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31: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
32: <dl>
1.16 louis 33:
1.237 ! ian 34: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
! 35: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 36: <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/53/24681.html">
! 37: Microsoft's anti-Unix campaign backfires</a>,
! 38: The Register, April 3, 2002
! 39: </strong></font><br />
! 40: What do UniSys and Microsoft use when they want to set up a secure site?
! 41: According to this article,
! 42: the site <i>wehavethewayout.com</i> -
! 43: a joint Unisys/Microsoft site designed to lure people from UNIX to MS-Windows -
! 44: was originally set up with OpenBSD running Apache, and hurriedly
! 45: switched to MS-Windows and IIS once this fact was made public.
! 46: When we tried it day of the article, the site gave a 404 on its default page.
! 47: Better than showing CIOs defenestrating themselves, I suppose.
! 48: Better than an April Fools' joke, in fact.
! 49: </p>
! 50:
1.235 lebel 51: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
52:
53: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
54: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
55: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>, ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002
56: </strong></font><br>
57: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
58: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
59: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
60: <p>
61:
1.228 horacio 62: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
63:
64: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.233 jufi 65: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
66: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
67: </strong></font><br>
68: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
69: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.232 jufi 73: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
74: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
75: </strong></font><br>
76: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
77: on the desktop of his parents.
78: <p>
79:
80: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.229 jufi 81: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 82: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 83: </strong></font><br>
84: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
85: using IPFilter.
86:
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
90: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
91: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
92: </strong></font><br>
93: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
94: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
95: perspectives of the four OS.
96: <br>
97: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
98: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPSec or Kerberos.
99: <p>
100:
101: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.228 horacio 102: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
103: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
104: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
105: </strong></font><br>
106:
107: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
108: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
109: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
110: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
111: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
112: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
113: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
114: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
115: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
116: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
117: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
118: security conscious team beyond doubt.
119: <p>
120:
1.225 horacio 121: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
122:
123: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
124: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
125: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 126: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 127: </strong></font><br>
128:
129: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
130: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
131: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 132: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 133: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
134: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
135: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
136: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
137: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
138: services provider bussiness ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
139: of choice.
140: <p>
141:
142: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
143:
144: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
145: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
146: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
147: </strong></font><br>
148:
149: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
150: <p>
151:
1.226 horacio 152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
153: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
154: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, January 18, 2001
155: </strong></font><br>
156:
157: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
158: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
159: <p>
1.225 horacio 160:
1.218 horacio 161: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
162:
163: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 164: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
165: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
166: </strong></font><br>
167:
168: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
169: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
170: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
171: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
172: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
173: subjects. Worth a read.
174: <p>
175:
176:
177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.218 horacio 178: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 179: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 180: </strong></font><br>
181:
182: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
183: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
184: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
185: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
186: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
187: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
188: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
189: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
190: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 191: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 192: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
193: on other operating systems.<br>
194: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
195: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
196: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
197: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
198: <p>
199:
1.221 horacio 200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 201: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
202: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
203: </strong></font><br>
204:
205: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
206: covering the level of software integration into the core
207: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
208: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
209: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
210: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
211: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.221 horacio 215: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
216: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
217: </strong></font><br>
218:
219: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
220: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
221: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
222: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
223: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
224: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
225: <p>
226:
1.210 jufi 227: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 228:
1.210 jufi 229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 230: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
231: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
232: </strong></font><br>
233:
234: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
235: source software in response to an article which claimed that
236: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
237: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
238: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
239: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 horacio 243: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 244: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
245: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 246:
1.224 horacio 247: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
248: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
249: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
250: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
251: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
252: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 253: <p>
254:
255: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
256:
257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 258: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
259: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
260: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
261: </strong></font><br>
262:
263: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
264: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 265: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 266: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
267: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
268: investment</em>.<br>
269: The implementation details can be seen on their
270: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 274: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
275: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
276: </strong></font><br>
277:
278: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
279: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
280: security and says that even secured operating systems running
281: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
282: to time.<br>
283: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
284: system and just the most secure system.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
288: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
289: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
290: </strong></font><br>
291:
292: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
293: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
294: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
295: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
296: choice:<br>
297: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
298: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
299: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
300: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
301: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
302: network security devices and as such must be well
303: armored."</em><br>
304: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
305: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
306: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
307: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
308: <br>
309: Bravo!
