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31: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
32: <dl>
1.16 louis 33:
1.242 jufi 34:
35: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
36:
37: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
38: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
39: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>, O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002
40: </strong></font><br>
41: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
42: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
43: <p>
44:
45: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
46: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
47: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>, Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002
48: </strong></font><br>
49: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
50: this time using pf.
51: <p>
52:
53: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
54:
55: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
56: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
57: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002
58: </strong></font><br>
59: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
60: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
61: their rotation.
62: <p>
63:
64: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
65: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
66: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002
67: </strong></font><br>
68: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
69: <p>
70:
1.239 jufi 71: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
72:
73: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.242 jufi 74: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
75: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002
76: </strong></font><br>
77: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
78: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
79: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.239 jufi 83: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
84: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002
85: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 86: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
87: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
88: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 89: <p>
90:
1.235 lebel 91: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
92:
1.239 jufi 93:
1.235 lebel 94: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
95: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
96: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>, ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002
97: </strong></font><br>
98: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
99: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
100: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
101: <p>
102:
1.228 horacio 103: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
104:
105: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.242 jufi 106: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
107: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>, O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
108: </strong></font><br>
109: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
110: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
111: <p>
112:
113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.233 jufi 114: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
115: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
116: </strong></font><br>
117: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
118: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
119: <p>
120:
121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.232 jufi 122: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
123: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
124: </strong></font><br>
125: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
126: on the desktop of his parents.
127: <p>
128:
129: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.229 jufi 130: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 131: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 132: </strong></font><br>
133: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
134: using IPFilter.
135:
136: <p>
137:
138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
139: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
140: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
141: </strong></font><br>
142: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
143: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
144: perspectives of the four OS.
145: <br>
146: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
147: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPSec or Kerberos.
148: <p>
149:
150: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.228 horacio 151: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
152: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
153: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
154: </strong></font><br>
155:
156: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
157: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
158: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
159: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
160: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
161: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
162: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
163: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
164: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
165: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
166: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
167: security conscious team beyond doubt.
168: <p>
169:
1.225 horacio 170: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
171:
172: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
173: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
174: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 175: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 176: </strong></font><br>
177:
178: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
179: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
180: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 181: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 182: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
183: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
184: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
185: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
186: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 187: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 188: of choice.
189: <p>
190:
191: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
192:
193: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
194: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
195: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
196: </strong></font><br>
197:
198: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
199: <p>
200:
1.226 horacio 201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
202: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
203: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, January 18, 2001
204: </strong></font><br>
205:
206: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
207: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
208: <p>
1.225 horacio 209:
1.218 horacio 210: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
211:
212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 213: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
214: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
215: </strong></font><br>
216:
217: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
218: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
219: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
220: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
221: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
222: subjects. Worth a read.
223: <p>
224:
225:
226: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.218 horacio 227: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 228: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 229: </strong></font><br>
230:
231: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
232: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
233: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
234: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
235: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
236: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
237: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
238: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
239: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 240: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 241: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
242: on other operating systems.<br>
243: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
244: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
245: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
246: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
247: <p>
248:
1.221 horacio 249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 250: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
251: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
252: </strong></font><br>
253:
254: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
255: covering the level of software integration into the core
256: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
257: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
258: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
259: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
260: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
261: <p>
262:
263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.221 horacio 264: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
265: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
266: </strong></font><br>
267:
268: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
269: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
270: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
271: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
272: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
273: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
274: <p>
275:
1.210 jufi 276: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 277:
1.210 jufi 278: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 279: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
280: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
281: </strong></font><br>
282:
283: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
284: source software in response to an article which claimed that
285: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
286: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
287: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
288: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.224 horacio 292: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 293: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
294: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 295:
1.224 horacio 296: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
297: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
298: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
299: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
300: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
301: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 302: <p>
303:
304: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
305:
306: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 307: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
308: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
309: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
310: </strong></font><br>
311:
312: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
313: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 314: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 315: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
316: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
317: investment</em>.<br>
318: The implementation details can be seen on their
319: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
320: <p>
321:
322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 323: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
324: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
325: </strong></font><br>
326:
327: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
328: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
329: security and says that even secured operating systems running
330: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
331: to time.<br>
332: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
333: system and just the most secure system.
334: <p>
335:
336: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
337: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
338: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
339: </strong></font><br>
340:
341: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
342: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
343: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
344: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
345: choice:<br>
346: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
347: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
348: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
349: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
350: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
351: network security devices and as such must be well
352: armored."</em><br>
353: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
354: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
355: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
356: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
357: <br>
358: Bravo!
