164:
1.190 horacio 165: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 166: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
167: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
168: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
169: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
170: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
171: <p>
1.190 horacio 172:
1.191 jufi 173: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 174: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html"> -->
175: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD,
1.195 jufi 176: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
177: </strong></font><br>
178: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.212 horacio 179: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html"> -->"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"
1.195 jufi 180: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
181: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
182: <p>
183:
184: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 185: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
186: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
187: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
188: </strong></font><br>
189: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
190: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
191: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
192: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 193: <p>
194:
1.191 jufi 195:
1.186 jufi 196: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 197:
1.186 jufi 198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
199: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 200: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
201: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 202: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 203:
1.188 jufi 204: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 205: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 206: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 207: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
208: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 209: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 210: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 211: <p>
212:
1.191 jufi 213:
214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 215: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758"> -->
216: Abandon hope all ye who enter here,
1.191 jufi 217: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
218: </strong></font><br>
219:
220: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
221: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
222: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
223: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
224: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
225: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
226: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
227: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
228: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
229: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
230: familiar?
231: <p>
232:
1.178 louis 233: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
234:
235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 236: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
237: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 238: </strong></font><br>
239:
240: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
241: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
242: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
243: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
244: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
245: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
246: <p>
247:
1.179 louis 248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
249: <a
1.182 louis 250: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
251: </strong></font><br>
252:
253: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
254: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
255: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
256: <p>
257:
258: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
259: <a
1.179 louis 260: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
261: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
262: </strong></font><br>
263:
264: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
265: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
266: <p>
267:
1.174 louis 268:
1.175 louis 269: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
270:
271: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
272: <a
1.179 louis 273: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
274: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
275: </strong></font><br>
276:
277: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
278: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
279: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
280: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
281: <p>
282:
283: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
284: <a
1.183 ian 285: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 286: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
287: </strong></font><br>
288:
289: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 290: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 291: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
292: <p>
293:
1.176 louis 294:
1.172 mickey 295: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
296:
297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 298: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 299: </strong></font><br>
300:
301: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
302: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
303: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 304: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 305: <p>
306:
307: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
308: <a
1.174 louis 309: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
310: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
311: </strong></font><br>
312:
313: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
314: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
315: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
316: <p>
317:
318: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
319: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
320: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
321: </strong></font><br>
322:
323: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
324: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
325: <p>
326:
327: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
328: <a
329: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
330: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
331: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
332: </strong></font><br>
333:
334: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
335: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
336: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
337: our own Theo de Raadt.
338: <p>
339:
340: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
341: <a
342: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
343: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
344: </strong></font><br>
345:
346: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
347: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
348: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
349: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
350: shut down.]
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
354: <a
1.206 ian 355: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 356: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 357: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 358: </strong></font><br>
359:
360: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
361: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
362: <p>
363:
364: </li>
365:
1.161 louis 366: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
367:
1.175 louis 368:
369: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
370: <a
371: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
372: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
373: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
374: </strong></font><br>
375:
376: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
377: by John Wolley
378: <p>
379:
380: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
381: <a
382: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
383: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
384: </strong></font><br>
385:
386: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
387: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
388: OpenBSD).
389: <p>
390:
1.161 louis 391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
392: <a
1.171 louis 393: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
394: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
395: </strong></font><br>
396:
397: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
398: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
399: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
400: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
401: and hindsight.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 ! horacio 405: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
! 406: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
! 407: </strong></font><br>
! 408:
! 409: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
! 410: <p>
! 411:
! 412: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 413: <a
1.168 provos 414: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
415: December 7, 2000
416: </strong></font><br>
417:
418: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
419: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
420: us explain.