310: <p>
1.210 jufi 311:
1.207 ian 312: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 313:
1.207 ian 314: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
315: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
316: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
317: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 318:
1.207 ian 319: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
320: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 321: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 322: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
323: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
324: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 325: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 326: <p>
1.207 ian 327:
1.194 jufi 328: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
329:
330: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 331: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
332: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
333: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 334:
1.213 horacio 335: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
336: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
337: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
338: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
339: <p>
340:
341: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 342: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 343: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
344: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
345: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 346:
1.201 horacio 347: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 348: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 349: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
350: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
351: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 352: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 353: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
354: <br>
355: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
356: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
357: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
358: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
359: <p>
360:
361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 362: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
363: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 364: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 365: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 366:
1.194 jufi 367: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
368: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
369: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
370: <br>
371: The new
372: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 373: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 374: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
375: <p>
1.194 jufi 376:
1.190 horacio 377: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
378:
379: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 380:
381: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
382: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
383:
384: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
385: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
386:
387: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
388: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
389:
1.212 horacio 390: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
391: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 392: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
393:
1.211 horacio 394: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
395: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 396: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
397:
398: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
399: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
400:
401: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
402: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
403:
1.212 horacio 404: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
405: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 406: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
407:
408: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
409: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
410:
411: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
412: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
413:
414: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
415: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
416:
417: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 418: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 419:
1.192 jufi 420: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
421: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 422: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 423:
1.193 deraadt 424: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
425: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 426: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 427:
1.196 deraadt 428: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
429: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
430:
1.198 pvalchev 431: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
432: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
433: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
434:
1.213 horacio 435: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
436: 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>,
437: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
438:
1.190 horacio 439: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 440: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
441: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
442: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
443: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
444: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
445: <p>
1.190 horacio 446:
1.191 jufi 447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 448: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
449: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
450: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 451: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 452:
1.195 jufi 453: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 454: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
455: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
456: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 457: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 461: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 462: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
463: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
464: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 465:
1.191 jufi 466: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
467: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
468: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
469: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 470: <p>
471:
1.191 jufi 472:
1.186 jufi 473: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 474:
1.186 jufi 475: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
476: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 477: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
478: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 479: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 480:
1.188 jufi 481: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 482: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 483: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 484: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
485: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 486: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 487: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 488: <p>
489:
1.191 jufi 490:
491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 492: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
493: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
494: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 495: </strong></font><br>
496:
497: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
498: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
499: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
500: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
501: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
502: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
503: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
504: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
505: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
506: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
507: familiar?
508: <p>
509:
1.178 louis 510: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
511:
512: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 513: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
514: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 515: </strong></font><br>
516:
517: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
518: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
519: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
520: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
521: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
522: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
523: <p>
524:
1.179 louis 525: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
526: <a
1.182 louis 527: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
528: </strong></font><br>
529:
530: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
531: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
532: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
533: <p>
534:
535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
536: <a
1.179 louis 537: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
538: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
539: </strong></font><br>
540:
541: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
542: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
543: <p>
544:
1.174 louis 545:
1.175 louis 546: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
547:
548: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
549: <a
1.179 louis 550: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
551: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
552: </strong></font><br>
553:
554: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
555: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
556: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
557: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
558: <p>
559:
560: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
561: <a
1.183 ian 562: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 563: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
564: </strong></font><br>
565:
566: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 567: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 568: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
569: <p>
570:
1.176 louis 571:
1.172 mickey 572: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
573:
574: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 575: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 576: </strong></font><br>
577:
578: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
579: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
580: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 581: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
585: <a
1.174 louis 586: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
587: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
588: </strong></font><br>
589:
590: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
591: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
592: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
593: <p>
594:
595: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
596: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
597: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
598: </strong></font><br>
599:
600: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
601: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
602: <p>
603:
604: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
605: <a
606: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
607: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
608: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
609: </strong></font><br>
610:
611: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
612: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
613: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
614: our own Theo de Raadt.
615: <p>
616:
617: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
618: <a
619: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
620: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
621: </strong></font><br>
622:
623: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
624: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
625: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
626: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
627: shut down.]
628: <p>
629:
630: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
631: <a
1.226 horacio 632: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
633: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 634: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 635: </strong></font><br>
636:
637: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
638: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
639: <p>
640:
1.161 louis 641: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
642:
1.175 louis 643: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
644: <a
645: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
646: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
647: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
648: </strong></font><br>
649:
650: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
651: by John Wolley
652: <p>
653:
654: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
655: <a
656: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
657: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
658: </strong></font><br>
659:
660: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
661: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
662: OpenBSD).
