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31: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
32: <dl>
1.16 louis 33:
1.228 ! horacio 34: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
! 35:
! 36: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 37: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
! 38: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
! 39: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
! 40: </strong></font><br>
! 41:
! 42: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
! 43: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
! 44: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
! 45: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
! 46: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
! 47: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
! 48: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
! 49: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
! 50: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
! 51: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
! 52: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
! 53: security conscious team beyond doubt.
! 54: <p>
! 55:
1.225 horacio 56: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
57:
58: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
59: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
60: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 61: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 62: </strong></font><br>
63:
64: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
65: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
66: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
67: SysV sistems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
68: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
69: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
70: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
71: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
72: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
73: services provider bussiness ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
74: of choice.
75: <p>
76:
77: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
78:
79: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
80: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
81: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
82: </strong></font><br>
83:
84: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
85: <p>
86:
1.226 horacio 87: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
88: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
89: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, January 18, 2001
90: </strong></font><br>
91:
92: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
93: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
94: <p>
1.225 horacio 95:
1.218 horacio 96: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
97:
98: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 99: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
100: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
101: </strong></font><br>
102:
103: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
104: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
105: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
106: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
107: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
108: subjects. Worth a read.
109: <p>
110:
111:
112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.218 horacio 113: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 114: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 115: </strong></font><br>
116:
117: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
118: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
119: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
120: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
121: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
122: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
123: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
124: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
125: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 126: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 127: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
128: on other operating systems.<br>
129: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
130: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
131: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
132: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
133: <p>
134:
1.221 horacio 135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 136: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
137: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
138: </strong></font><br>
139:
140: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
141: covering the level of software integration into the core
142: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
143: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
144: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
145: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
146: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
147: <p>
148:
149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.221 horacio 150: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
151: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
152: </strong></font><br>
153:
154: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
155: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
156: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
157: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
158: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
159: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
160: <p>
161:
1.210 jufi 162: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 163:
1.210 jufi 164: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 165: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
166: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
167: </strong></font><br>
168:
169: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
170: source software in response to an article which claimed that
171: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
172: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
173: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
174: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
175: <p>
176:
177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 horacio 178: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 179: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
180: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 181:
1.224 horacio 182: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
183: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
184: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
185: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
186: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
187: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 188: <p>
189:
190: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
191:
192: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 193: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
194: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
195: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
196: </strong></font><br>
197:
198: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
199: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
200: which was deployed, according to the NAS announcement, to
201: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
202: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
203: investment</em>.<br>
204: The implementation details can be seen on their
205: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
206: <p>
207:
208: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 209: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
210: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
211: </strong></font><br>
212:
213: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
214: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
215: security and says that even secured operating systems running
216: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
217: to time.<br>
218: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
219: system and just the most secure system.
220: <p>
221:
222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
223: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
224: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
225: </strong></font><br>
226:
227: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
228: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
229: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
230: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
231: choice:<br>
232: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
233: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
234: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
235: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
236: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
237: network security devices and as such must be well
238: armored."</em><br>
239: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
240: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
241: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
242: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
243: <br>
244: Bravo!
