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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>
1.229 ! jufi 37: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
! 38: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 20002
! 39: </strong></font><br>
! 40: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
! 41: using IPFilter.
! 42:
! 43: <p>
! 44:
! 45: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 46: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
! 47: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
! 48: </strong></font><br>
! 49: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
! 50: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
! 51: perspectives of the four OS.
! 52: <br>
! 53: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
! 54: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPSec or Kerberos.
! 55: <p>
! 56:
! 57: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.228 horacio 58: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
59: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
60: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
61: </strong></font><br>
62:
63: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
64: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
65: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
66: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
67: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
68: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
69: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
70: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
71: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
72: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
73: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
74: security conscious team beyond doubt.
75: <p>
76:
1.225 horacio 77: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
78:
79: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
80: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
81: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 82: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 83: </strong></font><br>
84:
85: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
86: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
87: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
88: SysV sistems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
89: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
90: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
91: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
92: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
93: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
94: services provider bussiness ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
95: of choice.
96: <p>
97:
98: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
99:
100: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
101: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
102: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
103: </strong></font><br>
104:
105: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
106: <p>
107:
1.226 horacio 108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
109: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
110: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, January 18, 2001
111: </strong></font><br>
112:
113: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
114: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
115: <p>
1.225 horacio 116:
1.218 horacio 117: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
118:
119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 120: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
121: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
122: </strong></font><br>
123:
124: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
125: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
126: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
127: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
128: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
129: subjects. Worth a read.
130: <p>
131:
132:
133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.218 horacio 134: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 135: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 136: </strong></font><br>
137:
138: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
139: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
140: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
141: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
142: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
143: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
144: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
145: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
146: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 147: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 148: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
149: on other operating systems.<br>
150: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
151: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
152: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
153: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
154: <p>
155:
1.221 horacio 156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 157: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
158: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
159: </strong></font><br>
160:
161: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
162: covering the level of software integration into the core
163: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
164: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
165: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
166: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
167: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
168: <p>
169:
170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.221 horacio 171: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
172: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
173: </strong></font><br>
174:
175: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
176: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
177: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
178: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
179: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
180: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
181: <p>
182:
1.210 jufi 183: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 184:
1.210 jufi 185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 186: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
187: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
188: </strong></font><br>
189:
190: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
191: source software in response to an article which claimed that
192: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
193: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
194: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
195: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
196: <p>
197:
198: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 horacio 199: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 200: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
201: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 202:
1.224 horacio 203: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
204: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
205: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
206: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
207: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
208: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 209: <p>
210:
211: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
212:
213: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 214: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
215: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
216: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
217: </strong></font><br>
218:
219: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
220: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
221: which was deployed, according to the NAS announcement, to
222: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
223: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
224: investment</em>.<br>
225: The implementation details can be seen on their
226: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
227: <p>
228:
229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 230: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
231: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
232: </strong></font><br>
233:
234: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
235: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
236: security and says that even secured operating systems running
237: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
238: to time.<br>
239: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
240: system and just the most secure system.
241: <p>
242:
243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
244: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
245: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
246: </strong></font><br>
247:
248: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
249: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
250: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
251: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
252: choice:<br>
253: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
254: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
255: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
256: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
257: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
258: network security devices and as such must be well
259: armored."</em><br>
260: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
261: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
262: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
263: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
264: <br>
265: Bravo!
