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1.113 naddy 15: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</font></h2>
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31: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
32: <dl>
1.16 louis 33:
1.218 horacio 34: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
35:
36: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
37: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
38: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 5, 2001
39: </strong></font><br>
40:
41: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
42: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
43: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
44: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
45: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
46: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
47: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
48: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
49: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 50: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 51: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
52: on other operating systems.<br>
53: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
54: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
55: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
56: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
57: <p>
58:
1.221 horacio 59: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
60: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
61: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
62: </strong></font><br>
63:
64: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
65: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
66: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
67: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
68: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
69: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
70: <p>
71:
1.210 jufi 72: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 73:
1.210 jufi 74: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 ! horacio 75: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 76: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
77: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 78:
1.224 ! horacio 79: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
! 80: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
! 81: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
! 82: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
! 83: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
! 84: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 85: <p>
86:
87: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
88:
89: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
90: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
91: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
92: </strong></font><br>
93:
94: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
95: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
96: security and says that even secured operating systems running
97: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
98: to time.<br>
99: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
100: system and just the most secure system.
101: <p>
102:
103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
104: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
105: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
106: </strong></font><br>
107:
108: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
109: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
110: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
111: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
112: choice:<br>
113: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
114: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
115: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
116: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
117: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
118: network security devices and as such must be well
119: armored."</em><br>
120: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
121: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
122: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
123: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
124: <br>
125: Bravo!
126: <p>
1.210 jufi 127:
1.207 ian 128: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 129:
1.207 ian 130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
131: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
132: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
133: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 134:
1.207 ian 135: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
136: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 137: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 138: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
139: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
140: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 141: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 142: <p>
1.207 ian 143:
1.194 jufi 144: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
145:
146: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 147: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
148: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
149: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 150:
1.213 horacio 151: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
152: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
153: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
154: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 158: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772049,00.html">
1.201 horacio 159: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
160: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
161: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 162:
1.201 horacio 163: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 164: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 165: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
166: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
167: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 168: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 169: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
170: <br>
171: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
172: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
173: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
174: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 178: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
179: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 180: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 181: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 182:
1.194 jufi 183: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
184: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
185: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
186: <br>
187: The new
188: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 189: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
190: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
191: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 192:
1.190 horacio 193: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
194:
195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 196:
197: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
198: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
199:
200: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
201: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
202:
203: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
204: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
205:
1.212 horacio 206: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
207: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 208: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
209:
1.211 horacio 210: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
211: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 212: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
213:
214: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
215: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
216:
217: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
218: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
219:
1.212 horacio 220: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
221: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 222: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
223:
224: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
225: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
226:
227: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
228: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
229:
230: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
231: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
232:
233: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 234: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 235:
1.192 jufi 236: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
237: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 238: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 239:
1.193 deraadt 240: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
241: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 242: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 243:
1.196 deraadt 244: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
245: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
246:
1.198 pvalchev 247: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
248: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
249: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
250:
1.213 horacio 251: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
252: 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>,
253: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
254:
1.190 horacio 255: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 256: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
257: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
258: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
259: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
260: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
261: <p>
1.190 horacio 262:
1.191 jufi 263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 264: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
265: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
266: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 267: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 268:
1.195 jufi 269: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 270: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
271: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
272: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 273: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 277: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
278: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
279: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
280: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 281:
1.191 jufi 282: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
283: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
284: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
285: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 286: <p>
287:
1.191 jufi 288:
1.186 jufi 289: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 290:
1.186 jufi 291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
292: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 293: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
294: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 295: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 296:
1.188 jufi 297: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 298: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 299: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 300: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
301: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 302: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 303: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 304: <p>
305:
1.191 jufi 306:
307: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 308: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
309: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
310: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 311: </strong></font><br>
312:
313: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
314: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
315: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
316: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
317: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
318: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
319: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
320: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
321: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
322: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
323: familiar?
