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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>
1.233 jufi 37: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
38: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
39: </strong></font><br>
40: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
41: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
42: <p>
43:
44: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.232 jufi 45: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
46: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
47: </strong></font><br>
48: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
49: on the desktop of his parents.
50: <p>
51:
52: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.229 jufi 53: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 54: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 55: </strong></font><br>
56: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
57: using IPFilter.
58:
59: <p>
60:
61: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
62: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
63: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
64: </strong></font><br>
65: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
66: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
67: perspectives of the four OS.
68: <br>
69: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
70: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPSec or Kerberos.
71: <p>
72:
73: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.228 horacio 74: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
75: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
76: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
77: </strong></font><br>
78:
79: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
80: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
81: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
82: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
83: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
84: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
85: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
86: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
87: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
88: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
89: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
90: security conscious team beyond doubt.
91: <p>
92:
1.225 horacio 93: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
94:
95: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
96: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
97: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 98: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 99: </strong></font><br>
100:
101: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
102: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
103: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 104: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 105: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
106: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
107: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
108: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
109: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
110: services provider bussiness ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
111: of choice.
112: <p>
113:
114: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
115:
116: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
117: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
118: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
119: </strong></font><br>
120:
121: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
122: <p>
123:
1.226 horacio 124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
125: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
126: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, January 18, 2001
127: </strong></font><br>
128:
129: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
130: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
131: <p>
1.225 horacio 132:
1.218 horacio 133: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
134:
135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 136: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
137: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
138: </strong></font><br>
139:
140: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
141: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
142: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
143: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
144: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
145: subjects. Worth a read.
146: <p>
147:
148:
149: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.218 horacio 150: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 151: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 152: </strong></font><br>
153:
154: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
155: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
156: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
157: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
158: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
159: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
160: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
161: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
162: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 163: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 164: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
165: on other operating systems.<br>
166: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
167: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
168: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
169: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
170: <p>
171:
1.221 horacio 172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 173: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
174: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
175: </strong></font><br>
176:
177: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
178: covering the level of software integration into the core
179: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
180: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
181: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
182: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
183: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
184: <p>
185:
186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.221 horacio 187: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
188: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
189: </strong></font><br>
190:
191: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
192: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
193: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
194: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
195: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
196: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
197: <p>
198:
1.210 jufi 199: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 200:
1.210 jufi 201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 202: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
203: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
204: </strong></font><br>
205:
206: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
207: source software in response to an article which claimed that
208: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
209: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
210: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
211: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 horacio 215: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 216: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
217: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 218:
1.224 horacio 219: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
220: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
221: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
222: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
223: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
224: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 225: <p>
226:
227: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
228:
229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 230: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
231: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
232: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
233: </strong></font><br>
234:
235: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
236: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 237: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 238: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
239: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
240: investment</em>.<br>
241: The implementation details can be seen on their
242: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 246: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
247: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
248: </strong></font><br>
249:
250: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
251: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
252: security and says that even secured operating systems running
253: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
254: to time.<br>
255: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
256: system and just the most secure system.
257: <p>
258:
259: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
260: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
261: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
262: </strong></font><br>
263:
264: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
265: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
266: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
267: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
268: choice:<br>
269: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
270: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
271: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
272: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
273: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
274: network security devices and as such must be well
275: armored."</em><br>
276: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
277: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
278: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
279: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
280: <br>
281: Bravo!