663: <p>
664:
1.161 louis 665: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
666: <a
1.171 louis 667: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
668: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
669: </strong></font><br>
670:
671: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
672: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
673: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
674: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
675: and hindsight.
676: <p>
677:
678: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 679: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
680: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
681: </strong></font><br>
682:
683: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 687: <a
1.168 provos 688: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
689: December 7, 2000
690: </strong></font><br>
691:
692: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
693: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
694: us explain.
695: <p>
696:
697: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.234 jufi 698: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
699: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 700: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 701: December 6, 2000
702: </strong></font><br>
703:
704: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
705: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
706: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
710: <a
1.226 horacio 711: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
712: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 713: </strong></font><br>
714:
715: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 716: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 717: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 718: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
719: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
720: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 721: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 722: <p>
1.162 millert 723:
724: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
725: <a
1.161 louis 726: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
727: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
728: </strong></font><br>
729:
730: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
731: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
732: <p>
733:
1.169 louis 734: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 735: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
736: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
737: </strong></font><br>
738:
739: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
740: <p>
741:
742:
743: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.169 louis 744: <a
1.226 horacio 745: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
746: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
747: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 748: </strong></font><br>
749:
750: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
751: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
752: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
753: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
754: <p>
755:
1.158 louis 756: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 757:
758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 759: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
760: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 761: </strong></font><br>
762:
763: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
764: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
765: <p>
766:
767: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 768: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
769: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
770: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 771: </strong></font><br>
772: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
773: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
774: <p>
775:
776: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
777: <a
778: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
779: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
780: </strong></font><br>
781:
782: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
783: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
784: <p>
785:
786: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 787: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 788: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
789: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 790:
1.213 horacio 791: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 792: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
793: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
794: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
795: <p>
1.215 horacio 796:
1.174 louis 797: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
798: <a
799: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
800: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
801: </strong></font><br>
802:
803: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
804: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
805: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
806: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
807: much of the attitude too).
808: <p>
1.161 louis 809:
810: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 811: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 812: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 813: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 814:
1.157 louis 815: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
816: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
817: <p>
818:
819: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
820:
821: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 822: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 823: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 824: </strong></font><br>
825:
826: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
827: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
828: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
829: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
830: <p>
831:
832: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
833: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
834: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
835: </strong></font><br>
836:
837: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
838: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
839: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
840: it because they love coding...
841: <p>
842:
843: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
844: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
845: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
846: </strong></font><br>
847:
848: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
849: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
850: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
851: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
852: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
853: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
854: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
855: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
856: <p>
857:
858: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 859: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
860: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
861: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 862: </strong></font><br>
863:
864: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
865: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
866: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
867: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
868: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
869: the pizza.
870: <p>
871:
872: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 873: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
874: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
875: </strong></font><br>
876:
877: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
878: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
879: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
880: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
881: problems.
882: <p>
883:
884: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 885: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
886: </strong></font><br>
887:
1.222 miod 888: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 889: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
890: - whether they like it or not.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 894: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
895: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 896: </strong></font><br>
897:
898: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
899: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
900: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 901: <p>
1.148 aaron 902:
903: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 904: <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 905: </strong></font><br>
906:
907: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
908: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
909: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
910: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
911: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
912: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
913: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
914: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
915: <p>
916:
917: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 918: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
919: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 920: </strong></font><br>
921:
922: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
923: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
924: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
925: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
926: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
927: <p>
928:
1.138 louis 929: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
930:
931: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 932: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
933: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
934: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
935: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 936: </strong></font><br>
937:
1.227 horacio 938: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 939: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
940: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
941: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
942: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
943: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
944: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
945: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 946: <p>
947:
948: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.231 jufi 949: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 950: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 951: </strong></font><br>
952:
953: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
954: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
955: groups, and even Linux.
956: <p>
957:
958: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 959: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
960: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 961: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
962: </strong></font><br>
963:
964: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
965: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
966: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
967: library after installing the OS.
968: <p>
969:
970: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 971: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 972: Sys Admin, September 2000
973: </strong></font><br>
974:
975: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
976: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
977: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
978: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
979: (<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>,
980: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
981: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
982: <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 983: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 984: out of the system.
985: <p>
986:
1.144 louis 987: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
988: <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
989: </strong></font><br>
990:
991: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 992: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
993: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
994: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
995: the IP filtering and address translation.
996: <p>
997:
1.131 louis 998: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
999:
1000: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1001: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1002: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1003: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1004: </strong></font><br>
1005:
1006: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1007: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1008: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1009: <p>
1010:
1011: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 1012: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1013: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1014: </strong></font><br>
1015:
1016: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1017: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1018: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1019: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1020: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1021: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1022: note of"</i>.