324: <p>
325:
1.178 louis 326: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
327:
328: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
330: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 331: </strong></font><br>
332:
333: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
334: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
335: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
336: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
337: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
338: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
339: <p>
340:
1.179 louis 341: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
342: <a
1.182 louis 343: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
344: </strong></font><br>
345:
346: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
347: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
348: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
349: <p>
350:
351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
352: <a
1.179 louis 353: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
354: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
355: </strong></font><br>
356:
357: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
358: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
359: <p>
360:
1.174 louis 361:
1.175 louis 362: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
363:
364: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
365: <a
1.179 louis 366: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
367: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
368: </strong></font><br>
369:
370: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
371: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
372: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
373: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
374: <p>
375:
376: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
377: <a
1.183 ian 378: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 379: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
380: </strong></font><br>
381:
382: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 383: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 384: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
385: <p>
386:
1.176 louis 387:
1.172 mickey 388: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
389:
390: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 391: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 392: </strong></font><br>
393:
394: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
395: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
396: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 397: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 398: <p>
399:
400: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
401: <a
1.174 louis 402: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
403: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
404: </strong></font><br>
405:
406: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
407: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
408: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
409: <p>
410:
411: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
412: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
413: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
414: </strong></font><br>
415:
416: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
417: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
418: <p>
419:
420: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
421: <a
422: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
423: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
424: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
425: </strong></font><br>
426:
427: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
428: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
429: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
430: our own Theo de Raadt.
431: <p>
432:
433: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
434: <a
435: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
436: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
437: </strong></font><br>
438:
439: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
440: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
441: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
442: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
443: shut down.]
444: <p>
445:
446: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
447: <a
1.206 ian 448: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 449: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 450: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 451: </strong></font><br>
452:
453: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
454: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
455: <p>
456:
1.161 louis 457: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
458:
1.175 louis 459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
460: <a
461: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
462: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
463: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
464: </strong></font><br>
465:
466: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
467: by John Wolley
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
471: <a
472: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
473: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
474: </strong></font><br>
475:
476: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
477: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
478: OpenBSD).
479: <p>
480:
1.161 louis 481: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
482: <a
1.171 louis 483: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
484: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
485: </strong></font><br>
486:
487: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
488: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
489: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
490: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
491: and hindsight.
492: <p>
493:
494: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 495: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
496: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
497: </strong></font><br>
498:
499: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
500: <p>
501:
502: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 503: <a
1.168 provos 504: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
505: December 7, 2000
506: </strong></font><br>
507:
508: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
509: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
510: us explain.
511: <p>
512:
513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 514: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
515: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
516: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 517: December 6, 2000
518: </strong></font><br>
519:
520: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
521: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
522: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
523: <p>
524:
525: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
526: <a
1.162 millert 527: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
528: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
529: </strong></font><br>
530:
531: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 532: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 533: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 534: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
535: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
536: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 537: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 538: <p>
1.162 millert 539:
540: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
541: <a
1.161 louis 542: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
543: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
544: </strong></font><br>
545:
546: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
547: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
548: <p>
549:
1.169 louis 550: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
551: <a
552: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
553: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
554: </strong></font><br>
555:
556: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
557: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
558: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
559: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
560: <p>
561:
1.158 louis 562: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 563:
564: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 565: <a
1.175 louis 566: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
567: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
568: </strong></font><br>
569:
570: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
571: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
572: <p>
573:
574: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
575: <a
1.164 deraadt 576: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 577: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 578: </strong></font><br>
579: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
580: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
581: <p>
582:
583: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
584: <a
585: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
586: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
587: </strong></font><br>
588:
589: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
590: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
591: <p>
592:
593: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 594: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 595: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
596: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 597:
1.213 horacio 598: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 599: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
600: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
601: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
602: <p>
1.215 horacio 603:
1.174 louis 604: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
605: <a
606: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
607: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
608: </strong></font><br>
609:
610: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
611: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
612: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
613: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
614: much of the attitude too).
615: <p>
1.161 louis 616:
617: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 618: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
619: BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 620: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 621:
1.157 louis 622: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
623: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
624: <p>
625:
626: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
627:
628: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 629: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
630: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 631: </strong></font><br>
632:
633: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
634: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
635: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
636: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
637: <p>
638:
639: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
640: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
641: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
642: </strong></font><br>
643:
644: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
645: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
646: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
647: it because they love coding...