359: <p>
1.210 jufi 360:
1.207 ian 361: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 362:
1.207 ian 363: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
364: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
365: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
366: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 367:
1.207 ian 368: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
369: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 370: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 371: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
372: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
373: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 374: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 375: <p>
1.207 ian 376:
1.194 jufi 377: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
378:
379: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 380: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
381: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
382: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 383:
1.240 miod 384: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 385: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
386: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
387: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
388: <p>
389:
390: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 391: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 392: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
393: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
394: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 395:
1.240 miod 396: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 397: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 398: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
399: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
400: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 401: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 402: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
403: <br>
404: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
405: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
406: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
407: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
408: <p>
409:
410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 411: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
412: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 413: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 414: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 415:
1.194 jufi 416: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
417: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
418: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
419: <br>
420: The new
421: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 422: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 423: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
424: <p>
1.194 jufi 425:
1.190 horacio 426: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
427:
428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 429:
430: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
431: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
432:
433: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
434: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
435:
436: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
437: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
438:
1.212 horacio 439: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
440: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 441: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
442:
1.211 horacio 443: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
444: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 445: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
446:
447: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
448: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
449:
450: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
451: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
452:
1.212 horacio 453: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
454: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 455: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
456:
457: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
458: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
459:
460: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
461: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
462:
463: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
464: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
465:
466: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 467: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 468:
1.192 jufi 469: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
470: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 471: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 472:
1.193 deraadt 473: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
474: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 475: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 476:
1.196 deraadt 477: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
478: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
479:
1.198 pvalchev 480: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
481: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
482: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
483:
1.213 horacio 484: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
485: 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>,
486: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
487:
1.190 horacio 488: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 489: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
490: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
491: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
492: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
493: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
494: <p>
1.190 horacio 495:
1.191 jufi 496: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 497: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
498: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
499: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 500: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 501:
1.195 jufi 502: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 503: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
504: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
505: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 506: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
507: <p>
508:
509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 510: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 511: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
512: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
513: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 514:
1.191 jufi 515: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
516: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
517: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
518: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 519: <p>
520:
1.191 jufi 521:
1.186 jufi 522: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 523:
1.186 jufi 524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
525: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 526: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
527: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 528: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 529:
1.188 jufi 530: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 531: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 532: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 533: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
534: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 535: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 536: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 537: <p>
538:
1.191 jufi 539:
540: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.220 horacio 541: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
542: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
543: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 544: </strong></font><br>
545:
546: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
547: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
548: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
549: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
550: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
551: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
552: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
553: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
554: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
555: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
556: familiar?
557: <p>
558:
1.178 louis 559: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
560:
561: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
563: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 564: </strong></font><br>
565:
566: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
567: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
568: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
569: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
570: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
571: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
572: <p>
573:
1.179 louis 574: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
575: <a
1.182 louis 576: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
577: </strong></font><br>
578:
579: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
580: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
581: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
582: <p>
583:
584: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
585: <a
1.179 louis 586: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
587: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
588: </strong></font><br>
589:
590: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
591: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
592: <p>
593:
1.174 louis 594:
1.175 louis 595: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
596:
597: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
598: <a
1.179 louis 599: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
600: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
601: </strong></font><br>
602:
603: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
604: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
605: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
606: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
607: <p>
608:
609: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
610: <a
1.183 ian 611: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 612: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
613: </strong></font><br>
614:
615: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 616: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 617: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
618: <p>
619:
1.176 louis 620:
1.172 mickey 621: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
622:
623: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 624: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 625: </strong></font><br>
626:
627: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
628: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
629: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 630: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 631: <p>
632:
633: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
634: <a
1.174 louis 635: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
636: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
640: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
641: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
642: <p>
643:
644: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
645: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
646: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
647: </strong></font><br>
648:
649: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
650: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
651: <p>
652:
653: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
654: <a
655: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
656: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
657: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
658: </strong></font><br>
659:
660: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
661: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
662: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
663: our own Theo de Raadt.
664: <p>
665:
666: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
667: <a
668: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
669: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
670: </strong></font><br>
671:
672: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
673: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
674: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
675: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
676: shut down.]
677: <p>
678:
679: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
680: <a
1.226 horacio 681: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
682: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 683: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 684: </strong></font><br>
685:
686: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
687: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
688: <p>
689:
1.161 louis 690: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
691:
1.175 louis 692: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
693: <a
694: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
695: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
696: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
697: </strong></font><br>
698:
699: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
700: by John Wolley
701: <p>
702:
703: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
704: <a
705: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
706: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
707: </strong></font><br>
708:
709: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
710: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
711: OpenBSD).