1023: <p>
1024:
1025: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 1026: <a
1027: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1028: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1029: </strong></font><br>
1030:
1031: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1032: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1033: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1034: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1035: <p>
1036:
1037: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1038: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1039: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1040: </strong></font><br>
1041:
1042: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1043: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1044: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1045: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1046: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1047: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1048: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1049: <p>
1050:
1051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 1052: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1053: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1054: 2000
1055: </strong></font><br>
1056:
1057: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1058: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1059: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1060: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1061: against current industry practices.
1062: <p>
1063:
1064: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 1065: <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
1066: </strong></font><br>
1067:
1068: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1069: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1070: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1071: <p>
1072:
1073: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 1074: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1075: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1076: </strong></font><br>
1077:
1078: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1079: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1080: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1081: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1082: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1083: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1084: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1085: <p>
1086:
1087: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 1088: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1089: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1090: </strong></font><br>
1091:
1092: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1093: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1094: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1095: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1096: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1097: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1098: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1099: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1100: <p>
1101:
1.118 louis 1102: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1103:
1104: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1105: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1106: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1107: </strong></font><br>
1108:
1109: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1110: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1111: about time. The article mentions that
1112: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1113: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1114: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1115: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1116: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1117: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1118: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1119: <p>
1120:
1121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1122: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1123: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125:
1126: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1127: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1128: of OpenSSH.
1129: <p>
1130:
1131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1132: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1133: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1134: </strong></font><br>
1135:
1136: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1137: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1138: bridging.
1139: <p>
1140:
1141: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1142: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1143: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1144: </strong></font><br>
1145:
1.121 deraadt 1146: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1147: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1148: <p>
1149:
1150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1151: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1152: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1153: </strong></font><br>
1154:
1155: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 1159: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1160: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1161: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1162: </strong></font><br>
1163:
1.120 deraadt 1164: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1165: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1166: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1167: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1168: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1169: <p>
1170:
1171: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 1172: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1173: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1174: </strong></font><br>
1175:
1.222 miod 1176: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1177: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1178: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1179: protocols and their quirks.
1180: <p>
1181:
1182: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1183: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1184: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1185: </strong></font><br>
1186:
1187: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1188: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1189: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1190: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1191: <p>
1192:
1193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 1194: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1195: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1196: </strong></font><br>
1197:
1198: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1199: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1200: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1201: <p>
1202:
1203: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1204: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1205: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1206: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1207: </strong></font><br>
1208:
1209: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1210: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1211: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1212: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1213: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1214: <p>
1215:
1.104 louis 1216: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1217:
1.113 naddy 1218: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1219: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1220: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1221: </strong></font><br>
1222:
1223: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1224: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1225: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1226: be a bit dry.
1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1230: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1231: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1232: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1233: </strong></font><br>
1234: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1235: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1236: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1237: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1238: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1239: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1240: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1241: <p>
1242:
1243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1244: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1245: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1246: 2000
1.128 louis 1247: </strong></font><br>
1248:
1249: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1250: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1251: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1252: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1253: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1254: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1255: <p>
1256:
1257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1258: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1259: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1260: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1261:
1262: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1263: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1264: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1265: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1266: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1267: <p>
1.110 louis 1268:
1.117 louis 1269: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1270: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1271: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1272: </strong></font><br>
1273:
1274: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1275: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1276: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1277: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1278: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1279: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1280: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1281: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1282: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1283: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1284: <p>
1285:
1.113 naddy 1286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1287: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1288: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1289:
1290: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1291: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1292: <p>
1.108 louis 1293:
1.113 naddy 1294: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1295: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1296: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1297: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1298:
1299: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1300: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1301: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1302: <p>
1.106 louis 1303:
1.113 naddy 1304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1305: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1306: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1307: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1308:
1309: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1310: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1311: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1312: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1313: <p>
1.107 louis 1314:
1.113 naddy 1315: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1316: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1317: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1318: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1319:
1320: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1321: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1322: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1323: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1324: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1325: <p>
1.105 louis 1326:
1.113 naddy 1327: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1328: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1329: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1330: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1331:
1.113 naddy 1332: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1333: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1334: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1335: <p>
1.104 louis 1336:
1.121 deraadt 1337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1338: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1339: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1340: </strong></font><br>
1341:
1342: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1343: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1344: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1345: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1346: <p>
1347:
1.85 louis 1348: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1349:
1.113 naddy 1350: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1351: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1352: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1353: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1354:
1355: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1356: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1357: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1358: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1359: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1360: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1361: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1362: <p>
1.99 louis 1363:
1.113 naddy 1364: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1365: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1366: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1367: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1368:
1369: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1370: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1371: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1372: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1373: <p>
1.100 louis 1374:
1.113 naddy 1375: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1376: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1377: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1378: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1379:
1380: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1381: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1382: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1383: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1384: <p>
1.95 louis 1385:
1.113 naddy 1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1387: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1388: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1389: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1390:
1391: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1392: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1393: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1394: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1395: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1396: <p>
1.92 louis 1397:
1.113 naddy 1398: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1399: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1400: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1401: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1402:
1403: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1404: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1405: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1406: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1407: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1408: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1409: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1410: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1411: <p>
1.91 louis 1412:
1.113 naddy 1413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1414: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1415: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1416: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1417:
1418: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1419: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1420: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1421: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1422: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1423: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1424: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1425: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1426: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1427: <p>
1.90 louis 1428:
1.113 naddy 1429: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1430: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1431: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1432: </strong></font><br>
1433: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1434: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1435: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1436: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1437: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1438: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1439: <p>
1440:
1441: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1442: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1443: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1444: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1445:
1.113 naddy 1446: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1447: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1448: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1449: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1450: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1451: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1452: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1453: <p>
1.87 louis 1454:
1.113 naddy 1455: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1456: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1457: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1458: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1459:
1460: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1461: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1462: <p>
1.85 louis 1463:
1.113 naddy 1464: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1465: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1466: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1467: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1468:
1469: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1470: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1471: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1472: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1473: <p>
1.89 louis 1474:
1.113 naddy 1475: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1476: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1477: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1478: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1479:
1480: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1481: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1482: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1483: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1484: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1485:
1.78 deraadt 1486: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1487:
1.113 naddy 1488: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1489: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1490: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1491: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1492: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1493:
1494: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1495: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1496: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1497: <p>
1.83 louis 1498:
1.113 naddy 1499: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1500: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1501: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1502: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1503:
1504: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1505: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1506: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1507: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1508: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1509: <p>
1.93 louis 1510:
1.113 naddy 1511: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1512: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1513: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1514: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1515: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1516:
1.83 louis 1517: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1518: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1519: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1520: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1521: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1522: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1523: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1524: <p>
1.82 aaron 1525:
1.113 naddy 1526: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1527: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1528: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1529: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1530:
1.83 louis 1531: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1532: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1533: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1534: <p>
1.80 louis 1535:
1.113 naddy 1536: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1537: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1538: Bad Press</a>,
1539: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1540: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1541:
1542: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1543: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1544: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1545: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1546: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1547: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1548:
1549: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1550:
1.113 naddy 1551: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1552: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1553: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1554: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1555: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1556:
1557: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1558: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1559: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1560: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1561: <p>
1.74 louis 1562:
1.113 naddy 1563: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1564: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1565: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1566: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1567:
1.219 horacio 1568: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1569: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1570: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1571: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1572: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1573: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1574: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1575: <p>
1.88 louis 1576:
1.113 naddy 1577: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1578: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1579: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1580: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1581:
1582: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1583: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1584: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1585: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1586: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1587: <p>
1.81 louis 1588:
1.113 naddy 1589: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1590: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1591: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1592: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1593:
1594: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1595: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1596: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1597: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1598: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1599: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1600: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1601: <p>
1.90 louis 1602:
1.113 naddy 1603: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1604: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1605: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1606: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1607:
1608: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1609: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1610: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1611: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1612: <p>
1.71 louis 1613:
1.69 deraadt 1614: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1615:
1.113 naddy 1616: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1617: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1618: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1619: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1620:
1621: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1622: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1623: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1624: <p>
1.70 louis 1625:
1.113 naddy 1626: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1627: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1628: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1629: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1630:
1631: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1632: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1633: <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 1634: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1635: <p>
1.68 louis 1636:
1.113 naddy 1637: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1638: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1639: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1640: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1641: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1642:
1.111 jufi 1643: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1644: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1645: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1646: "secure by default" installation.