245: <p>
1.210 jufi 246:
1.207 ian 247: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 248:
1.207 ian 249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
250: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
251: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
252: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 253:
1.207 ian 254: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
255: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 256: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 257: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
258: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
259: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 260: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 261: <p>
1.207 ian 262:
1.194 jufi 263: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
264:
265: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 266: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
267: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
268: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 269:
1.213 horacio 270: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
271: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
272: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
273: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
274: <p>
275:
276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 277: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 278: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
279: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
280: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 281:
1.201 horacio 282: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 283: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 284: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
285: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
286: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 287: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 288: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
289: <br>
290: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
291: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
292: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
293: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
294: <p>
295:
296: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 297: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
298: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 299: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 300: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 301:
1.194 jufi 302: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
303: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
304: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
305: <br>
306: The new
307: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 308: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 ! horacio 309: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
! 310: <p>
1.194 jufi 311:
1.190 horacio 312: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
313:
314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 315:
316: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
317: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
318:
319: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
320: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
321:
322: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
323: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
324:
1.212 horacio 325: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
326: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 327: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
328:
1.211 horacio 329: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
330: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 331: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
332:
333: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
334: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
335:
336: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
337: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
338:
1.212 horacio 339: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
340: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 341: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
342:
343: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
344: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
345:
346: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
347: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
348:
349: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
350: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
351:
352: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 353: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 354:
1.192 jufi 355: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
356: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 357: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 358:
1.193 deraadt 359: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
360: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 361: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 362:
1.196 deraadt 363: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
364: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
365:
1.198 pvalchev 366: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
367: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
368: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
369:
1.213 horacio 370: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
371: 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>,
372: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
373:
1.190 horacio 374: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 375: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
376: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
377: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
378: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
379: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
380: <p>
1.190 horacio 381:
1.191 jufi 382: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 383: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
384: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
385: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 386: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 387:
1.195 jufi 388: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 389: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
390: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
391: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 392: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 396: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 397: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
398: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
399: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 400:
1.191 jufi 401: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
402: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
403: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
404: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 405: <p>
406:
1.191 jufi 407:
1.186 jufi 408: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 409:
1.186 jufi 410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
411: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 412: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
413: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 414: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 415:
1.188 jufi 416: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 417: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 418: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 419: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
420: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 421: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 422: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 423: <p>
424:
1.191 jufi 425:
426: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 427: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
428: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
429: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 430: </strong></font><br>
431:
432: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
433: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
434: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
435: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
436: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
437: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
438: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
439: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
440: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
441: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
442: familiar?
443: <p>
444:
1.178 louis 445: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
446:
447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 448: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
449: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 450: </strong></font><br>
451:
452: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
453: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
454: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
455: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
456: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
457: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
458: <p>
459:
1.179 louis 460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
461: <a
1.182 louis 462: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
463: </strong></font><br>
464:
465: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
466: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
467: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
468: <p>
469:
470: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
471: <a
1.179 louis 472: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
473: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
474: </strong></font><br>
475:
476: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
477: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
478: <p>
479:
1.174 louis 480:
1.175 louis 481: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
482:
483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
484: <a
1.179 louis 485: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
486: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
487: </strong></font><br>
488:
489: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
490: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
491: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
492: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
493: <p>
494:
495: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
496: <a
1.183 ian 497: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 498: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
499: </strong></font><br>
500:
501: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 502: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 503: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
504: <p>
505:
1.176 louis 506:
1.172 mickey 507: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
508:
509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 510: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 511: </strong></font><br>
512:
513: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
514: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
515: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 516: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 517: <p>
518:
519: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
520: <a
1.174 louis 521: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
522: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
523: </strong></font><br>
524:
525: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
526: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
527: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
528: <p>
529:
530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
531: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
532: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
533: </strong></font><br>
534:
535: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
536: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
537: <p>
538:
539: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
540: <a
541: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
542: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
543: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
544: </strong></font><br>
545:
546: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
547: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
548: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
549: our own Theo de Raadt.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
553: <a
554: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
555: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
556: </strong></font><br>
557:
558: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
559: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
560: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
561: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
562: shut down.]
563: <p>
564:
565: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
566: <a
1.226 horacio 567: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
568: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 569: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 570: </strong></font><br>
571:
572: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
573: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
574: <p>
575:
1.161 louis 576: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
577:
1.175 louis 578: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
579: <a
580: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
581: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
582: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
583: </strong></font><br>
584:
585: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
586: by John Wolley
587: <p>
588:
589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
590: <a
591: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
592: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
593: </strong></font><br>
594:
595: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
596: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
597: OpenBSD).
598: <p>
599:
1.161 louis 600: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
601: <a
1.171 louis 602: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
603: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
604: </strong></font><br>
605:
606: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
607: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
608: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
609: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
610: and hindsight.
611: <p>
612:
613: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 614: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
615: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
616: </strong></font><br>
617:
618: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
619: <p>
620:
621: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 622: <a
1.168 provos 623: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
624: December 7, 2000
625: </strong></font><br>
626:
627: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
628: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
629: us explain.