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
651: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
652: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
653: </strong></font><br>
654:
655: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
656: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
657: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
658: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
659: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
660: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
661: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
662: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
663: <p>
664:
665: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 666: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
667: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
668: </strong></font><br>
669:
670: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
671: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
672: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
673: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
674: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
675: the pizza.
676: <p>
677:
678: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 679: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
680: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
681: </strong></font><br>
682:
683: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
684: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
685: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
686: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
687: problems.
688: <p>
689:
690: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 691: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
692: </strong></font><br>
693:
1.222 miod 694: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 695: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
696: - whether they like it or not.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 700: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
701: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
702: </strong></font><br>
703:
704: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
705: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
706: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 707: <p>
1.148 aaron 708:
709: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 710: <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 711: </strong></font><br>
712:
713: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
714: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
715: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
716: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
717: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
718: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
719: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
720: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
721: <p>
722:
723: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 724: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
725: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 726: </strong></font><br>
727:
728: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
729: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
730: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
731: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
732: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
733: <p>
734:
1.138 louis 735: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
736:
737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 738: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 739: System Takes On Linux</a>,
740: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
741: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 742: </strong></font><br>
743:
1.146 louis 744: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
745: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
746: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
747: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
748: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
749: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
750: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 751: <p>
752:
753: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 754: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
755: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
756: </strong></font><br>
757:
758: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
759: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
760: groups, and even Linux.
761: <p>
762:
763: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 764: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
765: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
766: </strong></font><br>
767:
768: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
769: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
770: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
771: library after installing the OS.
772: <p>
773:
774: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 775: OpenBSD as a VPN Solution <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 776: Sys Admin, September 2000
777: </strong></font><br>
778:
779: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
780: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
781: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
782: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
783: (<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>,
784: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
785: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
786: <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 787: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 788: out of the system.
789: <p>
790:
1.144 louis 791: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
792: <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
793: </strong></font><br>
794:
795: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 796: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
797: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
798: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
799: the IP filtering and address translation.
800: <p>
801:
1.131 louis 802: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
803:
804: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 805: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
806: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
807: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 808: </strong></font><br>
809:
810: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
811: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
812: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 816: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
817: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
818: </strong></font><br>
819:
820: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
821: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
822: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
823: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
824: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
825: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
826: note of"</i>.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 830: <a
831: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
832: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
833: </strong></font><br>
834:
835: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
836: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
837: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
838: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
839: <p>
840:
841: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 842: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 843: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
844: </strong></font><br>
845:
846: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
847: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
848: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
849: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
850: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
851: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
852: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
853: <p>
854:
855: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 856: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
857: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
858: 2000
859: </strong></font><br>
860:
861: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
862: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
863: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
864: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
865: against current industry practices.
866: <p>
867:
868: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 869: <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
870: </strong></font><br>
871:
872: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
873: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
874: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
875: <p>
876:
877: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 878: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
879: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
880: </strong></font><br>
881:
882: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
883: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
884: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
885: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
886: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
887: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
888: careful code reviews, he concludes.
889: <p>
890:
891: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 892: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
893: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
894: </strong></font><br>
895:
896: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
897: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
898: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
899: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
900: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 901: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
902: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
903: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 904: <p>
905:
1.118 louis 906: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
907:
908: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 909: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
910: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
911: </strong></font><br>
912:
913: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
914: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
915: about time. The article mentions that
916: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
917: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
918: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 919: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 920: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
921: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 922: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 923: <p>
924:
925: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 926: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 927: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 928: </strong></font><br>
929:
930: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
931: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
932: of OpenSSH.
933: <p>
934:
935: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 936: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.222 miod 937: IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 938: </strong></font><br>
939:
940: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 941: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 942: bridging.