282: <p>
1.210 jufi 283:
1.207 ian 284: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 285:
1.207 ian 286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
287: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
288: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
289: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 290:
1.207 ian 291: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
292: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 293: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 294: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
295: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
296: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 297: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 298: <p>
1.207 ian 299:
1.194 jufi 300: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
301:
302: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 303: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
304: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
305: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 306:
1.213 horacio 307: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
308: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
309: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
310: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
311: <p>
312:
313: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 314: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 315: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
316: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
317: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 318:
1.201 horacio 319: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 320: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 321: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
322: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
323: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 324: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 325: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
326: <br>
327: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
328: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
329: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
330: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
331: <p>
332:
333: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 334: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
335: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 336: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 337: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 338:
1.194 jufi 339: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
340: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
341: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
342: <br>
343: The new
344: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 345: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 346: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
347: <p>
1.194 jufi 348:
1.190 horacio 349: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
350:
351: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 352:
353: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
354: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
355:
356: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
357: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
358:
359: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
360: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
361:
1.212 horacio 362: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
363: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 364: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
365:
1.211 horacio 366: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
367: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 368: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
369:
370: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
371: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
372:
373: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
374: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
375:
1.212 horacio 376: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
377: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 378: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
379:
380: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
381: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
382:
383: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
384: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
385:
386: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
387: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
388:
389: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 390: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 391:
1.192 jufi 392: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
393: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 394: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 395:
1.193 deraadt 396: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
397: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 398: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 399:
1.196 deraadt 400: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
401: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
402:
1.198 pvalchev 403: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
404: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
405: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
406:
1.213 horacio 407: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
408: 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>,
409: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
410:
1.190 horacio 411: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 412: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
413: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
414: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
415: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
416: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
417: <p>
1.190 horacio 418:
1.191 jufi 419: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 420: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
421: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
422: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 423: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 424:
1.195 jufi 425: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 426: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
427: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
428: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 429: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
430: <p>
431:
432: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 433: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 434: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
435: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
436: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 437:
1.191 jufi 438: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
439: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
440: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
441: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 442: <p>
443:
1.191 jufi 444:
1.186 jufi 445: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 446:
1.186 jufi 447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
448: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 449: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
450: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 451: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 452:
1.188 jufi 453: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 454: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 455: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 456: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
457: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 458: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 459: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 460: <p>
461:
1.191 jufi 462:
463: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 464: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
465: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
466: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 467: </strong></font><br>
468:
469: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
470: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
471: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
472: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
473: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
474: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
475: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
476: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
477: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
478: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
479: familiar?
480: <p>
481:
1.178 louis 482: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
483:
484: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 485: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
486: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 487: </strong></font><br>
488:
489: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
490: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
491: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
492: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
493: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
494: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
495: <p>
496:
1.179 louis 497: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
498: <a
1.182 louis 499: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
500: </strong></font><br>
501:
502: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
503: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
504: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
505: <p>
506:
507: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
508: <a
1.179 louis 509: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
510: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
511: </strong></font><br>
512:
513: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
514: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
515: <p>
516:
1.174 louis 517:
1.175 louis 518: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
519:
520: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
521: <a
1.179 louis 522: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
523: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
524: </strong></font><br>
525:
526: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
527: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
528: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
529: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
533: <a
1.183 ian 534: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 535: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
536: </strong></font><br>
537:
538: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 539: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 540: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
541: <p>
542:
1.176 louis 543:
1.172 mickey 544: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
545:
546: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 547: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 548: </strong></font><br>
549:
550: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
551: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
552: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 553: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 554: <p>
555:
556: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
557: <a
1.174 louis 558: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
559: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
560: </strong></font><br>
561:
562: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
563: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
564: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
565: <p>
566:
567: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
568: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
569: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
570: </strong></font><br>
571:
572: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
573: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
574: <p>
575:
576: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
577: <a
578: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
579: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
580: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
581: </strong></font><br>
582:
583: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
584: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
585: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
586: our own Theo de Raadt.
587: <p>
588:
589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
590: <a
591: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
592: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
593: </strong></font><br>
594:
595: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
596: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
597: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
598: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
599: shut down.]
600: <p>
601:
602: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
603: <a
1.226 horacio 604: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
605: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 606: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 607: </strong></font><br>
608:
609: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
610: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
611: <p>
612:
1.161 louis 613: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
614:
1.175 louis 615: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
616: <a
617: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
618: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
619: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
620: </strong></font><br>
621:
622: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
623: by John Wolley
624: <p>
625:
626: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
627: <a
628: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
629: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
630: </strong></font><br>
631:
632: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
633: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
634: OpenBSD).
635: <p>
636:
1.161 louis 637: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
638: <a
1.171 louis 639: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
640: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
641: </strong></font><br>
642:
643: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
644: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
645: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
646: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
647: and hindsight.
648: <p>
649:
650: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 651: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
652: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
653: </strong></font><br>
654:
655: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
656: <p>
657:
658: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 659: <a
1.168 provos 660: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
661: December 7, 2000
662: </strong></font><br>
663:
664: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
665: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
666: us explain.