630: <p>
631:
632: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 633: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 634: <u>System and Network Security - Kernel Options</u>,
1.211 horacio 635: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 636: December 6, 2000
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
640: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
641: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
642: <p>
643:
644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
645: <a
1.226 horacio 646: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
647: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 648: </strong></font><br>
649:
650: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 651: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 652: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 653: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
654: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
655: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 656: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 657: <p>
1.162 millert 658:
659: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
660: <a
1.161 louis 661: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
662: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
663: </strong></font><br>
664:
665: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
666: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
667: <p>
668:
1.169 louis 669: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 670: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
671: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
672: </strong></font><br>
673:
674: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
675: <p>
676:
677:
678: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.169 louis 679: <a
1.226 horacio 680: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
681: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
682: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 683: </strong></font><br>
684:
685: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
686: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
687: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
688: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
689: <p>
690:
1.158 louis 691: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 692:
693: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 694: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
695: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 696: </strong></font><br>
697:
698: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
699: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
700: <p>
701:
702: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 703: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
704: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
705: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 706: </strong></font><br>
707: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
708: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
712: <a
713: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
714: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
715: </strong></font><br>
716:
717: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
718: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 722: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 723: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
724: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 725:
1.213 horacio 726: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 727: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
728: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
729: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
730: <p>
1.215 horacio 731:
1.174 louis 732: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
733: <a
734: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
735: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
736: </strong></font><br>
737:
738: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
739: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
740: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
741: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
742: much of the attitude too).
743: <p>
1.161 louis 744:
745: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 746: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 747: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 748: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 749:
1.157 louis 750: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
751: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
752: <p>
753:
754: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
755:
756: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 757: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 758: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 759: </strong></font><br>
760:
761: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
762: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
763: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
764: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
765: <p>
766:
767: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
768: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
769: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
770: </strong></font><br>
771:
772: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
773: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
774: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
775: it because they love coding...
776: <p>
777:
778: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
779: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
780: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
781: </strong></font><br>
782:
783: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
784: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
785: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
786: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
787: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
788: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
789: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
790: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
791: <p>
792:
793: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 794: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
795: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
796: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 797: </strong></font><br>
798:
799: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
800: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
801: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
802: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
803: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
804: the pizza.
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 808: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
809: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
810: </strong></font><br>
811:
812: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
813: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
814: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
815: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
816: problems.
817: <p>
818:
819: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 820: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
821: </strong></font><br>
822:
1.222 miod 823: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 824: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
825: - whether they like it or not.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 829: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
830: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 831: </strong></font><br>
832:
833: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
834: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
835: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 836: <p>
1.148 aaron 837:
838: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 839: <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 840: </strong></font><br>
841:
842: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
843: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
844: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
845: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
846: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
847: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
848: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
849: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 853: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
854: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 855: </strong></font><br>
856:
857: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
858: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
859: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
860: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
861: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
862: <p>
863:
1.138 louis 864: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
865:
866: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 867: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
868: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
869: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
870: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 871: </strong></font><br>
872:
1.227 horacio 873: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 874: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
875: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
876: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
877: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
878: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
879: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
880: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 881: <p>
882:
883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 884: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.h
885: tml">
886: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 887: </strong></font><br>
888:
889: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
890: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
891: groups, and even Linux.
892: <p>
893:
894: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 895: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
896: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 897: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
898: </strong></font><br>
899:
900: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
901: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
902: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
903: library after installing the OS.
904: <p>
905:
906: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 907: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 908: Sys Admin, September 2000
909: </strong></font><br>
910:
911: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
912: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
913: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
914: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
915: (<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>,
916: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
917: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
918: <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 919: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 920: out of the system.
921: <p>
922:
1.144 louis 923: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
924: <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
925: </strong></font><br>
926:
927: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 928: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
929: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
930: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
931: the IP filtering and address translation.
932: <p>
933:
1.131 louis 934: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
935:
936: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 937: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
938: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
939: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 940: </strong></font><br>
941:
942: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
943: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
944: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
945: <p>
946:
947: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 948: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
949: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
950: </strong></font><br>
951:
952: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
953: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
954: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
955: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
956: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
957: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
958: note of"</i>.
959: <p>
960:
961: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 962: <a
963: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
964: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
965: </strong></font><br>
966:
967: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
968: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
969: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
970: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
971: <p>
972:
973: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 974: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 975: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
976: </strong></font><br>
977:
978: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
979: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
980: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
981: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
982: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
983: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
984: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
985: <p>
986:
987: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 988: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
989: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
990: 2000
991: </strong></font><br>
992:
993: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
994: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
995: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
996: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
997: against current industry practices.