943: <p>
944:
945: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
946: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
947: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 948: </strong></font><br>
949:
1.121 deraadt 950: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
951: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 952: <p>
953:
954: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 955: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
956: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
957: </strong></font><br>
958:
959: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
960: <p>
961:
962: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 963: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 964: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
965: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 966: </strong></font><br>
967:
1.120 deraadt 968: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
969: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 970: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
971: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
972: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
973: <p>
974:
975: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 976: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
977: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
978: </strong></font><br>
979:
1.222 miod 980: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 981: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
982: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
983: protocols and their quirks.
984: <p>
985:
986: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 987: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
988: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 989: </strong></font><br>
990:
991: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
992: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
993: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 994: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 998: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
999: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1000: </strong></font><br>
1001:
1002: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1003: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1004: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1008: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1009: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1010: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012:
1013: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1014: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1015: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1016: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1017: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1018: <p>
1019:
1.104 louis 1020: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1021:
1.113 naddy 1022: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1023: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1024: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1025: </strong></font><br>
1026:
1027: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1028: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1029: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1030: be a bit dry.
1031: <p>
1032:
1033: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1034: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1035: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1036: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1037: </strong></font><br>
1038: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1039: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1040: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1041: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1042: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1043: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1044: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1045: <p>
1046:
1047: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1048: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1049: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1050: 2000
1.128 louis 1051: </strong></font><br>
1052:
1053: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1054: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1055: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1056: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1057: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1058: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1059: <p>
1060:
1061: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1062: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1063: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1064: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1065:
1066: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1067: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1068: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1069: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1070: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1071: <p>
1.110 louis 1072:
1.117 louis 1073: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1074: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1075: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1076: </strong></font><br>
1077:
1078: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1079: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1080: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1081: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1082: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1083: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1084: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1085: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1086: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1087: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1088: <p>
1089:
1.113 naddy 1090: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1091: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1092: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1093:
1094: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1095: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1096: <p>
1.108 louis 1097:
1.113 naddy 1098: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1099: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1100: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1101: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1102:
1103: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1104: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1105: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1106: <p>
1.106 louis 1107:
1.113 naddy 1108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1109: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1110: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1111: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1112:
1113: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1114: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1115: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1116: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1117: <p>
1.107 louis 1118:
1.113 naddy 1119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1120: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1121: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1122: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1123:
1124: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1125: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1126: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1127: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1128: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1129: <p>
1.105 louis 1130:
1.113 naddy 1131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1132: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1133: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1134: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1135:
1.113 naddy 1136: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1137: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1138: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1139: <p>
1.104 louis 1140:
1.121 deraadt 1141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1142: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1143: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1144: </strong></font><br>
1145:
1146: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1147: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1148: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1149: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1150: <p>
1151:
1.85 louis 1152: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1153:
1.113 naddy 1154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1155: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1156: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1157: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1158:
1159: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1160: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1161: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1162: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1163: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1164: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1165: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1166: <p>
1.99 louis 1167:
1.113 naddy 1168: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1169: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1170: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1171: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1172:
1173: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1174: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1175: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1176: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1177: <p>
1.100 louis 1178:
1.113 naddy 1179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1180: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1181: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1182: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1183:
1184: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1185: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1186: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1187: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1188: <p>
1.95 louis 1189:
1.113 naddy 1190: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1191: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1192: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1193: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1194:
1195: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1196: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1197: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1198: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1199: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1200: <p>
1.92 louis 1201:
1.113 naddy 1202: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1203: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1204: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1205: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1206:
1207: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1208: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1209: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1210: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1211: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1212: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1213: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1214: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1215: <p>
1.91 louis 1216:
1.113 naddy 1217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1218: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1219: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1220: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1221:
1222: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1223: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1224: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1225: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1226: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1227: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1228: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1229: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1230: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1231: <p>
1.90 louis 1232:
1.113 naddy 1233: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1234: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1235: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1236: </strong></font><br>
1237: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1238: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1239: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1240: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1241: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1242: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1243: <p>
1244:
1245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1246: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1247: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1248: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1249:
1.113 naddy 1250: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1251: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1252: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1253: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1254: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1255: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1256: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1257: <p>