667: <p>
668:
669: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.234 ! jufi 670: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
! 671: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 672: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 673: December 6, 2000
674: </strong></font><br>
675:
676: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
677: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
678: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
679: <p>
680:
681: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
682: <a
1.226 horacio 683: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
684: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 685: </strong></font><br>
686:
687: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 688: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 689: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 690: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
691: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
692: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 693: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 694: <p>
1.162 millert 695:
696: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
697: <a
1.161 louis 698: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
699: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
700: </strong></font><br>
701:
702: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
703: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
704: <p>
705:
1.169 louis 706: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 707: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
708: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
709: </strong></font><br>
710:
711: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
712: <p>
713:
714:
715: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.169 louis 716: <a
1.226 horacio 717: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
718: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
719: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 720: </strong></font><br>
721:
722: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
723: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
724: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
725: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
726: <p>
727:
1.158 louis 728: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 729:
730: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 731: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
732: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 733: </strong></font><br>
734:
735: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
736: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
737: <p>
738:
739: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 740: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
741: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
742: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 743: </strong></font><br>
744: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
745: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
746: <p>
747:
748: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
749: <a
750: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
751: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
752: </strong></font><br>
753:
754: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
755: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 759: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 760: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
761: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 762:
1.213 horacio 763: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 764: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
765: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
766: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
767: <p>
1.215 horacio 768:
1.174 louis 769: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
770: <a
771: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
772: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
773: </strong></font><br>
774:
775: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
776: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
777: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
778: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
779: much of the attitude too).
780: <p>
1.161 louis 781:
782: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 783: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 784: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 785: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 786:
1.157 louis 787: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
788: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
789: <p>
790:
791: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
792:
793: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 794: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 795: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 796: </strong></font><br>
797:
798: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
799: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
800: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
801: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
802: <p>
803:
804: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
805: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
806: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
807: </strong></font><br>
808:
809: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
810: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
811: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
812: it because they love coding...
813: <p>
814:
815: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
816: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
817: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
818: </strong></font><br>
819:
820: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
821: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
822: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
823: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
824: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
825: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
826: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
827: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
828: <p>
829:
830: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 831: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
832: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
833: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 834: </strong></font><br>
835:
836: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
837: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
838: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
839: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
840: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
841: the pizza.
842: <p>
843:
844: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 845: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
846: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
847: </strong></font><br>
848:
849: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
850: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
851: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
852: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
853: problems.
854: <p>
855:
856: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 857: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
858: </strong></font><br>
859:
1.222 miod 860: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 861: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
862: - whether they like it or not.
863: <p>
864:
865: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 866: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
867: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 868: </strong></font><br>
869:
870: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
871: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
872: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 873: <p>
1.148 aaron 874:
875: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 876: <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 877: </strong></font><br>
878:
879: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
880: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
881: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
882: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
883: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
884: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
885: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
886: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
887: <p>
888:
889: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 890: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
891: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 892: </strong></font><br>
893:
894: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
895: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
896: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
897: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
898: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
899: <p>
900:
1.138 louis 901: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
902:
903: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 904: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
905: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
906: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
907: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 908: </strong></font><br>
909:
1.227 horacio 910: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 911: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
912: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
913: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
914: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
915: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
916: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
917: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.231 jufi 921: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 922: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 923: </strong></font><br>
924:
925: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
926: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
927: groups, and even Linux.
928: <p>
929:
930: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 931: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
932: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 933: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
934: </strong></font><br>
935:
936: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
937: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
938: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
939: library after installing the OS.
940: <p>
941:
942: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 943: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 944: Sys Admin, September 2000
945: </strong></font><br>
946:
947: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
948: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
949: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
950: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
951: (<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>,
952: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
953: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
954: <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 955: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 956: out of the system.
957: <p>
958:
1.144 louis 959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
960: <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
961: </strong></font><br>
962:
963: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 964: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
965: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
966: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
967: the IP filtering and address translation.
968: <p>
969:
1.131 louis 970: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
971:
972: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 973: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
974: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
975: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 976: </strong></font><br>
977:
978: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
979: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
980: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
981: <p>
982:
983: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 984: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
985: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
986: </strong></font><br>
987:
988: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
989: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
990: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
991: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
992: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
993: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
994: note of"</i>.
995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 998: <a
999: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1000: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1001: </strong></font><br>
1002:
1003: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1004: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1005: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1006: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1007: <p>
1008:
1009: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1010: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1011: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1012: </strong></font><br>
1013:
1014: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1015: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1016: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1017: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1018: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1019: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1020: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1021: <p>
1022:
1023: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 1024: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1025: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1026: 2000
1027: </strong></font><br>
1028:
1029: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1030: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1031: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1032: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1033: against current industry practices.