998: <p>
999:
1000: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 1001: <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
1002: </strong></font><br>
1003:
1004: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1005: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1006: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1007: <p>
1008:
1009: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 1010: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1011: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1012: </strong></font><br>
1013:
1014: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1015: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1016: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1017: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1018: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1019: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1020: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1021: <p>
1022:
1023: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 1024: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1025: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1026: </strong></font><br>
1027:
1028: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1029: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1030: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1031: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1032: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1033: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1034: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1035: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1036: <p>
1037:
1.118 louis 1038: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1039:
1040: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1041: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1042: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1043: </strong></font><br>
1044:
1045: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1046: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1047: about time. The article mentions that
1048: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1049: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1050: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1051: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1052: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1053: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1054: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1055: <p>
1056:
1057: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1058: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1059: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061:
1062: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1063: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1064: of OpenSSH.
1065: <p>
1066:
1067: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1068: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1069: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1070: </strong></font><br>
1071:
1072: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1073: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1074: bridging.
1075: <p>
1076:
1077: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1078: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1079: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1080: </strong></font><br>
1081:
1.121 deraadt 1082: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1083: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1087: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1088: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1092: <p>
1093:
1094: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 1095: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1096: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1097: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1098: </strong></font><br>
1099:
1.120 deraadt 1100: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1101: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1102: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1103: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1104: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 1108: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1109: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1110: </strong></font><br>
1111:
1.222 miod 1112: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1113: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1114: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1115: protocols and their quirks.
1116: <p>
1117:
1118: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1119: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1120: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1121: </strong></font><br>
1122:
1123: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1124: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1125: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1126: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1127: <p>
1128:
1129: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 1130: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1131: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1132: </strong></font><br>
1133:
1134: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1135: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1136: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1140: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1141: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1142: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1143: </strong></font><br>
1144:
1145: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1146: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1147: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1148: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1149: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1150: <p>
1151:
1.104 louis 1152: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1153:
1.113 naddy 1154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1155: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1156: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1157: </strong></font><br>
1158:
1159: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1160: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1161: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1162: be a bit dry.
1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1166: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1167: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1168: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1169: </strong></font><br>
1170: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1171: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1172: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1173: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1174: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1175: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1176: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1177: <p>
1178:
1179: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1180: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1181: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1182: 2000
1.128 louis 1183: </strong></font><br>
1184:
1185: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1186: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1187: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1188: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1189: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1190: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1191: <p>
1192:
1193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1194: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1195: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1196: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1197:
1198: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1199: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1200: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1201: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1202: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1203: <p>
1.110 louis 1204:
1.117 louis 1205: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1206: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1207: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1208: </strong></font><br>
1209:
1210: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1211: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1212: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1213: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1214: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1215: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1216: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1217: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1218: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1219: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1220: <p>
1221:
1.113 naddy 1222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1223: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1224: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1225:
1226: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1227: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1228: <p>
1.108 louis 1229:
1.113 naddy 1230: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1231: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1232: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1233: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1234:
1235: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1236: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1237: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1238: <p>
1.106 louis 1239:
1.113 naddy 1240: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1241: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1242: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1243: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1244:
1245: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1246: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1247: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1248: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1249: <p>
1.107 louis 1250:
1.113 naddy 1251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1252: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1253: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1254: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1255:
1256: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1257: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1258: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1259: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1260: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1261: <p>
1.105 louis 1262:
1.113 naddy 1263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1264: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1265: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1267:
1.113 naddy 1268: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1269: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1270: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1271: <p>
1.104 louis 1272:
1.121 deraadt 1273: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1274: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1275: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1276: </strong></font><br>
1277:
1278: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1279: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1280: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1281: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1282: <p>
1283:
1.85 louis 1284: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1285:
1.113 naddy 1286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1287: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1288: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1289: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1290:
1291: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1292: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1293: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1294: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1295: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1296: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1297: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1298: <p>
1.99 louis 1299:
1.113 naddy 1300: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1301: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1302: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1303: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1304:
1305: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1306: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1307: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1308: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1309: <p>