266: <p>
1.210 jufi 267:
1.207 ian 268: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 269:
1.207 ian 270: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
271: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
272: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
273: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 274:
1.207 ian 275: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
276: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 277: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 278: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
279: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
280: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 281: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 282: <p>
1.207 ian 283:
1.194 jufi 284: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
285:
286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 287: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
288: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
289: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 290:
1.213 horacio 291: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
292: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
293: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
294: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
295: <p>
296:
297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 298: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 299: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
300: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
301: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 302:
1.201 horacio 303: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 304: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 305: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
306: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
307: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 308: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 309: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
310: <br>
311: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
312: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
313: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
314: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 318: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
319: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 320: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 321: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 322:
1.194 jufi 323: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
324: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
325: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
326: <br>
327: The new
328: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 329: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 330: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
331: <p>
1.194 jufi 332:
1.190 horacio 333: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
334:
335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 336:
337: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
338: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
339:
340: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
341: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
342:
343: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
344: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
345:
1.212 horacio 346: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
347: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 348: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
349:
1.211 horacio 350: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
351: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 352: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
353:
354: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
355: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
356:
357: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
358: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
359:
1.212 horacio 360: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
361: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 362: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
363:
364: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
365: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
366:
367: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
368: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
369:
370: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
371: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
372:
373: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 374: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 375:
1.192 jufi 376: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
377: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 378: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 379:
1.193 deraadt 380: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
381: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 382: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 383:
1.196 deraadt 384: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
385: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
386:
1.198 pvalchev 387: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
388: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
389: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
390:
1.213 horacio 391: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
392: 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>,
393: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
394:
1.190 horacio 395: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 396: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
397: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
398: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
399: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
400: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
401: <p>
1.190 horacio 402:
1.191 jufi 403: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 404: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
405: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
406: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 407: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 408:
1.195 jufi 409: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 410: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
411: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
412: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 413: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
414: <p>
415:
416: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 417: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 418: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
419: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
420: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 421:
1.191 jufi 422: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
423: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
424: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
425: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 426: <p>
427:
1.191 jufi 428:
1.186 jufi 429: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 430:
1.186 jufi 431: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
432: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 433: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
434: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 435: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 436:
1.188 jufi 437: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 438: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 439: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 440: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
441: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 442: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 443: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 444: <p>
445:
1.191 jufi 446:
447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 448: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
449: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
450: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 451: </strong></font><br>
452:
453: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
454: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
455: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
456: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
457: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
458: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
459: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
460: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
461: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
462: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
463: familiar?
464: <p>
465:
1.178 louis 466: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
467:
468: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 469: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
470: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 471: </strong></font><br>
472:
473: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
474: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
475: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
476: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
477: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
478: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
479: <p>
480:
1.179 louis 481: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
482: <a
1.182 louis 483: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
484: </strong></font><br>
485:
486: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
487: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
488: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
489: <p>
490:
491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
492: <a
1.179 louis 493: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
494: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
495: </strong></font><br>
496:
497: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
498: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
499: <p>
500:
1.174 louis 501:
1.175 louis 502: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
503:
504: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
505: <a
1.179 louis 506: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
507: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
508: </strong></font><br>
509:
510: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
511: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
512: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
513: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
514: <p>
515:
516: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
517: <a
1.183 ian 518: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 519: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
520: </strong></font><br>
521:
522: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 523: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 524: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
525: <p>
526:
1.176 louis 527:
1.172 mickey 528: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
529:
530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 531: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 532: </strong></font><br>
533:
534: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
535: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
536: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 537: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 538: <p>
539:
540: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
541: <a
1.174 louis 542: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
543: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
544: </strong></font><br>
545:
546: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
547: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
548: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
549: <p>
550:
551: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
552: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
553: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
554: </strong></font><br>
555:
556: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
557: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
561: <a
562: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
563: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
564: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
565: </strong></font><br>
566:
567: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
568: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
569: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
570: our own Theo de Raadt.
571: <p>
572:
573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
574: <a
575: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
576: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
577: </strong></font><br>
578:
579: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
580: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
581: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
582: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
583: shut down.]
584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
587: <a
1.226 horacio 588: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
589: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 590: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 591: </strong></font><br>
592:
593: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
594: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
595: <p>
596:
1.161 louis 597: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
598:
1.175 louis 599: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
600: <a
601: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
602: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
603: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
604: </strong></font><br>
605:
606: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
607: by John Wolley
608: <p>
609:
610: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
611: <a
612: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
613: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
614: </strong></font><br>
615:
616: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
617: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
618: OpenBSD).
619: <p>
620:
1.161 louis 621: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
622: <a
1.171 louis 623: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
624: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
625: </strong></font><br>
626:
627: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
628: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
629: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
630: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
631: and hindsight.
632: <p>
633:
634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 635: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
636: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
640: <p>
641:
642: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 643: <a
1.168 provos 644: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
645: December 7, 2000
646: </strong></font><br>
647:
648: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
649: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
650: us explain.