421: <p>
422:
423: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 424: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
425: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
426: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 427: December 6, 2000
428: </strong></font><br>
429:
430: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
431: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
432: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
433: <p>
434:
435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
436: <a
1.162 millert 437: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
438: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
439: </strong></font><br>
440:
441: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 442: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 443: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 444: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
445: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
446: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
447: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 448: <p>
1.162 millert 449:
450: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
451: <a
1.161 louis 452: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
453: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
454: </strong></font><br>
455:
456: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
457: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
458: <p>
459:
1.169 louis 460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
461: <a
462: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
463: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
464: </strong></font><br>
465:
466: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
467: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
468: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
469: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
470: <p>
471:
1.158 louis 472: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 473:
474: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 475: <a
1.175 louis 476: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
477: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
478: </strong></font><br>
479:
480: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
481: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
485: <a
1.164 deraadt 486: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 487: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 488: </strong></font><br>
489: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
490: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
494: <a
495: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
496: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
497: </strong></font><br>
498:
499: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
500: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
501: <p>
502:
503: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 504: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 505: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
506: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 507:
1.213 horacio 508: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 509: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
510: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
511: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
512: <p>
1.174 louis 513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
514: <a
515: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
516: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
517: </strong></font><br>
518:
519: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
520: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
521: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
522: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
523: much of the attitude too).
524: <p>
1.161 louis 525:
526: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 527: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
528: BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 529: </strong></font><br>
530: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
531: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
532: <p>
533:
534: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
535:
536: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 537: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
538: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 539: </strong></font><br>
540:
541: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
542: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
543: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
544: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
545: <p>
546:
547: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
548: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
549: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
550: </strong></font><br>
551:
552: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
553: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
554: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
555: it because they love coding...
556: <p>
557:
558: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
559: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
560: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
561: </strong></font><br>
562:
563: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
564: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
565: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
566: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
567: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
568: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
569: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
570: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
571: <p>
572:
573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 574: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
575: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
576: </strong></font><br>
577:
578: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
579: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
580: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
581: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
582: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
583: the pizza.
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 587: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
588: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
589: </strong></font><br>
590:
591: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
592: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
593: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
594: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
595: problems.
596: <p>
597:
598: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 599: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
600: </strong></font><br>
601:
602: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
603: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
604: - whether they like it or not.
605: <p>
606:
607: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 608: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
609: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
610: </strong></font><br>
611:
612: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
613: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
614: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 615: <p>
1.148 aaron 616:
617: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 618: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, Network Magazine, October 5, 2000
1.156 louis 619: </strong></font><br>
620:
621: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
622: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
623: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
624: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
625: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
626: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
627: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
628: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
629: <p>
630:
631: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 632: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
633: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 634: </strong></font><br>
635:
636: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
637: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
638: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
639: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
640: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
641: <p>
642:
1.138 louis 643: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
644:
645: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 646: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 647: System Takes On Linux</a>,
648: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
649: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 650: </strong></font><br>
651:
1.146 louis 652: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
653: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
654: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
655: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
656: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
657: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
658: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 662: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
663: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
664: </strong></font><br>
665:
666: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
667: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
668: groups, and even Linux.
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 672: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
673: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
674: </strong></font><br>
675:
676: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
677: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
678: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
679: library after installing the OS.
680: <p>
681:
682: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 683: OpenBSD as a VPN Solution <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 684: Sys Admin, September 2000
685: </strong></font><br>
686:
687: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
688: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
689: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
690: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
691: (<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>,
692: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
693: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
694: <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 695: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 696: out of the system.
697: <p>
698:
1.144 louis 699: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
700: <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
701: </strong></font><br>
702:
703: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 704: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
705: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
706: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
707: the IP filtering and address translation.
708: <p>
709:
1.131 louis 710: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
711:
712: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 ! horacio 713: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
! 714: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
! 715: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 716: </strong></font><br>
717:
718: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
719: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
720: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
721: <p>
722:
723: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 724: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
725: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
726: </strong></font><br>
727:
728: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
729: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
730: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
731: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
732: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
733: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
734: note of"</i>.
735: <p>
736:
737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 738: <a
739: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
740: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
741: </strong></font><br>
742:
743: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
744: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
745: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
746: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
747: <p>
748:
749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 750: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 751: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
752: </strong></font><br>
753:
754: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
755: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
756: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
757: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
758: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
759: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
760: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
761: <p>
762:
763: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 764: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
765: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
766: 2000
767: </strong></font><br>
768:
769: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
770: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
771: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
772: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
773: against current industry practices.