1.100 louis 1310:
1.113 naddy 1311: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1312: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1313: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1314: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1315:
1316: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1317: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1318: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1319: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1320: <p>
1.95 louis 1321:
1.113 naddy 1322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1323: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1324: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1325: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1326:
1327: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1328: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1329: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1330: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1331: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1332: <p>
1.92 louis 1333:
1.113 naddy 1334: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1335: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1336: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1337: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1338:
1339: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1340: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1341: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1342: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1343: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1344: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1345: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1346: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1347: <p>
1.91 louis 1348:
1.113 naddy 1349: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1350: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1351: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1352: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1353:
1354: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1355: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1356: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1357: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1358: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1359: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1360: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1361: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1362: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1363: <p>
1.90 louis 1364:
1.113 naddy 1365: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1366: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1367: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1368: </strong></font><br>
1369: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1370: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1371: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1372: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1373: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1374: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1375: <p>
1376:
1377: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1378: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1379: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1380: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1381:
1.113 naddy 1382: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1383: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1384: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1385: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1386: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1387: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1388: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1389: <p>
1.87 louis 1390:
1.113 naddy 1391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1392: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1393: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1394: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1395:
1396: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1397: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1398: <p>
1.85 louis 1399:
1.113 naddy 1400: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1401: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1402: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1403: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1404:
1405: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1406: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1407: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1408: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1409: <p>
1.89 louis 1410:
1.113 naddy 1411: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1412: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1413: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1414: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1415:
1416: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1417: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1418: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1419: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1420: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1421:
1.78 deraadt 1422: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1423:
1.113 naddy 1424: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1425: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1426: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1427: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1428: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1429:
1430: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1431: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1432: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1433: <p>
1.83 louis 1434:
1.113 naddy 1435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1436: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1437: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1438: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1439:
1440: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1441: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1442: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1443: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1444: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1445: <p>
1.93 louis 1446:
1.113 naddy 1447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1448: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1449: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1450: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1451: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1452:
1.83 louis 1453: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1454: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1455: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1456: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1457: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1458: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1459: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1460: <p>
1.82 aaron 1461:
1.113 naddy 1462: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1463: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1464: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1465: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1466:
1.83 louis 1467: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1468: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1469: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1470: <p>
1.80 louis 1471:
1.113 naddy 1472: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1473: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1474: Bad Press</a>,
1475: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1476: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1477:
1478: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1479: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1480: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1481: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1482: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1483: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1484:
1485: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1486:
1.113 naddy 1487: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1488: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1489: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1490: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1491: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1492:
1493: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1494: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1495: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1496: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1497: <p>
1.74 louis 1498:
1.113 naddy 1499: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1500: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1501: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1502: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1503:
1.219 horacio 1504: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1505: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1506: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1507: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1508: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1509: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1510: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1511: <p>
1.88 louis 1512:
1.113 naddy 1513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1514: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1515: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1516: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1517:
1518: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1519: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1520: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1521: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1522: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1523: <p>
1.81 louis 1524:
1.113 naddy 1525: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1526: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1527: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1528: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1529:
1530: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1531: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1532: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1533: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1534: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1535: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1536: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1537: <p>
1.90 louis 1538:
1.113 naddy 1539: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1540: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1541: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1542: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1543:
1544: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1545: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1546: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1547: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1548: <p>
1.71 louis 1549:
1.69 deraadt 1550: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1551:
1.113 naddy 1552: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1553: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1554: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1555: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1556:
1557: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1558: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1559: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1560: <p>
1.70 louis 1561:
1.113 naddy 1562: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1563: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1564: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1565: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1566:
1567: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1568: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1569: <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 1570: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1571: <p>
1.68 louis 1572:
1.113 naddy 1573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1574: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1575: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1576: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1577: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1578:
1.111 jufi 1579: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1580: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1581: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1582: "secure by default" installation.