1034: <p>
1035:
1036: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 1037: <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
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039:
1040: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1041: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1042: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 1046: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1047: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1048: </strong></font><br>
1049:
1050: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1051: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1052: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1053: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1054: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1055: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1056: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1057: <p>
1058:
1059: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 1060: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1061: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1062: </strong></font><br>
1063:
1064: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1065: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1066: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1067: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1068: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1069: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1070: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1071: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1072: <p>
1073:
1.118 louis 1074: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1075:
1076: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1077: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1078: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1079: </strong></font><br>
1080:
1081: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1082: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1083: about time. The article mentions that
1084: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1085: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1086: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1087: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1088: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1089: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1090: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1091: <p>
1092:
1093: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1094: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1095: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1096: </strong></font><br>
1097:
1098: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1099: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1100: of OpenSSH.
1101: <p>
1102:
1103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1104: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1105: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1106: </strong></font><br>
1107:
1108: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1109: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1110: bridging.
1111: <p>
1112:
1113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1114: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1115: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1116: </strong></font><br>
1117:
1.121 deraadt 1118: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1119: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1120: <p>
1121:
1122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1123: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1124: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1125: </strong></font><br>
1126:
1127: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1128: <p>
1129:
1130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 1131: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1132: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1133: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1134: </strong></font><br>
1135:
1.120 deraadt 1136: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1137: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1138: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1139: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1140: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1141: <p>
1142:
1143: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 1144: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1145: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1146: </strong></font><br>
1147:
1.222 miod 1148: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1149: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1150: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1151: protocols and their quirks.
1152: <p>
1153:
1154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1155: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1156: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1157: </strong></font><br>
1158:
1159: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1160: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1161: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1162: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1163: <p>
1164:
1165: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 1166: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1167: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1168: </strong></font><br>
1169:
1170: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1171: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1172: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1173: <p>
1174:
1175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1176: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1177: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1178: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1179: </strong></font><br>
1180:
1181: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1182: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1183: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1184: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1185: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1186: <p>
1187:
1.104 louis 1188: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1189:
1.113 naddy 1190: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1191: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1192: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1193: </strong></font><br>
1194:
1195: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1196: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1197: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1198: be a bit dry.
1199: <p>
1200:
1201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1202: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1203: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1204: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1205: </strong></font><br>
1206: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1207: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1208: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1209: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1210: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1211: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1212: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1213: <p>
1214:
1215: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1216: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1217: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1218: 2000
1.128 louis 1219: </strong></font><br>
1220:
1221: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1222: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1223: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1224: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1225: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1226: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1230: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1231: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1232: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1233:
1234: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1235: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1236: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1237: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1238: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1239: <p>
1.110 louis 1240:
1.117 louis 1241: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1242: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1243: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1244: </strong></font><br>
1245:
1246: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1247: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1248: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1249: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1250: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1251: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1252: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1253: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1254: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1255: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1256: <p>
1257:
1.113 naddy 1258: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1259: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1260: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1261:
1262: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1263: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1264: <p>
1.108 louis 1265:
1.113 naddy 1266: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1267: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1268: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1269: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1270:
1271: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1272: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1273: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1274: <p>
1.106 louis 1275:
1.113 naddy 1276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1277: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1278: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1279: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1280:
1281: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1282: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1283: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1284: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1285: <p>
1.107 louis 1286:
1.113 naddy 1287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1288: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1289: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1290: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1291:
1292: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1293: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1294: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1295: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1296: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1297: <p>
1.105 louis 1298:
1.113 naddy 1299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1300: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1301: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1303:
1.113 naddy 1304: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1305: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1306: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1307: <p>
1.104 louis 1308:
1.121 deraadt 1309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1310: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1311: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1312: </strong></font><br>
1313:
1314: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1315: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1316: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1317: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1318: <p>
1319:
1.85 louis 1320: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1321:
1.113 naddy 1322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1323: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1324: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1325: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1326:
1327: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1328: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1329: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1330: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1331: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1332: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1333: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1334: <p>
1.99 louis 1335:
1.113 naddy 1336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1337: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1338: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1339: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1340:
1341: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1342: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1343: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1344: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1345: <p>
1.100 louis 1346:
1.113 naddy 1347: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1348: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1349: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1350: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1351:
1352: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1353: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1354: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1355: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1356: <p>
1.95 louis 1357:
1.113 naddy 1358: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1359: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1360: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1361: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1362:
1363: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1364: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1365: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1366: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1367: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1368: <p>
1.92 louis 1369:
1.113 naddy 1370: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1371: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1372: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1373: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1374:
1375: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1376: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1377: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1378: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1379: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1380: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1381: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1382: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1383: <p>
1.91 louis 1384:
1.113 naddy 1385: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1386: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1387: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1388: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1389:
1390: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1391: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1392: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1393: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1394: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1395: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1396: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1397: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1398: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1399: <p>
1.90 louis 1400:
1.113 naddy 1401: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1402: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1403: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1404: </strong></font><br>
1405: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1406: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1407: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1408: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1409: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1410: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1411: <p>
1412:
1413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1414: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1415: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1416: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1417:
1.113 naddy 1418: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1419: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1420: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1421: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1422: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1423: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1424: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1425: <p>
1.87 louis 1426:
1.113 naddy 1427: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1428: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1429: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1430: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1431:
1432: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1433: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1434: <p>
1.85 louis 1435:
1.113 naddy 1436: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1437: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1438: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1439: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1440:
1441: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1442: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1443: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1444: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1445: <p>
1.89 louis 1446:
1.113 naddy 1447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1448: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1449: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1450: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1451:
1452: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1453: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1454: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1455: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1456: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1457:
1.78 deraadt 1458: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1459:
1.113 naddy 1460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1461: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1462: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1463: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1464: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1465:
1466: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1467: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1468: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1469: <p>
1.83 louis 1470:
1.113 naddy 1471: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1472: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1473: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1474: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1475:
1476: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1477: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1478: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1479: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1480: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1481: <p>
1.93 louis 1482:
1.113 naddy 1483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1484: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1485: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1486: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1487: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1488:
1.83 louis 1489: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1490: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1491: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1492: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1493: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1494: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1495: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1496: <p>
1.82 aaron 1497:
1.113 naddy 1498: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1499: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1500: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1501: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1502:
1.83 louis 1503: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1504: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1505: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1506: <p>
1.80 louis 1507:
1.113 naddy 1508: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1509: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1510: Bad Press</a>,
1511: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1512: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1513:
1514: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1515: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1516: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1517: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1518: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1519: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1520:
1521: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1522:
1.113 naddy 1523: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1524: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1525: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1526: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1527: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1528:
1529: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1530: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1531: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1532: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1533: <p>
1.74 louis 1534:
1.113 naddy 1535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1536: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1537: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1538: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1539:
1.219 horacio 1540: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1541: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1542: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1543: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1544: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1545: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1546: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1547: <p>
1.88 louis 1548:
1.113 naddy 1549: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1550: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1551: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1552: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1553:
1554: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1555: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1556: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1557: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1558: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1559: <p>
1.81 louis 1560:
1.113 naddy 1561: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1562: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1563: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1564: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1565:
1566: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1567: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1568: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1569: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1570: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1571: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1572: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1573: <p>
1.90 louis 1574:
1.113 naddy 1575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1576: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1577: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1578: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1579:
1580: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1581: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1582: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1583: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1584: <p>
1.71 louis 1585:
1.69 deraadt 1586: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1587:
1.113 naddy 1588: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1589: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1590: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1591: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1592:
1593: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1594: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1595: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1596: <p>
1.70 louis 1597:
1.113 naddy 1598: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1599: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1600: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1601: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1602:
1603: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1604: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1605: <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 1606: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1607: <p>
1.68 louis 1608:
1.113 naddy 1609: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1610: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1611: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1612: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1613: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1614:
1.111 jufi 1615: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1616: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1617: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1618: "secure by default" installation.