1647: <p>
1.64 louis 1648:
1.113 naddy 1649: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1650: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1651: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1652: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1653:
1.113 naddy 1654: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1655: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1656: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1657: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1658: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1659: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1660: <p>
1.66 louis 1661:
1.113 naddy 1662: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1663: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1664: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1665: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1666:
1667: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1668: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1669: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1670: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1671: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1672: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1673: <p>
1.83 louis 1674:
1.113 naddy 1675: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1676: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1677: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1678: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1679:
1680: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1681: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1682: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1683: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1684: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1685: <p>
1.64 louis 1686:
1.113 naddy 1687: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1688: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1689: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1690: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1691:
1692: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1693: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1694: <p>
1.65 louis 1695:
1.69 deraadt 1696: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1697:
1.113 naddy 1698: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1699: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1700: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1701: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1702:
1703: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1704: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1705: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1706: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1707: <p>
1.88 louis 1708:
1.113 naddy 1709: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1710: <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 1711: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1712:
1713: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1714: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1715: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1716: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1717: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1718: <p>
1.60 louis 1719:
1.113 naddy 1720: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1721: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1722: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1723: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1724: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1725:
1726: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1727: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1728: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1729: <p>
1.58 louis 1730:
1.113 naddy 1731: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1732: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1733: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1734:
1735: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1736: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1737: <p>
1.53 louis 1738:
1.113 naddy 1739: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1740: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1741: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1742: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1743:
1744: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1745: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1746: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1747: <p>
1.99 louis 1748:
1.113 naddy 1749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1750: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1751: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1752:
1753: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1754: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1755: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1756: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1757: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1758:
1.113 naddy 1759: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1760: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1761: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1762: </strong></font><br>
1763:
1764: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1765: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1766: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1767: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1768: <p>
1769:
1770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1771: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1772: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1774:
1775: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1776: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1777: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1778:
1.113 naddy 1779: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1780: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1781: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1782:
1783: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1784: in
1.113 naddy 1785: <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 1786: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1787: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1788: <p>
1.53 louis 1789:
1.113 naddy 1790: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1791: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1792: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1793: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1794: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1795:
1.58 louis 1796: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1797: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1798:
1.69 deraadt 1799: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1800:
1.113 naddy 1801: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1802: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1803: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1804: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1805: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1806:
1.58 louis 1807: Kurt Seifried
1808: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1809: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1810: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1811: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1812:
1.113 naddy 1813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1814: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1815: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1816: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1817:
1818: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1819: <p>
1.96 louis 1820:
1.113 naddy 1821: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1822: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1823: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1824: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1825:
1826: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1827: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1828: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1829: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1830: <p>
1.86 louis 1831:
1.69 deraadt 1832: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1833:
1.113 naddy 1834: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1835: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1836: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1837: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1838:
1839: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1840: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1841: <p>
1.61 louis 1842:
1.113 naddy 1843: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1844: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1845: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1846: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1847: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1848:
1849: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1850: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1851: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1852: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1853: right -- or at least strives to".
1854: <p>
1.48 louis 1855:
1.113 naddy 1856: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1857: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1858: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1859: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1860: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1861: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1862: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1863: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1864: <p>
1.61 louis 1865:
1.113 naddy 1866: <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 1867: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1868: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1869:
1870: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1871: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1872: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1873: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1874: <p>
1.46 louis 1875:
1.113 naddy 1876: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 1877: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
1878: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1879: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1880:
1881: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1882: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1883: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1884:
1.113 naddy 1885: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1886: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1887: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1888: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1889:
1890: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1891: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1892: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1893: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1894: <p>
1.70 louis 1895:
1.69 deraadt 1896: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1897:
1.211 horacio 1898: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1899: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1900: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1901: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1902: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1903:
1904: Kurt Seifried
1905: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1906: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1907: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1908: <p>
1.44 philen 1909:
1.113 naddy 1910: <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 1911: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1912: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1913:
1914: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1915: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1916:
1.113 naddy 1917: <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 1918: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1919: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1920:
1921: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1922: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1923:
1.113 naddy 1924: <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 1925: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1926: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1927:
1928: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1929: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1930: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1931: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1932: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1933:
1.113 naddy 1934: <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 1935: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1936: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1937:
1.36 louis 1938: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1939: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1940:
1.113 naddy 1941: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1942: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1943: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1944: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1945:
1946: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1947: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1948:
1.69 deraadt 1949: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1950:
1.113 naddy 1951: <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 1952: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1953: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1954:
1955: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1956: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1957: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1960: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1961: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1962: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1963:
1964: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1965: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1966: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1967: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1968: <blockquote>
1969: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1970: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1971: <br>
1972: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1973: </code>
1974: </blockquote>
1975: <p>
1976:
1977: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1978: <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>
1979: <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
1980: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1981:
1982: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1983: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1984: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1985: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1986:
1.113 naddy 1987: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1988: <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 1989: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1990:
1991: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1992: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1993: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1994: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1995: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1996: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1997: <p>
1.19 louis 1998:
1.113 naddy 1999: <li><strong>
2000: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2001: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2002:
2003: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2004: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2005: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2006: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2007: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2008: <p>
1.16 louis 2009:
1.113 naddy 2010: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2011: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2012: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2013: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2014:
1.57 louis 2015: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2016: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2017: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2018: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2019:
1.113 naddy 2020: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2021: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2022: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2023: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2024:
1.113 naddy 2025: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2026:
1.113 naddy 2027: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 2028: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2029: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2030: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2031:
1.23 louis 2032: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2033: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2034: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2035: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2036: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 2037: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2038:
1.113 naddy 2039: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 2040: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2041: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2042: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2043:
1.199 pvalchev 2044: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2045: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2046: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2047: installation.