712: <p>
713:
1.161 louis 714: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
715: <a
1.171 louis 716: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
717: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
718: </strong></font><br>
719:
720: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
721: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
722: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
723: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
724: and hindsight.
725: <p>
726:
727: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 728: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
729: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
730: </strong></font><br>
731:
732: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
733: <p>
734:
735: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 736: <a
1.168 provos 737: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
738: December 7, 2000
739: </strong></font><br>
740:
741: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
742: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
743: us explain.
744: <p>
745:
746: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.234 jufi 747: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
748: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 749: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 750: December 6, 2000
751: </strong></font><br>
752:
753: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
754: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
755: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
759: <a
1.226 horacio 760: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
761: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 762: </strong></font><br>
763:
764: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 765: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 766: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 767: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
768: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
769: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 770: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 771: <p>
1.162 millert 772:
773: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
774: <a
1.161 louis 775: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
776: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
777: </strong></font><br>
778:
779: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
780: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
781: <p>
782:
1.169 louis 783: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.225 horacio 784: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
785: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
786: </strong></font><br>
787:
788: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
789: <p>
790:
791:
792: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.169 louis 793: <a
1.226 horacio 794: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
795: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
796: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 797: </strong></font><br>
798:
799: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
800: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
801: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
802: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
803: <p>
804:
1.158 louis 805: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 806:
807: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 808: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
809: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 810: </strong></font><br>
811:
812: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
813: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
814: <p>
815:
816: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 817: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
818: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
819: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 820: </strong></font><br>
821: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
822: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
826: <a
827: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
828: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
829: </strong></font><br>
830:
831: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
832: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
833: <p>
834:
835: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 836: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 837: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
838: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 839:
1.213 horacio 840: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 841: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
842: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
843: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
844: <p>
1.215 horacio 845:
1.174 louis 846: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
847: <a
848: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
849: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
850: </strong></font><br>
851:
852: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
853: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
854: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
855: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
856: much of the attitude too).
857: <p>
1.161 louis 858:
859: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 860: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 861: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 862: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 863:
1.157 louis 864: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
865: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
866: <p>
867:
868: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
869:
870: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 871: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 872: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 873: </strong></font><br>
874:
875: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
876: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
877: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
878: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
879: <p>
880:
881: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
882: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
883: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
884: </strong></font><br>
885:
886: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
887: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
888: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
889: it because they love coding...
890: <p>
891:
892: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
893: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
894: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
895: </strong></font><br>
896:
897: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
898: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
899: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
900: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
901: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
902: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
903: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
904: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
905: <p>
906:
907: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 908: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
909: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
910: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 911: </strong></font><br>
912:
913: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
914: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
915: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
916: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
917: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
918: the pizza.
919: <p>
920:
921: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 922: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
923: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
924: </strong></font><br>
925:
926: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
927: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
928: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
929: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
930: problems.
931: <p>
932:
933: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.243 ! ian 934: <a href="http://napalm.osuny.co.uk/txt/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
1.154 louis 935: </strong></font><br>
936:
1.222 miod 937: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 938: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
939: - whether they like it or not.
940: <p>
941:
942: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 943: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
944: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 945: </strong></font><br>
946:
947: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
948: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
949: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 950: <p>
1.148 aaron 951:
952: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 953: <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 954: </strong></font><br>
955:
956: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
957: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
958: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
959: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
960: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
961: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
962: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
963: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
964: <p>
965:
966: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 967: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
968: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 969: </strong></font><br>
970:
971: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
972: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
973: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
974: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
975: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
976: <p>
977:
1.138 louis 978: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
979:
980: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 981: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
982: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
983: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
984: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 985: </strong></font><br>
986:
1.227 horacio 987: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 988: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
989: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
990: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
991: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
992: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
993: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
994: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 995: <p>
996:
997: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.231 jufi 998: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 999: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1000: </strong></font><br>
1001:
1002: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1003: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1004: groups, and even Linux.
1005: <p>
1006:
1007: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 1008: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1009: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1010: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1011: </strong></font><br>
1012:
1013: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1014: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1015: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1016: library after installing the OS.
1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.227 horacio 1020: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1021: Sys Admin, September 2000
1022: </strong></font><br>
1023:
1024: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1025: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1026: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1027: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1028: (<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>,
1029: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1030: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1031: <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 1032: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1033: out of the system.
1034: <p>
1035:
1.144 louis 1036: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1037: <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
1038: </strong></font><br>
1039:
1040: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1041: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1042: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1043: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1044: the IP filtering and address translation.
1045: <p>
1046:
1.131 louis 1047: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1048:
1049: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1050: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1051: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1052: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1053: </strong></font><br>
1054:
1055: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1056: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1057: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 1061: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1062: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1063: </strong></font><br>
1064:
1065: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1066: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1067: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1068: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1069: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1070: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1071: note of"</i>.