651: <p>
652:
653: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 654: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 655: <u>System and Network Security - Kernel Options</u>,
1.211 horacio 656: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 657: December 6, 2000
658: </strong></font><br>
659:
660: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
661: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
662: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
663: <p>
664:
665: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
666: <a
1.226 horacio 667: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
668: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 669: </strong></font><br>
670:
671: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 672: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 673: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 674: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
675: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
676: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 677: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 678: <p>
1.162 millert 679:
680: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
681: <a
1.161 louis 682: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
683: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
684: </strong></font><br>
685:
686: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
687: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
688: <p>
689:
1.169 louis 690: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 691: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
692: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
693: </strong></font><br>
694:
695: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
696: <p>
697:
698:
699: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.169 louis 700: <a
1.226 horacio 701: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
702: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
703: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 704: </strong></font><br>
705:
706: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
707: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
708: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
709: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
710: <p>
711:
1.158 louis 712: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 713:
714: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 715: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
716: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 717: </strong></font><br>
718:
719: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
720: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
721: <p>
722:
723: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 724: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
725: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
726: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 727: </strong></font><br>
728: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
729: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
733: <a
734: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
735: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
736: </strong></font><br>
737:
738: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
739: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
740: <p>
741:
742: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 743: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 744: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
745: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 746:
1.213 horacio 747: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 748: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
749: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
750: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
751: <p>
1.215 horacio 752:
1.174 louis 753: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
754: <a
755: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
756: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
757: </strong></font><br>
758:
759: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
760: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
761: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
762: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
763: much of the attitude too).
764: <p>
1.161 louis 765:
766: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 767: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 768: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 769: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 770:
1.157 louis 771: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
772: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
773: <p>
774:
775: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
776:
777: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 778: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 779: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 780: </strong></font><br>
781:
782: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
783: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
784: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
785: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
786: <p>
787:
788: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
789: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
790: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
791: </strong></font><br>
792:
793: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
794: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
795: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
796: it because they love coding...
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
800: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
801: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
802: </strong></font><br>
803:
804: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
805: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
806: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
807: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
808: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
809: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
810: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
811: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
812: <p>
813:
814: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 815: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
816: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
817: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 818: </strong></font><br>
819:
820: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
821: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
822: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
823: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
824: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
825: the pizza.
826: <p>
827:
828: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 829: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
830: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
831: </strong></font><br>
832:
833: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
834: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
835: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
836: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
837: problems.
838: <p>
839:
840: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 841: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
842: </strong></font><br>
843:
1.222 miod 844: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 845: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
846: - whether they like it or not.
847: <p>
848:
849: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 850: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
851: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 852: </strong></font><br>
853:
854: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
855: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
856: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 857: <p>
1.148 aaron 858:
859: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 860: <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 861: </strong></font><br>
862:
863: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
864: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
865: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
866: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
867: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
868: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
869: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
870: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
871: <p>
872:
873: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 874: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
875: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 876: </strong></font><br>
877:
878: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
879: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
880: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
881: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
882: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
883: <p>
884:
1.138 louis 885: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
886:
887: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 888: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
889: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
890: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
891: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 892: </strong></font><br>
893:
1.227 horacio 894: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 895: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
896: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
897: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
898: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
899: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
900: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
901: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 902: <p>
903:
904: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 905: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.h
906: tml">
907: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 908: </strong></font><br>
909:
910: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
911: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
912: groups, and even Linux.
913: <p>
914:
915: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 916: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
917: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 918: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
919: </strong></font><br>
920:
921: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
922: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
923: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
924: library after installing the OS.
925: <p>
926:
927: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 928: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 929: Sys Admin, September 2000
930: </strong></font><br>
931:
932: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
933: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
934: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
935: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
936: (<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>,
937: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
938: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
939: <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 940: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 941: out of the system.
942: <p>
943:
1.144 louis 944: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
945: <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
946: </strong></font><br>
947:
948: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 949: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
950: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
951: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
952: the IP filtering and address translation.
953: <p>
954:
1.131 louis 955: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
956:
957: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 958: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
959: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
960: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 961: </strong></font><br>
962:
963: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
964: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
965: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
966: <p>
967:
968: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 969: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
970: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
971: </strong></font><br>
972:
973: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
974: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
975: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
976: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
977: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
978: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
979: note of"</i>.
980: <p>
981:
982: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 983: <a
984: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
985: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
986: </strong></font><br>
987:
988: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
989: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
990: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
991: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
992: <p>
993:
994: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 995: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 996: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
997: </strong></font><br>
998:
999: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1000: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1001: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1002: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1003: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1004: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1005: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1006: <p>
1007:
1008: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 1009: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1010: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1011: 2000
1012: </strong></font><br>
1013:
1014: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1015: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1016: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1017: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1018: against current industry practices.