1.87 louis 1258:
1.113 naddy 1259: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1260: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1261: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1262: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1263:
1264: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1265: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1266: <p>
1.85 louis 1267:
1.113 naddy 1268: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1269: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1270: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1271: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1272:
1273: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1274: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1275: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1276: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1277: <p>
1.89 louis 1278:
1.113 naddy 1279: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1280: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1281: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1282: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1283:
1284: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1285: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1286: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1287: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1288: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1289:
1.78 deraadt 1290: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1291:
1.113 naddy 1292: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1293: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1294: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1295: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1296: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1297:
1298: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1299: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1300: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1301: <p>
1.83 louis 1302:
1.113 naddy 1303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1304: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1305: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1306: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1307:
1308: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1309: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1310: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1311: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1312: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1313: <p>
1.93 louis 1314:
1.113 naddy 1315: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1316: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1317: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1318: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1319: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1320:
1.83 louis 1321: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1322: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1323: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1324: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1325: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1326: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1327: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1328: <p>
1.82 aaron 1329:
1.113 naddy 1330: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1331: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1332: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1333: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1334:
1.83 louis 1335: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1336: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1337: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1338: <p>
1.80 louis 1339:
1.113 naddy 1340: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1341: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1342: Bad Press</a>,
1343: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1344: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1345:
1346: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1347: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1348: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1349: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1350: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1351: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1352:
1353: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1354:
1.113 naddy 1355: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1356: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1357: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1358: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1359: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1360:
1361: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1362: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1363: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1364: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1365: <p>
1.74 louis 1366:
1.113 naddy 1367: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1368: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1369: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1370: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1371:
1.219 horacio 1372: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1373: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1374: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1375: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1376: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1377: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1378: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1379: <p>
1.88 louis 1380:
1.113 naddy 1381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1382: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1383: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1384: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1385:
1386: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1387: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1388: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1389: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1390: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1391: <p>
1.81 louis 1392:
1.113 naddy 1393: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1394: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1395: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1396: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1397:
1398: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1399: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1400: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1401: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1402: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1403: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1404: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1405: <p>
1.90 louis 1406:
1.113 naddy 1407: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1408: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1409: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1410: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1411:
1412: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1413: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1414: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1415: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1416: <p>
1.71 louis 1417:
1.69 deraadt 1418: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1419:
1.113 naddy 1420: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1421: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1422: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1423: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1424:
1425: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1426: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1427: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1428: <p>
1.70 louis 1429:
1.113 naddy 1430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1431: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1432: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1433: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1434:
1435: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1436: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1437: <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 1438: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1439: <p>
1.68 louis 1440:
1.113 naddy 1441: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1442: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1443: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1444: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1445: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1446:
1.111 jufi 1447: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1448: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1449: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1450: "secure by default" installation.
1451: <p>
1.64 louis 1452:
1.113 naddy 1453: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1454: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1455: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1456: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1457:
1.113 naddy 1458: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1459: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1460: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1461: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1462: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1463: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1464: <p>
1.66 louis 1465:
1.113 naddy 1466: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1467: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1468: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1469: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1470:
1471: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1472: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1473: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1474: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1475: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1476: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1477: <p>
1.83 louis 1478:
1.113 naddy 1479: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1480: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1481: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1482: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1483:
1484: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1485: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1486: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1487: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1488: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1489: <p>
1.64 louis 1490:
1.113 naddy 1491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1492: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1493: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1494: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1495:
1496: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1497: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1498: <p>
1.65 louis 1499:
1.69 deraadt 1500: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1501:
1.113 naddy 1502: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1503: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1504: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1505: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1506:
1507: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1508: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1509: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1510: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1511: <p>
1.88 louis 1512:
1.113 naddy 1513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1514: <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 1515: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1516:
1517: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1518: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1519: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1520: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1521: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1522: <p>
1.60 louis 1523:
1.113 naddy 1524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1525: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1526: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1527: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1528: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1529:
1530: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1531: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1532: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1533: <p>
1.58 louis 1534:
1.113 naddy 1535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1536: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1537: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1538:
1539: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1540: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1541: <p>
1.53 louis 1542:
1.113 naddy 1543: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1544: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1545: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1546: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1547:
1548: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1549: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1550: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1551: <p>