1583: <p>
1.64 louis 1584:
1.113 naddy 1585: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1586: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1587: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1588: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1589:
1.113 naddy 1590: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1591: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1592: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1593: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1594: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1595: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1596: <p>
1.66 louis 1597:
1.113 naddy 1598: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1599: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1600: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1601: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1602:
1603: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1604: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1605: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1606: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1607: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1608: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1609: <p>
1.83 louis 1610:
1.113 naddy 1611: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1612: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1613: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1614: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1615:
1616: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1617: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1618: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1619: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1620: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1621: <p>
1.64 louis 1622:
1.113 naddy 1623: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1624: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1625: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1626: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1627:
1628: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1629: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1630: <p>
1.65 louis 1631:
1.69 deraadt 1632: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1633:
1.113 naddy 1634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1635: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1636: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1638:
1639: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1640: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1641: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1642: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1643: <p>
1.88 louis 1644:
1.113 naddy 1645: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1646: <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 1647: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1648:
1649: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1650: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1651: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1652: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1653: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1654: <p>
1.60 louis 1655:
1.113 naddy 1656: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1657: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1658: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1659: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1660: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1661:
1662: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1663: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1664: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1665: <p>
1.58 louis 1666:
1.113 naddy 1667: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1668: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1669: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1670:
1671: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1672: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1673: <p>
1.53 louis 1674:
1.113 naddy 1675: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1676: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1677: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1678: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1679:
1680: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1681: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1682: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1683: <p>
1.99 louis 1684:
1.113 naddy 1685: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1686: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1687: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1688:
1689: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1690: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1691: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1692: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1693: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1694:
1.113 naddy 1695: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1696: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1697: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1698: </strong></font><br>
1699:
1700: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1701: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1702: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1703: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1704: <p>
1705:
1706: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1707: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1708: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1709: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1710:
1711: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1712: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1713: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1714:
1.113 naddy 1715: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1716: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1717: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1718:
1719: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1720: in
1.113 naddy 1721: <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 1722: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1723: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1724: <p>
1.53 louis 1725:
1.113 naddy 1726: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1727: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1728: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1729: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1730: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1731:
1.58 louis 1732: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1733: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1734:
1.69 deraadt 1735: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1736:
1.113 naddy 1737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1738: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1739: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1740: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1741: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1742:
1.58 louis 1743: Kurt Seifried
1744: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1745: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1746: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1747: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1748:
1.113 naddy 1749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1750: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1751: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1752: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1753:
1754: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1755: <p>
1.96 louis 1756:
1.113 naddy 1757: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1758: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1759: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1760: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1761:
1762: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1763: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1764: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1765: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1766: <p>
1.86 louis 1767:
1.69 deraadt 1768: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1769:
1.113 naddy 1770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1771: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1772: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1774:
1775: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1776: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1777: <p>
1.61 louis 1778:
1.113 naddy 1779: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1780: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1781: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1782: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1783: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1784:
1785: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1786: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1787: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1788: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1789: right -- or at least strives to".
1790: <p>
1.48 louis 1791:
1.113 naddy 1792: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1793: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1794: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1795: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1796: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1797: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1798: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1799: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1800: <p>
1.61 louis 1801:
1.113 naddy 1802: <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 1803: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1804: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1805:
1806: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1807: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1808: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1809: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1810: <p>
1.46 louis 1811:
1.113 naddy 1812: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 1813: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
1814: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1815: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1816:
1817: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1818: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1819: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1820:
1.113 naddy 1821: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1822: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1823: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1824: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1825:
1826: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1827: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1828: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1829: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1830: <p>
1.70 louis 1831:
1.69 deraadt 1832: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1833:
1.211 horacio 1834: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1835: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1836: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1837: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1838: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1839:
1840: Kurt Seifried
1841: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1842: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1843: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1844: <p>
1.44 philen 1845:
1.113 naddy 1846: <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 1847: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1849:
1850: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1851: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1852:
1.113 naddy 1853: <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 1854: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1855: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1856:
1857: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1858: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1859:
1.113 naddy 1860: <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 1861: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1862: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1863:
1864: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1865: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1866: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1867: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1868: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1869:
1.113 naddy 1870: <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 1871: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1872: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1873:
1.36 louis 1874: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1875: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1876:
1.113 naddy 1877: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1878: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1879: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1880: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1881:
1882: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1883: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1884:
1.69 deraadt 1885: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1886:
1.113 naddy 1887: <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 1888: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1889: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1890:
1891: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1892: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1893: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1894:
1.113 naddy 1895: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1896: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1897: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1898: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1899:
1900: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1901: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1902: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1903: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1904: <blockquote>
1905: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1906: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1907: <br>
1908: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1909: </code>
1910: </blockquote>
1911: <p>
1912:
1913: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1914: <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>
1915: <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
1916: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1917:
1918: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1919: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1920: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1921: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1922:
1.113 naddy 1923: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1924: <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 1925: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1926:
1927: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1928: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1929: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1930: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1931: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1932: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.19 louis 1934:
1.113 naddy 1935: <li><strong>
1936: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1937: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1938:
1939: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1940: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1941: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1942: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1943: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1944: <p>
1.16 louis 1945:
1.113 naddy 1946: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1947: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1948: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1949: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1950:
1.57 louis 1951: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1952: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1953: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1954: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1955:
1.113 naddy 1956: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1957: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1958: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1959: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1960:
1.113 naddy 1961: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1962:
1.113 naddy 1963: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1964: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
1965: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1966: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1967:
1.23 louis 1968: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1969: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1970: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1971: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1972: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1973: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1974:
1.113 naddy 1975: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1976: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1977: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1978: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1979:
1.199 pvalchev 1980: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1981: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1982: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1983: installation.