1019: <p>
1020:
1021: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 1022: <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
1023: </strong></font><br>
1024:
1025: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1026: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1027: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1028: <p>
1029:
1030: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 1031: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1032: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1033: </strong></font><br>
1034:
1035: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1036: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1037: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1038: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1039: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1040: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1041: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1042: <p>
1043:
1044: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 1045: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1046: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1047: </strong></font><br>
1048:
1049: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1050: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1051: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1052: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1053: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1054: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1055: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1056: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1057: <p>
1058:
1.118 louis 1059: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1060:
1061: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1062: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1063: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1064: </strong></font><br>
1065:
1066: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1067: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1068: about time. The article mentions that
1069: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1070: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1071: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1072: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1073: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1074: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1075: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1076: <p>
1077:
1078: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1079: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1080: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1081: </strong></font><br>
1082:
1083: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1084: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1085: of OpenSSH.
1086: <p>
1087:
1088: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1089: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1090: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1091: </strong></font><br>
1092:
1093: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1094: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1095: bridging.
1096: <p>
1097:
1098: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1099: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1100: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1101: </strong></font><br>
1102:
1.121 deraadt 1103: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1104: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1105: <p>
1106:
1107: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1108: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1109: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1110: </strong></font><br>
1111:
1112: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1113: <p>
1114:
1115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 1116: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1117: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1118: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1119: </strong></font><br>
1120:
1.120 deraadt 1121: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1122: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1123: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1124: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1125: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1126: <p>
1127:
1128: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 1129: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1130: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1131: </strong></font><br>
1132:
1.222 miod 1133: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1134: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1135: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1136: protocols and their quirks.
1137: <p>
1138:
1139: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1140: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1141: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1142: </strong></font><br>
1143:
1144: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1145: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1146: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1147: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1148: <p>
1149:
1150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 1151: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1152: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1153: </strong></font><br>
1154:
1155: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1156: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1157: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1158: <p>
1159:
1160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1161: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1162: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1163: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1164: </strong></font><br>
1165:
1166: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1167: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1168: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1169: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1170: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1171: <p>
1172:
1.104 louis 1173: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1174:
1.113 naddy 1175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1176: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1177: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1178: </strong></font><br>
1179:
1180: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1181: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1182: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1183: be a bit dry.
1184: <p>
1185:
1186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1187: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1188: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1189: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1190: </strong></font><br>
1191: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1192: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1193: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1194: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1195: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1196: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1197: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1198: <p>
1199:
1200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1201: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1202: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1203: 2000
1.128 louis 1204: </strong></font><br>
1205:
1206: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1207: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1208: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1209: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1210: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1211: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1212: <p>
1213:
1214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1215: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1216: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1217: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1218:
1219: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1220: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1221: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1222: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1223: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1224: <p>
1.110 louis 1225:
1.117 louis 1226: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1227: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1228: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1229: </strong></font><br>
1230:
1231: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1232: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1233: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1234: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1235: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1236: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1237: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1238: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1239: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1240: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.113 naddy 1243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1244: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1245: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1246:
1247: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1248: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1249: <p>
1.108 louis 1250:
1.113 naddy 1251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1252: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1253: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1254: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1255:
1256: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1257: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1258: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1259: <p>
1.106 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1262: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1263: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1264: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1265:
1266: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1267: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1268: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1269: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1270: <p>
1.107 louis 1271:
1.113 naddy 1272: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1273: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1274: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1275: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1276:
1277: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1278: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1279: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1280: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1281: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1282: <p>
1.105 louis 1283:
1.113 naddy 1284: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1285: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1286: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1287: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1288:
1.113 naddy 1289: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1290: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1291: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1292: <p>
1.104 louis 1293:
1.121 deraadt 1294: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1295: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1296: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1297: </strong></font><br>
1298:
1299: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1300: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1301: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1302: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1303: <p>
1304:
1.85 louis 1305: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1306:
1.113 naddy 1307: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1308: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1309: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1310: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1311:
1312: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1313: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1314: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1315: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1316: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1317: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1318: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1319: <p>
1.99 louis 1320:
1.113 naddy 1321: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1322: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1323: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1324: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1325:
1326: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1327: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1328: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1329: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1330: <p>
1.100 louis 1331:
1.113 naddy 1332: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1333: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1334: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1335: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1336:
1337: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1338: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1339: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1340: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1341: <p>
1.95 louis 1342:
1.113 naddy 1343: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1344: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1345: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1346: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1347:
1348: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1349: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1350: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1351: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1352: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1353: <p>
1.92 louis 1354:
1.113 naddy 1355: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1356: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1357: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1358: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1359:
1360: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1361: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1362: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1363: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1364: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1365: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1366: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1367: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1368: <p>
1.91 louis 1369:
1.113 naddy 1370: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1371: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1372: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1373: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1374:
1375: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1376: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1377: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1378: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1379: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1380: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1381: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1382: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1383: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1384: <p>
1.90 louis 1385:
1.113 naddy 1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1387: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1388: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1389: </strong></font><br>
1390: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1391: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1392: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1393: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1394: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1395: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1396: <p>
1397:
1398: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1399: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1400: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1401: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1402:
1.113 naddy 1403: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1404: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1405: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1406: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1407: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1408: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1409: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1410: <p>
1.87 louis 1411:
1.113 naddy 1412: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1413: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1414: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1415: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1416:
1417: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1418: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1419: <p>
1.85 louis 1420:
1.113 naddy 1421: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1422: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1423: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1424: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1425:
1426: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1427: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1428: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1429: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1430: <p>
1.89 louis 1431:
1.113 naddy 1432: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1433: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1434: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1435: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1436:
1437: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1438: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1439: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1440: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1441: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1442:
1.78 deraadt 1443: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1444:
1.113 naddy 1445: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1446: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1447: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1448: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1449: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1450:
1451: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1452: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1453: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1454: <p>
1.83 louis 1455:
1.113 naddy 1456: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1457: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1458: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1459: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1460:
1461: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1462: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1463: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1464: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1465: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1466: <p>
1.93 louis 1467:
1.113 naddy 1468: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1469: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1470: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1471: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1472: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1473:
1.83 louis 1474: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1475: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1476: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1477: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1478: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1479: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1480: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1481: <p>
1.82 aaron 1482:
1.113 naddy 1483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1484: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1485: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1486: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1487:
1.83 louis 1488: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1489: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1490: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1491: <p>
1.80 louis 1492:
1.113 naddy 1493: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1494: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1495: Bad Press</a>,
1496: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1497: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1498:
1499: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1500: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1501: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1502: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1503: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1504: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1505:
1506: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1507:
1.113 naddy 1508: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1509: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1510: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1511: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1512: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1513:
1514: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1515: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1516: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1517: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1518: <p>
1.74 louis 1519:
1.113 naddy 1520: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1521: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1522: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1523: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1524:
1.219 horacio 1525: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1526: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1527: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1528: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1529: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1530: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1531: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1532: <p>
1.88 louis 1533:
1.113 naddy 1534: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1535: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1536: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1537: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1538:
1539: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1540: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1541: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1542: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1543: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1544: <p>
1.81 louis 1545:
1.113 naddy 1546: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1547: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1548: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1549: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1550:
1551: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1552: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1553: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1554: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1555: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1556: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1557: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1558: <p>
1.90 louis 1559:
1.113 naddy 1560: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1561: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1562: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1563: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1564:
1565: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1566: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1567: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1568: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1569: <p>
1.71 louis 1570:
1.69 deraadt 1571: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1572:
1.113 naddy 1573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1574: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1575: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1576: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1577:
1578: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1579: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1580: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1581: <p>
1.70 louis 1582:
1.113 naddy 1583: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1584: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1585: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1587:
1588: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1589: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1590: <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 1591: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1592: <p>
1.68 louis 1593:
1.113 naddy 1594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1595: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1596: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1597: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1598: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1599:
1.111 jufi 1600: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1601: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1602: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1603: "secure by default" installation.