1.113 naddy 2048: <p>
1.47 louis 2049:
1.113 naddy 2050: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2051: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2052: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2053: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2054:
2055: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2056: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 2057:
1.69 deraadt 2058: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
2059:
1.113 naddy 2060: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2061: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2062: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2063: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2064:
2065: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2066: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2067: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2068: <p>
1.12 louis 2069:
1.113 naddy 2070: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2071: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2072: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2073: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2074:
2075: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2076: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2077: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2078: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2079: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2080: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2081: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2082: <p>
1.8 deraadt 2083:
1.69 deraadt 2084: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 2085:
1.113 naddy 2086: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2087: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2088: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2089:
2090: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2091: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2092: available."
1.113 naddy 2093: <p>
1.6 deraadt 2094:
1.69 deraadt 2095: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
2096:
1.113 naddy 2097: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 2098: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2099: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2100:
2101: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2102: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2103: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2104: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2105: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2106: <p>
1.33 louis 2107:
1.113 naddy 2108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2109: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2110: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2111: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2112:
1.113 naddy 2113: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2114: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2115: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2116: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2117: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2118: <p>
1.57 louis 2119:
1.69 deraadt 2120: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
2121:
1.113 naddy 2122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2123: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2124: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2125: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2126:
2127: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2128: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2129: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2130:
1.113 naddy 2131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 2132: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2133: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2134: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2135: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2136:
2137: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2138: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2139:
1.113 naddy 2140: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2141: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2142:
1.113 naddy 2143: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2144:
1.113 naddy 2145: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 2146: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2147: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2148: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2149:
2150: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2151: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 2152:
1.69 deraadt 2153: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
2154:
1.113 naddy 2155: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2156: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2157: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2158:
2159: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2160: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2161: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2162:
1.113 naddy 2163: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2164: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2165: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2166: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2167:
2168: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2169: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2170: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2171: site.<p>
1.57 louis 2172:
1.69 deraadt 2173: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
2174:
1.113 naddy 2175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 2176: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2177: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2178: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2179:
2180: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2181: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2182: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2183: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2184: <p>
1.15 louis 2185:
1.113 naddy 2186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2187: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2188: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2189: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2190:
2191: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2192: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2193: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2194: columns."