1.113 naddy 1984: <p>
1.47 louis 1985:
1.113 naddy 1986: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1987: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1988: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1989: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1990:
1991: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1992: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1993:
1.69 deraadt 1994: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1995:
1.113 naddy 1996: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1997: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1998: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1999: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2000:
2001: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2002: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2003: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2004: <p>
1.12 louis 2005:
1.113 naddy 2006: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2007: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2008: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2009: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2010:
2011: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2012: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2013: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2014: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2015: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2016: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2017: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2018: <p>
1.8 deraadt 2019:
1.69 deraadt 2020: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 2021:
1.113 naddy 2022: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2023: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2024: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2025:
2026: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2027: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2028: available."
1.113 naddy 2029: <p>
1.6 deraadt 2030:
1.69 deraadt 2031: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
2032:
1.113 naddy 2033: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 2034: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2035: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2036:
2037: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2038: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2039: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2040: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2041: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2042: <p>
1.33 louis 2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2045: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2046: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2047: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2048:
1.113 naddy 2049: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2050: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2051: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2052: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2053: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.57 louis 2055:
1.69 deraadt 2056: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
2057:
1.113 naddy 2058: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2059: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2060: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2061: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2062:
2063: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2064: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2065: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2066:
1.113 naddy 2067: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 2068: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2069: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2070: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2071: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2072:
2073: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2074: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2075:
1.113 naddy 2076: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2077: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2078:
1.113 naddy 2079: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2080:
1.113 naddy 2081: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 2082: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2083: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2084: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2085:
2086: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2087: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 2088:
1.69 deraadt 2089: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
2090:
1.113 naddy 2091: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2092: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2093: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2094:
2095: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2096: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2097: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2098:
1.113 naddy 2099: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2100: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2101: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2102: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2103:
2104: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2105: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2106: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2107: site.<p>
1.57 louis 2108:
1.69 deraadt 2109: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
2110:
1.113 naddy 2111: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 2112: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2113: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2114: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2115:
2116: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2117: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2118: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2119: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2120: <p>
1.15 louis 2121:
1.113 naddy 2122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2123: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2124: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2125: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2126:
2127: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2128: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2129: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2130: columns."
1.113 naddy 2131: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2132:
1.69 deraadt 2133: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2134:
1.113 naddy 2135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2136: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2137: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2138: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2139:
2140: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2141: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2142:
1.113 naddy 2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2144: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2145: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2146:
2147: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2148: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2149: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2150:
1.69 deraadt 2151: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2152:
1.113 naddy 2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2154: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2155: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2156: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2157:
1.222 miod 2158: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2159: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2160: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2161: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2162: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2163:
1.69 deraadt 2164: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2165:
1.113 naddy 2166: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2167: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2168: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2169:
1.69 deraadt 2170: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2171: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2172: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2173:
1.69 deraadt 2174: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2175:
1.113 naddy 2176: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2177: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2178: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2179: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2180:
2181: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2182: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2183: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2184:
1.113 naddy 2185: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2186: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2187: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2188: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2189: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2190:
1.69 deraadt 2191: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2192:
1.113 naddy 2193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2194: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2195: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2196: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2197: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2198: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2199:
2200: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2201: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2202: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2203: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2204: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2205: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2206:
2207: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2208:
1.113 naddy 2209: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2210: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2211: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2212:
1.69 deraadt 2213: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2214: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2215: <p>
1.112 naddy 2216:
1.113 naddy 2217: </dl>
2218: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2219:
1.113 naddy 2220: <hr>
2221: <a name=se></a>
2222: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2223:
1.200 niklas 2224: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2225:
2226: <dl>
2227: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2228: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2229: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2230:
2231: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2232: <p>