1604: <p>
1.64 louis 1605:
1.113 naddy 1606: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1607: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1608: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1609: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1610:
1.113 naddy 1611: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1612: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1613: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1614: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1615: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1616: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1617: <p>
1.66 louis 1618:
1.113 naddy 1619: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1620: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1621: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1622: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1623:
1624: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1625: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1626: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1627: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1628: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1629: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1630: <p>
1.83 louis 1631:
1.113 naddy 1632: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1633: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1634: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1636:
1637: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1638: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1639: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1640: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1641: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1642: <p>
1.64 louis 1643:
1.113 naddy 1644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1645: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1646: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1647: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1648:
1649: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1650: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1651: <p>
1.65 louis 1652:
1.69 deraadt 1653: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1654:
1.113 naddy 1655: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1656: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1657: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1658: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1659:
1660: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1661: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1662: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1663: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1664: <p>
1.88 louis 1665:
1.113 naddy 1666: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1667: <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 1668: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1669:
1670: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1671: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1672: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1673: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1674: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1675: <p>
1.60 louis 1676:
1.113 naddy 1677: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1678: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1679: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1680: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1681: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1682:
1683: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1684: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1685: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1686: <p>
1.58 louis 1687:
1.113 naddy 1688: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1689: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1690: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1691:
1692: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1693: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1694: <p>
1.53 louis 1695:
1.113 naddy 1696: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1697: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1698: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1699: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1700:
1701: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1702: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1703: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1704: <p>
1.99 louis 1705:
1.113 naddy 1706: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1707: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1708: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1709:
1710: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1711: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1712: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1713: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1714: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1715:
1.113 naddy 1716: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1717: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1718: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1719: </strong></font><br>
1720:
1721: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1722: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1723: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1724: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1725: <p>
1726:
1727: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1728: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1729: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1730: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1731:
1732: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1733: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1734: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1735:
1.113 naddy 1736: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1737: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1738: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1739:
1740: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1741: in
1.113 naddy 1742: <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 1743: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1744: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1745: <p>
1.53 louis 1746:
1.113 naddy 1747: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1748: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1749: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1750: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1751: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1752:
1.58 louis 1753: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1754: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1755:
1.69 deraadt 1756: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1757:
1.113 naddy 1758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1759: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1760: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1761: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1762: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1763:
1.58 louis 1764: Kurt Seifried
1765: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1766: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1767: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1768: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1769:
1.113 naddy 1770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1771: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1772: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1774:
1775: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1776: <p>
1.96 louis 1777:
1.113 naddy 1778: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1779: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1780: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1781: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1782:
1783: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1784: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1785: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1786: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1787: <p>
1.86 louis 1788:
1.69 deraadt 1789: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1790:
1.113 naddy 1791: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1792: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1793: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1794: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1795:
1796: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1797: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1798: <p>
1.61 louis 1799:
1.113 naddy 1800: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1801: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1802: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1803: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1804: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1805:
1806: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1807: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1808: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1809: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1810: right -- or at least strives to".
1811: <p>
1.48 louis 1812:
1.113 naddy 1813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1814: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1815: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1816: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1817: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1818: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1819: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1820: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1821: <p>
1.61 louis 1822:
1.113 naddy 1823: <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 1824: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1825: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1826:
1827: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1828: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1829: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1830: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1831: <p>
1.46 louis 1832:
1.113 naddy 1833: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 1834: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
1835: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1836: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1837:
1838: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1839: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1840: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1841:
1.113 naddy 1842: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1843: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1844: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1845: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1846:
1847: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1848: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1849: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1850: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1851: <p>
1.70 louis 1852:
1.69 deraadt 1853: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1854:
1.211 horacio 1855: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1856: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1857: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1858: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1859: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1860:
1861: Kurt Seifried
1862: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1863: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1864: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1865: <p>
1.44 philen 1866:
1.113 naddy 1867: <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 1868: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1869: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1870:
1871: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1872: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1873:
1.113 naddy 1874: <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 1875: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1877:
1878: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1879: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1880:
1.113 naddy 1881: <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 1882: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1883: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1884:
1885: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1886: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1887: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1888: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1889: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1890:
1.113 naddy 1891: <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 1892: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1893: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1894:
1.36 louis 1895: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1896: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1897:
1.113 naddy 1898: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1899: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1900: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1901: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1902:
1903: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1904: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1905:
1.69 deraadt 1906: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1907:
1.113 naddy 1908: <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 1909: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1910: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1911:
1912: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1913: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1914: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1915:
1.113 naddy 1916: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1917: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1918: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1919: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1920:
1921: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1922: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1923: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1924: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1925: <blockquote>
1926: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1927: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1928: <br>
1929: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1930: </code>
1931: </blockquote>
1932: <p>
1933:
1934: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1935: <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>
1936: <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
1937: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1938:
1939: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1940: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1941: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1942: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1943:
1.113 naddy 1944: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1945: <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 1946: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1947:
1948: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1949: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1950: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1951: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1952: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1953: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1954: <p>
1.19 louis 1955:
1.113 naddy 1956: <li><strong>
1957: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1958: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1959:
1960: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1961: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1962: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1963: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1964: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1965: <p>
1.16 louis 1966:
1.113 naddy 1967: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1968: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1969: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1970: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1971:
1.57 louis 1972: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1973: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1974: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1975: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1976:
1.113 naddy 1977: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1978: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1979: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1980: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1981:
1.113 naddy 1982: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1983:
1.113 naddy 1984: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1985: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
1986: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1987: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1988:
1.23 louis 1989: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1990: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1991: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1992: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1993: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1994: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1995:
1.113 naddy 1996: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1997: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1998: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1999: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2000:
1.199 pvalchev 2001: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2002: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2003: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2004: installation.