774: <p>
775:
776: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 777: <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
778: </strong></font><br>
779:
780: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
781: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
782: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
783: <p>
784:
785: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 786: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
787: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
788: </strong></font><br>
789:
790: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
791: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
792: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
793: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
794: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
795: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
796: careful code reviews, he concludes.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 800: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
801: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
802: </strong></font><br>
803:
804: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
805: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
806: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
807: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
808: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 809: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
810: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
811: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 812: <p>
813:
1.118 louis 814: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
815:
816: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 817: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
818: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
819: </strong></font><br>
820:
821: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
822: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
823: about time. The article mentions that
824: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
825: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
826: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 827: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 828: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
829: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 830: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 831: <p>
832:
833: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 834: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 835: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 836: </strong></font><br>
837:
838: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
839: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
840: of OpenSSH.
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 844: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
845: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 846: </strong></font><br>
847:
848: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 849: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 850: bridging.
851: <p>
852:
853: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
854: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
855: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 856: </strong></font><br>
857:
1.121 deraadt 858: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
859: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 860: <p>
861:
862: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 863: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
864: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
865: </strong></font><br>
866:
867: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
868: <p>
869:
870: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 871: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 872: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
873: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 874: </strong></font><br>
875:
1.120 deraadt 876: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
877: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 878: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
879: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
880: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
881: <p>
882:
883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 884: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
885: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
886: </strong></font><br>
887:
888: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
889: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
890: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
891: protocols and their quirks.
892: <p>
893:
894: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 ! horacio 895: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
! 896: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 897: </strong></font><br>
898:
899: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
900: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
901: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 902: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 903: <p>
904:
905: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 906: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
907: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
908: </strong></font><br>
909:
910: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
911: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
912: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 916: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 917: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
918: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 919: </strong></font><br>
920:
921: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
922: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
923: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
924: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
925: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
926: <p>
927:
1.104 louis 928: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
929:
1.113 naddy 930: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 931: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
932: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
933: </strong></font><br>
934:
935: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
936: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
937: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
938: be a bit dry.
939: <p>
940:
941: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 942: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
943: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
944: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
945: </strong></font><br>
946: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
947: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
948: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
949: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
950: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
951: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
952: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 ! horacio 956: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
! 957: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 958: 2000
1.128 louis 959: </strong></font><br>
960:
961: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
962: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
963: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
964: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
965: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 966: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 967: <p>
968:
969: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 970: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
971: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 972: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 973:
974: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
975: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
976: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
977: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 978: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
979: <p>
1.110 louis 980:
1.117 louis 981: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
982: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
983: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
984: </strong></font><br>
985:
986: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
987: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
988: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
989: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
990: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
991: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
992: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
993: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
994: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
995: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
996: <p>
997:
1.113 naddy 998: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 999: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1000: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1001:
1002: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1003: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1004: <p>
1.108 louis 1005:
1.113 naddy 1006: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1007: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1008: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1009: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1010:
1011: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1012: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1013: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1014: <p>
1.106 louis 1015:
1.113 naddy 1016: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1017: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1018: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1019: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1020:
1021: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1022: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1023: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1024: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1025: <p>
1.107 louis 1026:
1.113 naddy 1027: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.105 louis 1028: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/open_source/articles/0006bsd.shtml">The
1029: state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1030: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1031:
1032: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1033: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1034: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1035: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1036: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1037: <p>
1.105 louis 1038:
1.113 naddy 1039: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1040: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1041: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1042: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1043:
1.113 naddy 1044: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1045: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1046: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1047: <p>
1.104 louis 1048:
1.121 deraadt 1049: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1050: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1051: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1052: </strong></font><br>
1053:
1054: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1055: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1056: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1057: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1058: <p>
1059:
1.85 louis 1060: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1061:
1.113 naddy 1062: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1063: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1064: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1065: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1066:
1067: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1068: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1069: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1070: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1071: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1072: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1073: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1074: <p>
1.99 louis 1075:
1.113 naddy 1076: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1077: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1078: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1079: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1080:
1081: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1082: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1083: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1084: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1085: <p>
1.100 louis 1086:
1.113 naddy 1087: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1088: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1089: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1090: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1091:
1092: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1093: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1094: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1095: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1096: <p>
1.95 louis 1097:
1.113 naddy 1098: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1099: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1100: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1101: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1102:
1103: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1104: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1105: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1106: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1107: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1108: <p>
1.92 louis 1109:
1.113 naddy 1110: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1111: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1112: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1113: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1114:
1115: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1116: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1117: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1118: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1119: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1120: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1121: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1122: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1123: <p>
1.91 louis 1124:
1.113 naddy 1125: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1126: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1127: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1128: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1129:
1130: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1131: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1132: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1133: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1134: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1135: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1136: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1137: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1138: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1139: <p>
1.90 louis 1140:
1.113 naddy 1141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1142: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1143: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1144: </strong></font><br>
1145: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1146: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1147: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1148: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1149: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1150: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1151: <p>
1152:
1153: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1154: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1155: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1156: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1157:
1.113 naddy 1158: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1159: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1160: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1161: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1162: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1163: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1164: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1165: <p>
1.87 louis 1166:
1.113 naddy 1167: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1168: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1169: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1170: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1171:
1172: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1173: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1174: <p>
1.85 louis 1175:
1.113 naddy 1176: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1177: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1178: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1179: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1180:
1181: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1182: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1183: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1184: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1185: <p>
1.89 louis 1186:
1.113 naddy 1187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1188: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1189: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1190: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1191:
1192: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1193: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1194: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1195: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1196: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1197:
1.78 deraadt 1198: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1199:
1.113 naddy 1200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1201: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1202: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1203: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1204: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1205:
1206: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1207: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1208: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1209: <p>
1.83 louis 1210:
1.113 naddy 1211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1212: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1213: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1214: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1215:
1216: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1217: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1218: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1219: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1220: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1221: <p>
1.93 louis 1222:
1.113 naddy 1223: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1224: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1225: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1226: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1227:
1.83 louis 1228: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1229: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1230: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1231: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1232: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1233: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1234: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1235: <p>
1.82 aaron 1236:
1.113 naddy 1237: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1238: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1239: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1240: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1241:
1.83 louis 1242: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1243: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1244: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1245: <p>
1.80 louis 1246:
1.113 naddy 1247: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1248: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1249: Bad Press</a>,
1250: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1251: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1252:
1253: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1254: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1255: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1256: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1257: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1258: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1259:
1260: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1261:
1.113 naddy 1262: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1263: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1264: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1265: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1267:
1268: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1269: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1270: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1271: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1272: <p>
1.74 louis 1273:
1.113 naddy 1274: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1275: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1276: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1277: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1278:
1279: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1280: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1281: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1282: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1283: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1284: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1285: <p>
1.88 louis 1286:
1.113 naddy 1287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1288: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1289: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1290: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1291:
1292: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1293: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1294: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1295: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1296: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1297: <p>
1.81 louis 1298:
1.113 naddy 1299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1300: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1301: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1303:
1304: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1305: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1306: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1307: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1308: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1309: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1310: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1311: <p>
1.90 louis 1312:
1.113 naddy 1313: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1314: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1315: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1316: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1317:
1318: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1319: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1320: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1321: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1322: <p>
1.71 louis 1323:
1.69 deraadt 1324: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1325:
1.113 naddy 1326: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1327: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1328: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1329: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1330:
1331: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1332: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1333: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1334: <p>
1.70 louis 1335:
1.113 naddy 1336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1337: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1338: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1340:
1341: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1342: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1343: <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 1344: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1345: <p>
1.68 louis 1346:
1.113 naddy 1347: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1348: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1349: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1350: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1351: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1352:
1.111 jufi 1353: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1354: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1355: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1356: "secure by default" installation.