1.99 louis 1552:
1.113 naddy 1553: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1554: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1555: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1556:
1557: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1558: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1559: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1560: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1561: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1562:
1.113 naddy 1563: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1564: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1565: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1566: </strong></font><br>
1567:
1568: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1569: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1570: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1571: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1572: <p>
1573:
1574: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1575: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1576: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1577: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1578:
1579: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1580: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1581: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1582:
1.113 naddy 1583: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1584: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1585: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1586:
1587: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1588: in
1.113 naddy 1589: <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 1590: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1591: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1592: <p>
1.53 louis 1593:
1.113 naddy 1594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1595: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1596: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1597: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1599:
1.58 louis 1600: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1601: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1602:
1.69 deraadt 1603: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1604:
1.113 naddy 1605: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1606: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1607: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1608: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1609: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1610:
1.58 louis 1611: Kurt Seifried
1612: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1613: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1614: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1615: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1616:
1.113 naddy 1617: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1618: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1619: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1620: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1621:
1622: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1623: <p>
1.96 louis 1624:
1.113 naddy 1625: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1626: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1627: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1628: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1629:
1630: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1631: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1632: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1633: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1634: <p>
1.86 louis 1635:
1.69 deraadt 1636: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1637:
1.113 naddy 1638: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1639: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1640: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1641: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1642:
1643: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1644: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1645: <p>
1.61 louis 1646:
1.113 naddy 1647: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1648: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1649: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1650: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1651: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1652:
1653: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1654: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1655: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1656: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1657: right -- or at least strives to".
1658: <p>
1.48 louis 1659:
1.113 naddy 1660: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1661: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1662: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1663: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1664: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1665: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1666: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1667: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1668: <p>
1.61 louis 1669:
1.113 naddy 1670: <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 1671: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1672: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1673:
1674: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1675: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1676: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1677: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1678: <p>
1.46 louis 1679:
1.113 naddy 1680: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1681: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1682: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1683: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1684:
1685: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1686: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1687: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1688:
1.113 naddy 1689: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1690: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1691: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1692: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1693:
1694: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1695: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1696: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1697: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1698: <p>
1.70 louis 1699:
1.69 deraadt 1700: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1701:
1.211 horacio 1702: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1703: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1704: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1705: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1706: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1707:
1708: Kurt Seifried
1709: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1710: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1711: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1712: <p>
1.44 philen 1713:
1.113 naddy 1714: <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 1715: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1716: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1717:
1718: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1719: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1720:
1.113 naddy 1721: <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 1722: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1723: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1724:
1725: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1726: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1727:
1.113 naddy 1728: <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 1729: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1730: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1731:
1732: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1733: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1734: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1735: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1736: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1737:
1.113 naddy 1738: <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 1739: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1740: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1741:
1.36 louis 1742: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1743: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1744:
1.113 naddy 1745: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1746: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1747: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1748: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1749:
1750: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1751: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1752:
1.69 deraadt 1753: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1754:
1.113 naddy 1755: <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 1756: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1757: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1758:
1759: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1760: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1761: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1762:
1.113 naddy 1763: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1764: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1765: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1766: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1767:
1768: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1769: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1770: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1771: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1772: <blockquote>
1773: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1774: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1775: <br>
1776: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1777: </code>
1778: </blockquote>
1779: <p>
1780:
1781: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1782: <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>
1783: <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
1784: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1785:
1786: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1787: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1788: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1789: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1790:
1.113 naddy 1791: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1792: <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 1793: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1794:
1795: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1796: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1797: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1798: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1799: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1800: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1801: <p>
1.19 louis 1802:
1.113 naddy 1803: <li><strong>
1804: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1805: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1806:
1807: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1808: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1809: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1810: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1811: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1812: <p>
1.16 louis 1813:
1.113 naddy 1814: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1815: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1816: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1817: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1818:
1.57 louis 1819: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1820: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1821: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1822: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1823:
1.113 naddy 1824: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1825: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1826: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1827: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1828:
1.113 naddy 1829: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1830:
1.113 naddy 1831: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1832: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
1833: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1834: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1835:
1.23 louis 1836: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1837: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1838: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1839: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1840: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1841: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1842:
1.113 naddy 1843: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1844: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1845: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1846: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1847:
1.199 pvalchev 1848: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1849: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1850: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1851: installation.