2233:
2234: </dl>
2235:
2236: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2237:
2238: <dl>
2239: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2240: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2241: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2242:
2243: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2244: <p>
2245:
2246: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2247: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2248: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2249:
2250: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2251: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2252: <p>
2253:
2254: </dl>
2255:
2256: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2257:
2258: <dl>
2259: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2260: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2261: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2262:
2263: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2264: <p>
2265:
2266: </dl>
2267:
1.102 niklas 2268: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2269:
1.113 naddy 2270: <dl>
2271: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2272: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2273: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2274:
2275: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2276: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2277: <p>
1.102 niklas 2278:
1.113 naddy 2279: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2280:
1.84 niklas 2281: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2282:
1.113 naddy 2283: <dl>
2284: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2285: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2286: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2287:
2288: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2289: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2290: <p>
1.84 niklas 2291:
1.113 naddy 2292: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2293:
1.69 deraadt 2294: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2295:
1.113 naddy 2296: <dl>
2297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2298: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2299: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2300:
1.222 miod 2301: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2302: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2303: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2304: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2305:
1.113 naddy 2306: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2307: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2308: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2309: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2310: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2311:
1.20 louis 2312: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2313: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2314: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2315: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2316: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2317:
1.113 naddy 2318: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2319:
1.113 naddy 2320: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2321: <a name=fi></a>
2322: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2323:
2324: <dl>
2325:
2326: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2327:
2328: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2329: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2330: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2331:
2332: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2333: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2334: </dl>
2335:
2336: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2337: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2338:
1.113 naddy 2339: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2340:
1.113 naddy 2341: <dl>
1.20 louis 2342:
1.170 louis 2343: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2344:
2345: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2346: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2347: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2348: </strong></font><br>
2349:
2350: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2351: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2352: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2353: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2354: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2355: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2356: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2357: <p>
2358:
1.69 deraadt 2359: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2360:
1.113 naddy 2361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2362: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2363: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2364: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2365:
2366: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2367: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2368: translating and reprinting articles from
2369: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2370: <p>
1.112 naddy 2371:
1.113 naddy 2372: </dl>
1.20 louis 2373:
1.113 naddy 2374: <hr>
2375: <a name=de></a>
2376: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2377: <dl>
1.50 louis 2378:
1.151 louis 2379: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2380:
2381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2382: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2383: </strong></font><br>
2384:
2385: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2386: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2387: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2388: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2389: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2390:
2391: <p>
2392:
1.72 louis 2393: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2394:
1.113 naddy 2395: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2396: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2397: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2398: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2399:
1.101 jufi 2400: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2401: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2402: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2403: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2404: Giving way to
2405: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2406: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2407: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2408: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2409: <p>
1.72 louis 2410:
1.69 deraadt 2411: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2412:
1.113 naddy 2413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2414: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2415: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2416: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2417:
2418: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2419: <p>
2420: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2421:
1.50 louis 2422:
1.113 naddy 2423: <hr>
2424: <a name=ru></a>
2425: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2426: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2427:
1.69 deraadt 2428: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2429:
1.113 naddy 2430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2431: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2432: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2433: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2434:
2435: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2436: <p>
1.62 form 2437:
1.69 deraadt 2438: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2439:
1.113 naddy 2440: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2441: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2442: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2443: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2444:
1.59 form 2445: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2446: <p>
1.112 naddy 2447:
1.113 naddy 2448: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2449:
1.113 naddy 2450: <hr>
2451: <a name=pl></a>
2452: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2453: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2454:
1.113 naddy 2455: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2456: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2457: Radio, August 2, 2000
2458: </strong></font><br>
2459:
2460: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2461: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2462: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2463: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2464: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2465: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2466: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2467: <p>
2468:
2469: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2470: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2471: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2472: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2473: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2474:
2475: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2476: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2477: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2478: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2479: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2480: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2481: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2482: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2483: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2484: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2485: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2486: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2487: <p>
2488: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2489:
1.113 naddy 2490: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2491: <a name=es></a>
2492: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2493: <dl>
2494:
2495: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2496:
2497: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2498: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2499: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2500: </strong></font><br>
2501:
2502: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2503: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2504: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2505: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2506: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2507: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2508: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2509: <p>
2510: </dl>
2511:
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