1357: <p>
1.64 louis 1358:
1.113 naddy 1359: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1360: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1361: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1362: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1363:
1.113 naddy 1364: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1365: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1366: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1367: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1368: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1369: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1370: <p>
1.66 louis 1371:
1.113 naddy 1372: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1373: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1374: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1375: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1376:
1377: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1378: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1379: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1380: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1381: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1382: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1383: <p>
1.83 louis 1384:
1.113 naddy 1385: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1386: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1387: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1388: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1389:
1390: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1391: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1392: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1393: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1394: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1395: <p>
1.64 louis 1396:
1.113 naddy 1397: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1398: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1399: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1400: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1401:
1402: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1403: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1404: <p>
1.65 louis 1405:
1.69 deraadt 1406: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1407:
1.113 naddy 1408: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1409: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1410: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1411: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1412:
1413: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1414: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1415: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1416: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1417: <p>
1.88 louis 1418:
1.113 naddy 1419: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1420: <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 1421: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1422:
1423: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1424: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1425: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1426: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1427: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1428: <p>
1.60 louis 1429:
1.113 naddy 1430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1431: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1432: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1433: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1434: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1435:
1436: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1437: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1438: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1439: <p>
1.58 louis 1440:
1.113 naddy 1441: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1442: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1443: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1444:
1445: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1446: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1447: <p>
1.53 louis 1448:
1.113 naddy 1449: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1450: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1451: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1452: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1453:
1454: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1455: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1456: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1457: <p>
1.99 louis 1458:
1.113 naddy 1459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1460: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1461: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1462:
1463: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1464: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1465: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1466: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1467: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1468:
1.113 naddy 1469: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 ! horacio 1470: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
! 1471: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1472: </strong></font><br>
1473:
1474: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1475: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1476: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1477: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1478: <p>
1479:
1480: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1481: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1482: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1483: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1484:
1485: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1486: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1487: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1488:
1.113 naddy 1489: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1490: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1491: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1492:
1493: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1494: in
1.113 naddy 1495: <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 1496: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1497: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1498: <p>
1.53 louis 1499:
1.113 naddy 1500: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1501: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1502: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1503: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1504: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1505:
1.58 louis 1506: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1507: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1508:
1.69 deraadt 1509: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1510:
1.113 naddy 1511: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1512: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1513: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1514: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1515: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1516:
1.58 louis 1517: Kurt Seifried
1518: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1519: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1520: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1521: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1522:
1.113 naddy 1523: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1524: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1525: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1526: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1527:
1528: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1529: <p>
1.96 louis 1530:
1.113 naddy 1531: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1532: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1533: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1534: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1535:
1536: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1537: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1538: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1539: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1540: <p>
1.86 louis 1541:
1.69 deraadt 1542: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1543:
1.113 naddy 1544: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1545: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1546: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1547: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1548:
1549: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1550: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1551: <p>
1.61 louis 1552:
1.113 naddy 1553: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1554: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1555: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1556: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1557: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1558:
1559: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1560: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1561: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1562: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1563: right -- or at least strives to".
1564: <p>
1.48 louis 1565:
1.113 naddy 1566: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1567: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1568: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1569: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1570: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1571: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1572: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1573: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1574: <p>
1.61 louis 1575:
1.113 naddy 1576: <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 1577: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1578: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1579:
1580: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1581: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1582: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1583: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1584: <p>
1.46 louis 1585:
1.113 naddy 1586: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1587: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1588: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1589: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1590:
1591: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1592: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1593: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1594:
1.113 naddy 1595: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1596: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1597: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1599:
1600: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1601: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1602: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1603: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1604: <p>
1.70 louis 1605:
1.69 deraadt 1606: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1607:
1.211 horacio 1608: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1609: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1610: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1611: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1612: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1613:
1614: Kurt Seifried
1615: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1616: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1617: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1618: <p>
1.44 philen 1619:
1.113 naddy 1620: <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 1621: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1622: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1623:
1624: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1625: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1626:
1.113 naddy 1627: <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 1628: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1629: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1630:
1631: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1632: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1633:
1.113 naddy 1634: <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 1635: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1636: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1637:
1638: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1639: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1640: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1641: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1642: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1643:
1.113 naddy 1644: <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 1645: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1646: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1647:
1.36 louis 1648: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1649: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1650:
1.113 naddy 1651: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1652: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1653: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1654: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1655:
1656: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1657: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1658:
1.69 deraadt 1659: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1660:
1.113 naddy 1661: <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 1662: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1663: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1664:
1665: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1666: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1667: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1668:
1.113 naddy 1669: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1670: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1671: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1672: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1673:
1674: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1675: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1676: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1677: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1678: <blockquote>
1679: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1680: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1681: <br>
1682: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1683: </code>
1684: </blockquote>
1685: <p>
1686:
1687: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1688: <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>
1689: <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
1690: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1691:
1692: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1693: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1694: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1695: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1696:
1.113 naddy 1697: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1698: <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 1699: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1700:
1701: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1702: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1703: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1704: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1705: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1706: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1707: <p>
1.19 louis 1708:
1.113 naddy 1709: <li><strong>
1710: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1711: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1712:
1713: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1714: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1715: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1716: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1717: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1718: <p>
1.16 louis 1719:
1.113 naddy 1720: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1721: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1722: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1723: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1724:
1.57 louis 1725: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1726: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1727: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1728: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1729:
1.113 naddy 1730: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1731: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1732: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1733: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1734:
1.113 naddy 1735: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1736:
1.113 naddy 1737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 1738: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 1739: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1740: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1741:
1.23 louis 1742: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1743: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1744: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1745: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1746: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1747: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1748:
1.113 naddy 1749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1750: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1751: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1752: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1753:
1.199 pvalchev 1754: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1755: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1756: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1757: installation.