1.113 naddy 2195: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2196:
1.69 deraadt 2197: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2198:
1.113 naddy 2199: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2200: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2201: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2202: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2203:
2204: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2205: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2206:
1.113 naddy 2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2208: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2209: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2210:
2211: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2212: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2213: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2214:
1.69 deraadt 2215: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2216:
1.113 naddy 2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2218: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2219: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2220: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2221:
1.222 miod 2222: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2223: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2224: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2225: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2226: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2227:
1.69 deraadt 2228: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2229:
1.113 naddy 2230: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2231: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2232: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2233:
1.69 deraadt 2234: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2235: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2236: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2237:
1.69 deraadt 2238: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2239:
1.113 naddy 2240: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2241: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2242: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2243: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2244:
2245: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2246: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2247: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2248:
1.113 naddy 2249: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2250: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2251: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2252: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2253: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2254:
1.69 deraadt 2255: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2256:
1.113 naddy 2257: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2258: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2259: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2260: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2261: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2262: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2263:
2264: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2265: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2266: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2267: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2268: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2269: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2270:
2271: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2272:
1.113 naddy 2273: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2274: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2275: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2276:
1.69 deraadt 2277: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2278: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2279: <p>
1.112 naddy 2280:
1.113 naddy 2281: </dl>
2282: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2283:
1.113 naddy 2284: <hr>
2285: <a name=se></a>
2286: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2287:
1.200 niklas 2288: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2289:
2290: <dl>
2291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2292: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2293: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2294:
2295: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2296: <p>
2297:
2298: </dl>
2299:
2300: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2301:
2302: <dl>
2303: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2304: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2305: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2306:
2307: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2308: <p>
2309:
2310: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2311: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2312: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2313:
2314: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2315: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2316: <p>
2317:
2318: </dl>
2319:
2320: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2321:
2322: <dl>
2323: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2324: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2325: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2326:
2327: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2328: <p>
2329:
2330: </dl>
2331:
1.102 niklas 2332: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2333:
1.113 naddy 2334: <dl>
2335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2336: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2337: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2338:
2339: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2340: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2341: <p>
1.102 niklas 2342:
1.113 naddy 2343: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2344:
1.84 niklas 2345: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2346:
1.113 naddy 2347: <dl>
2348: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2349: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2350: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2351:
2352: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2353: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2354: <p>
1.84 niklas 2355:
1.113 naddy 2356: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2357:
1.69 deraadt 2358: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2359:
1.113 naddy 2360: <dl>
2361: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2362: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2363: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2364:
1.222 miod 2365: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2366: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2367: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2368: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2369:
1.113 naddy 2370: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2371: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2372: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2373: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2374: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2375:
1.20 louis 2376: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2377: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2378: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2379: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2380: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2381:
1.113 naddy 2382: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2383:
1.113 naddy 2384: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2385: <a name=fi></a>
2386: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2387:
2388: <dl>
2389:
2390: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2391:
2392: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2393: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2394: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2395:
2396: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2397: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2398: </dl>
2399:
2400: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2401: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2402:
1.113 naddy 2403: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2404:
1.113 naddy 2405: <dl>
1.20 louis 2406:
1.170 louis 2407: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2408:
2409: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2410: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2411: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2412: </strong></font><br>
2413:
2414: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2415: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2416: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2417: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2418: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2419: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2420: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2421: <p>
2422:
1.69 deraadt 2423: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2424:
1.113 naddy 2425: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2426: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2427: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2428: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2429:
2430: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2431: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2432: translating and reprinting articles from
2433: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2434: <p>
1.112 naddy 2435:
1.113 naddy 2436: </dl>
1.20 louis 2437:
1.113 naddy 2438: <hr>
2439: <a name=de></a>
2440: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2441: <dl>
1.50 louis 2442:
1.151 louis 2443: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2444:
2445: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2446: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2447: </strong></font><br>
2448:
2449: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2450: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2451: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2452: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2453: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2454:
2455: <p>
2456:
1.72 louis 2457: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2458:
1.113 naddy 2459: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2460: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2461: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2462: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2463:
1.101 jufi 2464: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2465: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2466: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2467: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2468: Giving way to
2469: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2470: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2471: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2472: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2473: <p>
1.72 louis 2474:
1.69 deraadt 2475: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2476:
1.113 naddy 2477: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2478: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2479: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2480: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2481:
2482: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2483: <p>
2484: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2485:
1.50 louis 2486:
1.113 naddy 2487: <hr>
2488: <a name=ru></a>
2489: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2490: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2491:
1.69 deraadt 2492: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2493:
1.113 naddy 2494: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2495: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2496: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2497: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2498:
2499: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2500: <p>
1.62 form 2501:
1.69 deraadt 2502: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2503:
1.113 naddy 2504: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2505: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2506: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 2507: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2508:
1.59 form 2509: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2510: <p>
1.112 naddy 2511:
1.113 naddy 2512: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2513:
1.113 naddy 2514: <hr>
2515: <a name=pl></a>
2516: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2517: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2518:
1.113 naddy 2519: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2520: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2521: Radio, August 2, 2000
2522: </strong></font><br>
2523:
2524: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2525: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2526: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2527: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2528: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2529: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2530: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2531: <p>
2532:
2533: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2534: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2535: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2536: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2537: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2538:
2539: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2540: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2541: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2542: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2543: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2544: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2545: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2546: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2547: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2548: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2549: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2550: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2551: <p>
2552: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2553:
1.113 naddy 2554: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2555: <a name=es></a>
2556: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2557: <dl>
2558:
2559: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2560:
2561: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2562: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2563: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2564: </strong></font><br>
2565:
2566: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2567: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2568: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2569: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2570: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2571: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2572: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2573: <p>
2574: </dl>
2575:
2576:
2577: <hr>
2578: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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