1.113 naddy 1852: <p>
1.47 louis 1853:
1.113 naddy 1854: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1855: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1856: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1857: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1858:
1859: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1860: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1861:
1.69 deraadt 1862: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1863:
1.113 naddy 1864: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1865: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1866: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1867: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1868:
1869: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1870: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1871: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1872: <p>
1.12 louis 1873:
1.113 naddy 1874: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1875: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1876: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1877: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1878:
1879: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1880: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1881: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1882: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1883: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1884: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1885: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1886: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1887:
1.69 deraadt 1888: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1889:
1.113 naddy 1890: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1891: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1892: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1893:
1894: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1895: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1896: available."
1.113 naddy 1897: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1898:
1.69 deraadt 1899: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1900:
1.113 naddy 1901: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1902: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1903: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1904:
1905: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1906: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1907: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1908: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1909: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1910: <p>
1.33 louis 1911:
1.113 naddy 1912: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1913: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1914: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1915: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1916:
1.113 naddy 1917: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1918: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1919: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1920: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1921: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1922: <p>
1.57 louis 1923:
1.69 deraadt 1924: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1925:
1.113 naddy 1926: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1927: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1928: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1929: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1930:
1931: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1932: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1934:
1.113 naddy 1935: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1936: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1937: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1938: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1939: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1940:
1941: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1942: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1943:
1.113 naddy 1944: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1945: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1946:
1.113 naddy 1947: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1948:
1.113 naddy 1949: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1950: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1951: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1952: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1953:
1954: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1955: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1956:
1.69 deraadt 1957: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1960: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1961: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1962:
1963: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1964: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1965: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1966:
1.113 naddy 1967: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1968: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1969: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1970: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1971:
1972: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1973: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1974: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1975: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1976:
1.69 deraadt 1977: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1978:
1.113 naddy 1979: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1980: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1981: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1982: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1983:
1984: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1985: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1986: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1987: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1988: <p>
1.15 louis 1989:
1.113 naddy 1990: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1991: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1992: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1993: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1994:
1995: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1996: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1997: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1998: columns."
1.113 naddy 1999: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2000:
1.69 deraadt 2001: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2002:
1.113 naddy 2003: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2004: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2005: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2006: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2007:
2008: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2009: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2010:
1.113 naddy 2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2012: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2013: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2014:
2015: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2016: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2017: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2018:
1.69 deraadt 2019: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2020:
1.113 naddy 2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2022: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2023: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2024: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2025:
1.222 miod 2026: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2027: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2028: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2029: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2030: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2031:
1.69 deraadt 2032: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2033:
1.113 naddy 2034: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2035: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2036: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2037:
1.69 deraadt 2038: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2039: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2040: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2041:
1.69 deraadt 2042: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2045: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2046: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2047: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2048:
2049: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2050: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2051: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2052:
1.113 naddy 2053: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2054: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2055: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2056: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2057: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2058:
1.69 deraadt 2059: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2060:
1.113 naddy 2061: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2062: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2063: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2064: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2065: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2066: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2067:
2068: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2069: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2070: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2071: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2072: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2073: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2074:
2075: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2076:
1.113 naddy 2077: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2078: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2079: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2080:
1.69 deraadt 2081: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2082: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2083: <p>
1.112 naddy 2084:
1.113 naddy 2085: </dl>
2086: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2087:
1.113 naddy 2088: <hr>
2089: <a name=se></a>
2090: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2091:
1.200 niklas 2092: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2093:
2094: <dl>
2095: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2096: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2097: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2098:
2099: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2100: <p>
2101:
2102: </dl>
2103:
2104: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2105:
2106: <dl>