1.113 naddy 1758: <p>
1.47 louis 1759:
1.113 naddy 1760: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1761: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1762: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1763: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1764:
1765: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1766: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1767:
1.69 deraadt 1768: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1769:
1.113 naddy 1770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1771: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1772: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1773: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1774:
1775: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1776: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1777: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1778: <p>
1.12 louis 1779:
1.113 naddy 1780: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1781: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1782: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1783: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1784:
1785: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1786: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1787: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1788: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1789: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1790: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1791: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1792: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1793:
1.69 deraadt 1794: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1795:
1.113 naddy 1796: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1797: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1798: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1799:
1800: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1801: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1802: available."
1.113 naddy 1803: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1804:
1.69 deraadt 1805: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1806:
1.113 naddy 1807: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1808: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1809: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1810:
1811: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1812: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1813: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1814: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1815: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1816: <p>
1.33 louis 1817:
1.113 naddy 1818: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1819: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1820: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1821: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1822:
1.113 naddy 1823: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1824: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1825: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1826: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1827: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1828: <p>
1.57 louis 1829:
1.69 deraadt 1830: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1831:
1.113 naddy 1832: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1833: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1834: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1835: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1836:
1837: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1838: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1839: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1840:
1.113 naddy 1841: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1842: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1843: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1844: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1845: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1846:
1847: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1848: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1849:
1.113 naddy 1850: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1851: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1852:
1.113 naddy 1853: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1854:
1.113 naddy 1855: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1856: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1857: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1858: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1859:
1860: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1861: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1862:
1.69 deraadt 1863: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1864:
1.113 naddy 1865: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1866: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1867: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1868:
1869: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1870: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1871: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1872:
1.113 naddy 1873: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1874: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1875: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1877:
1878: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1879: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1880: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1881: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1882:
1.69 deraadt 1883: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1884:
1.113 naddy 1885: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1886: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1887: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1888: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1889:
1890: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1891: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1892: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1893: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1894: <p>
1.15 louis 1895:
1.113 naddy 1896: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1897: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1898: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1899: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1900:
1901: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1902: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1903: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1904: columns."