1619: <p>
1.64 louis 1620:
1.113 naddy 1621: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1622: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1623: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1624: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1625:
1.113 naddy 1626: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1627: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1628: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1629: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1630: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1631: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1632: <p>
1.66 louis 1633:
1.113 naddy 1634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1635: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1636: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1638:
1639: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1640: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1641: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1642: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1643: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1644: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1645: <p>
1.83 louis 1646:
1.113 naddy 1647: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1648: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1649: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1650: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1651:
1652: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1653: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1654: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1655: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1656: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1657: <p>
1.64 louis 1658:
1.113 naddy 1659: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1660: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1661: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1662: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1663:
1664: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1665: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1666: <p>
1.65 louis 1667:
1.69 deraadt 1668: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1669:
1.113 naddy 1670: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1671: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1672: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1673: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1674:
1675: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1676: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1677: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1678: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1679: <p>
1.88 louis 1680:
1.113 naddy 1681: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1682: <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 1683: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1684:
1685: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1686: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1687: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1688: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1689: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1690: <p>
1.60 louis 1691:
1.113 naddy 1692: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1693: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1694: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1695: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1696: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1697:
1698: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1699: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1700: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1701: <p>
1.58 louis 1702:
1.113 naddy 1703: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1704: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1705: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1706:
1707: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1708: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1709: <p>
1.53 louis 1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1712: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1713: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1714: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1715:
1716: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1717: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1718: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1719: <p>
1.99 louis 1720:
1.113 naddy 1721: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1722: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1723: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1724:
1725: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1726: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1727: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1728: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1729: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1730:
1.113 naddy 1731: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1732: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1733: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1734: </strong></font><br>
1735:
1736: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1737: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1738: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1739: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1743: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1744: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1745: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1746:
1747: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1748: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1749: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1750:
1.113 naddy 1751: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1752: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1753: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1754:
1755: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1756: in
1.113 naddy 1757: <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 1758: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1759: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1760: <p>
1.53 louis 1761:
1.113 naddy 1762: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1763: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1764: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1765: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1766: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1767:
1.58 louis 1768: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1769: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1770:
1.69 deraadt 1771: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1772:
1.113 naddy 1773: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1774: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1775: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1776: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1777: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1778:
1.58 louis 1779: Kurt Seifried
1780: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1781: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1782: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1783: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1784:
1.113 naddy 1785: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1786: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1787: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1788: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1789:
1790: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1791: <p>
1.96 louis 1792:
1.113 naddy 1793: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1794: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1795: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1796: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1797:
1798: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1799: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1800: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1801: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1802: <p>
1.86 louis 1803:
1.69 deraadt 1804: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1805:
1.113 naddy 1806: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1807: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1808: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1809: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1810:
1811: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1812: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1813: <p>
1.61 louis 1814:
1.113 naddy 1815: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1816: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1817: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1818: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1819: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1820:
1821: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1822: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1823: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1824: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1825: right -- or at least strives to".
1826: <p>
1.48 louis 1827:
1.113 naddy 1828: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1829: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1830: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1831: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1832: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1833: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1834: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1835: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1836: <p>
1.61 louis 1837:
1.113 naddy 1838: <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 1839: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1840: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1841:
1842: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1843: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1844: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1845: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1846: <p>
1.46 louis 1847:
1.113 naddy 1848: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 1849: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
1850: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1851: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1852:
1853: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1854: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1855: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1856:
1.113 naddy 1857: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1858: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1859: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1860: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1861:
1862: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1863: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1864: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1865: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1866: <p>
1.70 louis 1867:
1.69 deraadt 1868: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1869:
1.211 horacio 1870: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1871: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1872: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1873: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1874: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1875:
1876: Kurt Seifried
1877: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1878: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1879: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1880: <p>
1.44 philen 1881:
1.113 naddy 1882: <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 1883: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1884: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1885:
1886: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1887: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1888:
1.113 naddy 1889: <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 1890: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1891: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1892:
1893: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1894: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1895:
1.113 naddy 1896: <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 1897: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1898: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1899:
1900: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1901: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1902: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1903: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1904: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1905:
1.113 naddy 1906: <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 1907: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1908: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1909:
1.36 louis 1910: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1911: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1912:
1.113 naddy 1913: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1914: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1915: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1916: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1917:
1918: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1919: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1920:
1.69 deraadt 1921: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1922:
1.113 naddy 1923: <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 1924: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1925: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1926:
1927: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1928: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1929: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1930:
1.113 naddy 1931: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1932: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1933: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1934: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1935:
1936: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1937: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1938: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1939: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1940: <blockquote>
1941: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1942: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1943: <br>
1944: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1945: </code>
1946: </blockquote>
1947: <p>
1948:
1949: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1950: <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>
1951: <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
1952: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1953:
1954: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1955: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1956: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1957: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1960: <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 1961: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1962:
1963: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1964: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1965: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1966: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1967: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1968: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1969: <p>
1.19 louis 1970:
1.113 naddy 1971: <li><strong>
1972: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1973: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1974:
1975: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1976: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1977: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1978: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1979: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1980: <p>
1.16 louis 1981:
1.113 naddy 1982: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1983: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1984: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1985: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1986:
1.57 louis 1987: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1988: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1989: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1990: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1991:
1.113 naddy 1992: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1993: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1994: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1995: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1996:
1.113 naddy 1997: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1998:
1.113 naddy 1999: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 2000: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2001: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2002: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2003:
1.23 louis 2004: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2005: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2006: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2007: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2008: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 2009: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2010:
1.113 naddy 2011: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 2012: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2013: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2014: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2015:
1.199 pvalchev 2016: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2017: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2018: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2019: installation.