1.113 naddy 2005: <p>
1.47 louis 2006:
1.113 naddy 2007: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2008: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2009: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2010: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2011:
2012: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2013: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 2014:
1.69 deraadt 2015: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
2016:
1.113 naddy 2017: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2018: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2019: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2020: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2021:
2022: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2023: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2024: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2025: <p>
1.12 louis 2026:
1.113 naddy 2027: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2028: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2029: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2030: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2031:
2032: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2033: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2034: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2035: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2036: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2037: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2038: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2039: <p>
1.8 deraadt 2040:
1.69 deraadt 2041: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 2042:
1.113 naddy 2043: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2044: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2045: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2046:
2047: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2048: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2049: available."
1.113 naddy 2050: <p>
1.6 deraadt 2051:
1.69 deraadt 2052: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
2053:
1.113 naddy 2054: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 2055: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2056: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2057:
2058: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2059: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2060: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2061: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2062: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2063: <p>
1.33 louis 2064:
1.113 naddy 2065: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2066: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2067: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2068: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2069:
1.113 naddy 2070: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2071: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2072: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2073: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2074: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2075: <p>
1.57 louis 2076:
1.69 deraadt 2077: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
2078:
1.113 naddy 2079: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2080: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2081: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2082: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2083:
2084: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2085: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2086: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2087:
1.113 naddy 2088: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 2089: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2090: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2091: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2092: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2093:
2094: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2095: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2096:
1.113 naddy 2097: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2098: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2099:
1.113 naddy 2100: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2101:
1.113 naddy 2102: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 2103: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2104: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2105: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2106:
2107: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2108: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 2109:
1.69 deraadt 2110: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
2111:
1.113 naddy 2112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2113: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2114: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2115:
2116: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2117: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2118: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2119:
1.113 naddy 2120: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2121: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2122: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2123: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2124:
2125: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2126: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2127: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2128: site.<p>
1.57 louis 2129:
1.69 deraadt 2130: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
2131:
1.113 naddy 2132: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 2133: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2134: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2135: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2136:
2137: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2138: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2139: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2140: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2141: <p>
1.15 louis 2142:
1.113 naddy 2143: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2144: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2145: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2146: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2147:
2148: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2149: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2150: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2151: columns."
1.113 naddy 2152: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2153:
1.69 deraadt 2154: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2155:
1.113 naddy 2156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2157: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2158: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2159: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2160:
2161: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2162: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2163:
1.113 naddy 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2165: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2166: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2167:
2168: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2169: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2170: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2171:
1.69 deraadt 2172: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2173:
1.113 naddy 2174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2175: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2176: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2177: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2178:
1.222 miod 2179: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2180: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2181: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2182: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2183: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2184:
1.69 deraadt 2185: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2186:
1.113 naddy 2187: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2188: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2189: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2190:
1.69 deraadt 2191: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2192: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2193: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2194:
1.69 deraadt 2195: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2196:
1.113 naddy 2197: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2198: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2199: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2200: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2201:
2202: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2203: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2204: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2205:
1.113 naddy 2206: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2207: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2208: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2209: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2210: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2211:
1.69 deraadt 2212: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2213:
1.113 naddy 2214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2215: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2216: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2217: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2218: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2219: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2220:
2221: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2222: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2223: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2224: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2225: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2226: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2227:
2228: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2229:
1.113 naddy 2230: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2231: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2232: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2233:
1.69 deraadt 2234: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2235: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2236: <p>
1.112 naddy 2237:
1.113 naddy 2238: </dl>
2239: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2240:
1.113 naddy 2241: <hr>
2242: <a name=se></a>
2243: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2244:
1.200 niklas 2245: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2246:
2247: <dl>
2248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2249: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2250: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2251:
2252: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2253: <p>
2254:
2255: </dl>
2256:
2257: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2258:
2259: <dl>
2260: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2261: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2262: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2263:
2264: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2265: <p>
2266:
2267: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2268: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2269: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2270:
2271: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2272: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2273: <p>
2274:
2275: </dl>
2276:
2277: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2278:
2279: <dl>
2280: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2281: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2282: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2283:
2284: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2285: <p>
2286:
2287: </dl>
2288:
1.102 niklas 2289: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2290:
1.113 naddy 2291: <dl>
2292: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2293: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2294: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2295:
2296: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2297: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2298: <p>
1.102 niklas 2299:
1.113 naddy 2300: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2301:
1.84 niklas 2302: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2303:
1.113 naddy 2304: <dl>
2305: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2306: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2307: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2308:
2309: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2310: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2311: <p>
1.84 niklas 2312:
1.113 naddy 2313: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2314:
1.69 deraadt 2315: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2316:
1.113 naddy 2317: <dl>
2318: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2319: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2320: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2321:
1.222 miod 2322: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2323: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2324: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2325: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2326:
1.113 naddy 2327: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2328: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2329: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2330: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2331: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2332:
1.20 louis 2333: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2334: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2335: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2336: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2337: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2338:
1.113 naddy 2339: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2340:
1.113 naddy 2341: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2342: <a name=fi></a>
2343: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2344:
2345: <dl>
2346:
2347: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2348:
2349: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2350: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2351: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2352:
2353: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2354: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2355: </dl>
2356:
2357: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2358: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2359:
1.113 naddy 2360: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2361:
1.113 naddy 2362: <dl>
1.20 louis 2363:
1.170 louis 2364: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2365:
2366: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2367: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2368: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2369: </strong></font><br>
2370:
2371: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2372: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2373: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2374: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2375: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2376: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2377: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2378: <p>
2379:
1.69 deraadt 2380: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2381:
1.113 naddy 2382: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2383: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2384: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2385: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2386:
2387: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2388: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2389: translating and reprinting articles from
2390: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2391: <p>
1.112 naddy 2392:
1.113 naddy 2393: </dl>
1.20 louis 2394:
1.113 naddy 2395: <hr>
2396: <a name=de></a>
2397: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2398: <dl>
1.50 louis 2399:
1.151 louis 2400: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2401:
2402: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2403: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2404: </strong></font><br>
2405:
2406: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2407: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2408: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2409: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2410: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2411:
2412: <p>
2413:
1.72 louis 2414: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2415:
1.113 naddy 2416: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2417: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2418: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2419: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2420:
1.101 jufi 2421: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2422: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2423: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2424: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2425: Giving way to
2426: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2427: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2428: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2429: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2430: <p>
1.72 louis 2431:
1.69 deraadt 2432: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2433:
1.113 naddy 2434: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2435: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2436: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2437: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2438:
2439: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2440: <p>
2441: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2442:
1.50 louis 2443:
1.113 naddy 2444: <hr>
2445: <a name=ru></a>
2446: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2447: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2448:
1.69 deraadt 2449: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2450:
1.113 naddy 2451: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2452: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2453: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2454: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2455:
2456: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2457: <p>
1.62 form 2458:
1.69 deraadt 2459: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2460:
1.113 naddy 2461: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2462: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2463: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2464: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2465:
1.59 form 2466: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2467: <p>
1.112 naddy 2468:
1.113 naddy 2469: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2470:
1.113 naddy 2471: <hr>
2472: <a name=pl></a>
2473: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2474: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2475:
1.113 naddy 2476: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2477: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2478: Radio, August 2, 2000
2479: </strong></font><br>
2480:
2481: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2482: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2483: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2484: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2485: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2486: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2487: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2488: <p>
2489:
2490: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2491: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2492: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2493: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2494: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2495:
2496: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2497: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2498: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2499: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2500: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2501: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2502: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2503: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2504: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2505: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2506: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2507: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2508: <p>
2509: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2510:
1.113 naddy 2511: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2512: <a name=es></a>
2513: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2514: <dl>
2515:
2516: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2517:
2518: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2519: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2520: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522:
2523: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2524: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2525: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2526: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2527: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2528: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2529: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2530: <p>
2531: </dl>
2532:
2533:
2534: <hr>
2535: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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