2107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2108: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2109: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2110:
2111: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2112: <p>
2113:
2114: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2115: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2116: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2117:
2118: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2119: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2120: <p>
2121:
2122: </dl>
2123:
2124: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2125:
2126: <dl>
2127: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2128: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2129: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2130:
2131: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2132: <p>
2133:
2134: </dl>
2135:
1.102 niklas 2136: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2137:
1.113 naddy 2138: <dl>
2139: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2140: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2141: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2142:
2143: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2144: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2145: <p>
1.102 niklas 2146:
1.113 naddy 2147: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2148:
1.84 niklas 2149: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2150:
1.113 naddy 2151: <dl>
2152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2153: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2154: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2155:
2156: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2157: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2158: <p>
1.84 niklas 2159:
1.113 naddy 2160: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2161:
1.69 deraadt 2162: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2163:
1.113 naddy 2164: <dl>
2165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2166: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2167: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2168:
1.222 miod 2169: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2170: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2171: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2172: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2173:
1.113 naddy 2174: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2175: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2176: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2177: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2178: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2179:
1.20 louis 2180: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2181: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2182: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2183: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2184: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2185:
1.113 naddy 2186: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2187:
1.113 naddy 2188: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2189: <a name=fi></a>
2190: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2191:
2192: <dl>
2193:
2194: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2195:
2196: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2197: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2198: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2199:
2200: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2201: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2202: </dl>
2203:
2204: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2205: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2206:
1.113 naddy 2207: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2208:
1.113 naddy 2209: <dl>
1.20 louis 2210:
1.170 louis 2211: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2212:
2213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2214: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2215: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2216: </strong></font><br>
2217:
2218: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2219: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2220: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2221: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2222: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2223: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2224: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2225: <p>
2226:
1.69 deraadt 2227: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2228:
1.113 naddy 2229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2230: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2231: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2232: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2233:
2234: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2235: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2236: translating and reprinting articles from
2237: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2238: <p>
1.112 naddy 2239:
1.113 naddy 2240: </dl>
1.20 louis 2241:
1.113 naddy 2242: <hr>
2243: <a name=de></a>
2244: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2245: <dl>
1.50 louis 2246:
1.151 louis 2247: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2248:
2249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2250: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2251: </strong></font><br>
2252:
2253: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2254: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2255: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2256: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2257: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2258:
2259: <p>
2260:
1.72 louis 2261: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2262:
1.113 naddy 2263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2264: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2265: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2266: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2267:
1.101 jufi 2268: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2269: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2270: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2271: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2272: Giving way to
2273: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2274: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2275: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2276: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2277: <p>
1.72 louis 2278:
1.69 deraadt 2279: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2280:
1.113 naddy 2281: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2282: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2283: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2284: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2285:
2286: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2287: <p>
2288: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2289:
1.50 louis 2290:
1.113 naddy 2291: <hr>
2292: <a name=ru></a>
2293: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2294: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2295:
1.69 deraadt 2296: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2297:
1.113 naddy 2298: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2299: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2300: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2301: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2302:
2303: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2304: <p>
1.62 form 2305:
1.69 deraadt 2306: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2307:
1.113 naddy 2308: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2309: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2310: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2311: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2312:
1.59 form 2313: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2314: <p>
1.112 naddy 2315:
1.113 naddy 2316: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2317:
1.113 naddy 2318: <hr>
2319: <a name=pl></a>
2320: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2321: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2322:
1.113 naddy 2323: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2324: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2325: Radio, August 2, 2000
2326: </strong></font><br>
2327:
2328: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2329: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2330: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2331: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2332: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2333: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2334: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2335: <p>
2336:
2337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2338: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2339: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2340: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2341: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2342:
2343: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2344: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2345: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2346: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2347: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2348: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2349: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2350: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2351: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2352: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2353: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2354: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2355: <p>
2356: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2357:
1.113 naddy 2358: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2359: <a name=es></a>
2360: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2361: <dl>
2362:
2363: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2364:
2365: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2366: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2367: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2368: </strong></font><br>
2369:
2370: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2371: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2372: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2373: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2374: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2375: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2376: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2377: <p>
2378: </dl>
2379:
2380:
2381: <hr>
2382: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.113 naddy 2383: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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