1.113 naddy 2020: <p>
1.47 louis 2021:
1.113 naddy 2022: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2023: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2024: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2025: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2026:
2027: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2028: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 2029:
1.69 deraadt 2030: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
2031:
1.113 naddy 2032: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2033: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2034: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2035: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2036:
2037: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2038: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2039: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2040: <p>
1.12 louis 2041:
1.113 naddy 2042: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2043: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2044: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2045: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2046:
2047: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2048: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2049: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2050: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2051: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2052: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2053: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.8 deraadt 2055:
1.69 deraadt 2056: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 2057:
1.113 naddy 2058: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2059: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2060: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2061:
2062: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2063: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2064: available."
1.113 naddy 2065: <p>
1.6 deraadt 2066:
1.69 deraadt 2067: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
2068:
1.113 naddy 2069: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 2070: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2071: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2072:
2073: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2074: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2075: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2076: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2077: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2078: <p>
1.33 louis 2079:
1.113 naddy 2080: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2081: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2082: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2083: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2084:
1.113 naddy 2085: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2086: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2087: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2088: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2089: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2090: <p>
1.57 louis 2091:
1.69 deraadt 2092: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
2093:
1.113 naddy 2094: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2095: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2096: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2097: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2098:
2099: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2100: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2101: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2102:
1.113 naddy 2103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 2104: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2105: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2106: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2107: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2108:
2109: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2110: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2111:
1.113 naddy 2112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2113: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2114:
1.113 naddy 2115: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2116:
1.113 naddy 2117: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 2118: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2119: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2120: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2121:
2122: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2123: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 2124:
1.69 deraadt 2125: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
2126:
1.113 naddy 2127: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2128: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2129: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2130:
2131: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2132: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2133: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2134:
1.113 naddy 2135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2136: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2137: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2138: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2139:
2140: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2141: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2142: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2143: site.<p>
1.57 louis 2144:
1.69 deraadt 2145: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
2146:
1.113 naddy 2147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 2148: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2149: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2150: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2151:
2152: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2153: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2154: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2155: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2156: <p>
1.15 louis 2157:
1.113 naddy 2158: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2159: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2160: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2161: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2162:
2163: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2164: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2165: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2166: columns."
1.113 naddy 2167: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2168:
1.69 deraadt 2169: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2170:
1.113 naddy 2171: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2172: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2173: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2174: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2175:
2176: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2177: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2178:
1.113 naddy 2179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2180: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2181: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2182:
2183: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2184: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2185: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2186:
1.69 deraadt 2187: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2188:
1.113 naddy 2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2190: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2191: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2192: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2193:
1.222 miod 2194: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2195: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2196: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2197: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2198: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2199:
1.69 deraadt 2200: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2201:
1.113 naddy 2202: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2203: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2204: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2205:
1.69 deraadt 2206: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2207: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2208: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2209:
1.69 deraadt 2210: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2211:
1.113 naddy 2212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2213: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2214: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2215: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2216:
2217: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2218: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2219: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2220:
1.113 naddy 2221: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2222: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2223: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2224: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2225: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2226:
1.69 deraadt 2227: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2228:
1.113 naddy 2229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2230: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2231: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2232: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2233: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2234: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2235:
2236: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2237: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2238: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2239: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2240: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2241: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2242:
2243: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2244:
1.113 naddy 2245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2246: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2247: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2248:
1.69 deraadt 2249: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2250: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2251: <p>
1.112 naddy 2252:
1.113 naddy 2253: </dl>
2254: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2255:
1.113 naddy 2256: <hr>
2257: <a name=se></a>
2258: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2259:
1.200 niklas 2260: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2261:
2262: <dl>
2263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2264: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2265: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2266:
2267: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2268: <p>
2269:
2270: </dl>
2271:
2272: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2273:
2274: <dl>
2275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2276: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2277: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2278:
2279: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2280: <p>
2281:
2282: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2283: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2284: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2285:
2286: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2287: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2288: <p>
2289:
2290: </dl>
2291:
2292: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2293:
2294: <dl>
2295: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2296: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2297: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2298:
2299: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2300: <p>
2301:
2302: </dl>
2303:
1.102 niklas 2304: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2305:
1.113 naddy 2306: <dl>
2307: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2308: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2309: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2310:
2311: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2312: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2313: <p>
1.102 niklas 2314:
1.113 naddy 2315: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2316:
1.84 niklas 2317: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2318:
1.113 naddy 2319: <dl>
2320: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2321: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2322: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2323:
2324: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2325: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2326: <p>
1.84 niklas 2327:
1.113 naddy 2328: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2329:
1.69 deraadt 2330: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2331:
1.113 naddy 2332: <dl>
2333: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2334: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2335: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2336:
1.222 miod 2337: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2338: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2339: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2340: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2341:
1.113 naddy 2342: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2343: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2344: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2345: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2346: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2347:
1.20 louis 2348: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2349: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2350: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2351: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2352: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2353:
1.113 naddy 2354: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2355:
1.113 naddy 2356: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2357: <a name=fi></a>
2358: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2359:
2360: <dl>
2361:
2362: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2363:
2364: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2365: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2366: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2367:
2368: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2369: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2370: </dl>
2371:
2372: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2373: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2374:
1.113 naddy 2375: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2376:
1.113 naddy 2377: <dl>
1.20 louis 2378:
1.170 louis 2379: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2380:
2381: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2382: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2383: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385:
2386: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2387: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2388: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2389: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2390: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2391: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2392: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2393: <p>
2394:
1.69 deraadt 2395: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2396:
1.113 naddy 2397: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2398: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2399: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2400: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2401:
2402: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2403: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2404: translating and reprinting articles from
2405: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2406: <p>
1.112 naddy 2407:
1.113 naddy 2408: </dl>
1.20 louis 2409:
1.113 naddy 2410: <hr>
2411: <a name=de></a>
2412: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2413: <dl>
1.50 louis 2414:
1.151 louis 2415: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2416:
2417: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2418: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2419: </strong></font><br>
2420:
2421: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2422: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2423: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2424: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2425: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2426:
2427: <p>
2428:
1.72 louis 2429: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2430:
1.113 naddy 2431: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2432: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2433: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2434: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2435:
1.101 jufi 2436: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2437: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2438: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2439: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2440: Giving way to
2441: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2442: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2443: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2444: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2445: <p>
1.72 louis 2446:
1.69 deraadt 2447: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2448:
1.113 naddy 2449: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2450: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2451: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2452: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2453:
2454: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2455: <p>
2456: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2457:
1.50 louis 2458:
1.113 naddy 2459: <hr>
2460: <a name=ru></a>
2461: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2462: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2463:
1.69 deraadt 2464: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2465:
1.113 naddy 2466: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2467: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2468: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2469: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2470:
2471: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2472: <p>
1.62 form 2473:
1.69 deraadt 2474: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2475:
1.113 naddy 2476: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2477: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2478: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2479: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2480:
1.59 form 2481: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2482: <p>
1.112 naddy 2483:
1.113 naddy 2484: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2485:
1.113 naddy 2486: <hr>
2487: <a name=pl></a>
2488: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2489: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2490:
1.113 naddy 2491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2492: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2493: Radio, August 2, 2000
2494: </strong></font><br>
2495:
2496: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2497: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2498: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2499: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2500: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2501: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2502: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2503: <p>
2504:
2505: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2506: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2507: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2508: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2509: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2510:
2511: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2512: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2513: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2514: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2515: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2516: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2517: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2518: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2519: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2520: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2521: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2522: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2523: <p>
2524: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2525:
1.113 naddy 2526: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2527: <a name=es></a>
2528: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2529: <dl>
2530:
2531: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2532:
2533: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2534: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2535: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2536: </strong></font><br>
2537:
2538: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2539: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2540: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2541: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2542: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2543: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2544: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2545: <p>
2546: </dl>
2547:
2548:
2549: <hr>
2550: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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