1.113 naddy 1905: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1906:
1.69 deraadt 1907: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1908:
1.113 naddy 1909: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1910: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1911: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1912: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1913:
1914: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1915: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1916:
1.113 naddy 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1918: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1919: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1920:
1921: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1922: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1923: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1924:
1.69 deraadt 1925: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1926:
1.113 naddy 1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1928: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1929: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1930: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1931:
1932: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1933: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1934: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1935: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1936: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1937:
1.69 deraadt 1938: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1939:
1.113 naddy 1940: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1941: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1942: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1943:
1.69 deraadt 1944: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1945: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1946: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1947:
1.69 deraadt 1948: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1949:
1.113 naddy 1950: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1951: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
1952: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 1953: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1954:
1955: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
1956: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 1957: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1960: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 1961: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
1962: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 1963: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1964:
1.69 deraadt 1965: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1966:
1.113 naddy 1967: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1968: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 1969: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
1970: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 1971: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 1972: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1973:
1974: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
1975: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
1976: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 1977: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 1978: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 1979: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1980:
1981: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1982:
1.113 naddy 1983: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1984: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 1985: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1986:
1.69 deraadt 1987: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
1988: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 1989: <p>
1.112 naddy 1990:
1.113 naddy 1991: </dl>
1992: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1993:
1.113 naddy 1994: <hr>
1995: <a name=se></a>
1996: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 1997:
1.200 niklas 1998: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1999:
2000: <dl>
2001: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2002: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2003: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2004:
2005: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2006: <p>
2007:
2008: </dl>
2009:
2010: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2011:
2012: <dl>
2013: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2014: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2015: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2016:
2017: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2018: <p>
2019:
2020: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2021: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2022: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2023:
2024: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2025: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2026: <p>
2027:
2028: </dl>
2029:
2030: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2031:
2032: <dl>
2033: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2034: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2035: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2036:
2037: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2038: <p>
2039:
2040: </dl>
2041:
1.102 niklas 2042: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <dl>
2045: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2046: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2047: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2048:
2049: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2050: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2051: <p>
1.102 niklas 2052:
1.113 naddy 2053: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2054:
1.84 niklas 2055: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2056:
1.113 naddy 2057: <dl>
2058: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2059: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2060: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2061:
2062: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2063: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2064: <p>
1.84 niklas 2065:
1.113 naddy 2066: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2067:
1.69 deraadt 2068: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2069:
1.113 naddy 2070: <dl>
2071: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2072: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2073: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2074:
2075: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
2076: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2077: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2078: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2079:
1.113 naddy 2080: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2081: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2082: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2083: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2084: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2085:
1.20 louis 2086: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2087: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2088: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2089: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2090: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2091:
1.113 naddy 2092: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2093:
1.113 naddy 2094: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2095: <a name=fi></a>
2096: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2097:
2098: <dl>
2099:
2100: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2101:
2102: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2103: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2104: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2105:
2106: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2107: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2108: </dl>
2109:
2110: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2111: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2112:
1.113 naddy 2113: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2114:
1.113 naddy 2115: <dl>
1.20 louis 2116:
1.170 louis 2117: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2118:
2119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2120: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2121: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2122: </strong></font><br>
2123:
2124: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2125: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2126: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2127: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2128: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2129: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2130: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
2131: <p>
2132:
1.69 deraadt 2133: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2134:
1.113 naddy 2135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2136: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2137: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2138: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2139:
2140: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2141: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2142: translating and reprinting articles from
2143: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2144: <p>
1.112 naddy 2145:
1.113 naddy 2146: </dl>
1.20 louis 2147:
1.113 naddy 2148: <hr>
2149: <a name=de></a>
2150: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2151: <dl>
1.50 louis 2152:
1.151 louis 2153: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2154:
2155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2156: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2157: </strong></font><br>
2158:
2159: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2160: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2161: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2162: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2163: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2164:
2165: <p>
2166:
1.72 louis 2167: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2168:
1.113 naddy 2169: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2170: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2171: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2172: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2173:
1.101 jufi 2174: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2175: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2176: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2177: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2178: Giving way to
2179: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2180: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2181: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2182: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2183: <p>
1.72 louis 2184:
1.69 deraadt 2185: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2186:
1.113 naddy 2187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2188: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2189: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2190: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2191:
2192: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2193: <p>
2194: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2195:
1.50 louis 2196:
1.113 naddy 2197: <hr>
2198: <a name=ru></a>
2199: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2200: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2201:
1.69 deraadt 2202: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2203:
1.113 naddy 2204: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2205: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2206: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2207: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2208:
2209: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2210: <p>
1.62 form 2211:
1.69 deraadt 2212: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2213:
1.113 naddy 2214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2215: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2216: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2217: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2218:
1.59 form 2219: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2220: <p>
1.112 naddy 2221:
1.113 naddy 2222: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2223:
1.113 naddy 2224: <hr>
2225: <a name=pl></a>
2226: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2227: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2228:
1.113 naddy 2229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2230: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2231: Radio, August 2, 2000
2232: </strong></font><br>
2233:
2234: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2235: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2236: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2237: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2238: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2239: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2240: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2241: <p>
2242:
2243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2244: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2245: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2246: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2247: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2248:
2249: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2250: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2251: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2252: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2253: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2254: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2255: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2256: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2257: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2258: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2259: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2260: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
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