1072: <p>
1073:
1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 1075: <a
1076: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1077: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1078: </strong></font><br>
1079:
1080: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1081: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1082: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1083: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1084: <p>
1085:
1086: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1087: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1088: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1092: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1093: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1094: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1095: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1096: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1097: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1098: <p>
1099:
1100: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 1101: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1102: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1103: 2000
1104: </strong></font><br>
1105:
1106: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1107: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1108: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1109: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1110: against current industry practices.
1111: <p>
1112:
1113: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 1114: <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
1115: </strong></font><br>
1116:
1117: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1118: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1119: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1120: <p>
1121:
1122: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 1123: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1124: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1125: </strong></font><br>
1126:
1127: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1128: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1129: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1130: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1131: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1132: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1133: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1134: <p>
1135:
1136: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 1137: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1138: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1139: </strong></font><br>
1140:
1141: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1142: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1143: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1144: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1145: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1146: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1147: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1148: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1149: <p>
1150:
1.118 louis 1151: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1152:
1153: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1154: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1155: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1156: </strong></font><br>
1157:
1158: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1159: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1160: about time. The article mentions that
1161: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1162: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1163: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1164: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1165: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1166: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1167: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1168: <p>
1169:
1170: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1171: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1172: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1173: </strong></font><br>
1174:
1175: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1176: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1177: of OpenSSH.
1178: <p>
1179:
1180: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1181: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1182: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1183: </strong></font><br>
1184:
1185: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1186: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1187: bridging.
1188: <p>
1189:
1190: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1191: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1192: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1193: </strong></font><br>
1194:
1.121 deraadt 1195: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1196: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1197: <p>
1198:
1199: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1200: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1201: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1202: </strong></font><br>
1203:
1204: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1205: <p>
1206:
1207: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 1208: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1209: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1210: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1211: </strong></font><br>
1212:
1.120 deraadt 1213: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1214: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1215: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1216: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1217: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1218: <p>
1219:
1220: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 1221: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1222: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1223: </strong></font><br>
1224:
1.222 miod 1225: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1226: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1227: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1228: protocols and their quirks.
1229: <p>
1230:
1231: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1232: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1233: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1234: </strong></font><br>
1235:
1236: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1237: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1238: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1239: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1240: <p>
1241:
1242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 1243: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1244: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1245: </strong></font><br>
1246:
1247: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1248: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1249: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1250: <p>
1251:
1252: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1253: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1254: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1255: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1256: </strong></font><br>
1257:
1258: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1259: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1260: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1261: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1262: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1263: <p>
1264:
1.104 louis 1265: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1266:
1.113 naddy 1267: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1268: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1269: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1270: </strong></font><br>
1271:
1272: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1273: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1274: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1275: be a bit dry.
1276: <p>
1277:
1278: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1279: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1280: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1281: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1282: </strong></font><br>
1283: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1284: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1285: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1286: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1287: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1288: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1289: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1290: <p>
1291:
1292: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1293: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1294: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1295: 2000
1.128 louis 1296: </strong></font><br>
1297:
1298: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1299: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1300: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1301: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1302: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1303: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1304: <p>
1305:
1306: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1307: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1308: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1309: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1310:
1311: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1312: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1313: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1314: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1315: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1316: <p>
1.110 louis 1317:
1.117 louis 1318: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1319: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1320: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1321: </strong></font><br>
1322:
1323: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1324: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1325: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1326: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1327: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1328: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1329: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1330: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1331: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1332: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.113 naddy 1335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1336: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1337: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1338:
1339: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1340: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1341: <p>
1.108 louis 1342:
1.113 naddy 1343: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1344: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1345: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1346: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1347:
1348: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1349: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1350: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1351: <p>
1.106 louis 1352:
1.113 naddy 1353: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1354: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1355: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1356: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1357:
1358: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1359: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1360: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1361: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1362: <p>
1.107 louis 1363:
1.113 naddy 1364: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1365: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1366: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1367: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1368:
1369: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1370: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1371: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1372: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1373: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1374: <p>
1.105 louis 1375:
1.113 naddy 1376: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1377: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1378: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1379: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1380:
1.113 naddy 1381: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1382: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1383: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1384: <p>
1.104 louis 1385:
1.121 deraadt 1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1387: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1388: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1389: </strong></font><br>
1390:
1391: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1392: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1393: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1394: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1395: <p>
1396:
1.85 louis 1397: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1398:
1.113 naddy 1399: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1400: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1401: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1402: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1403:
1404: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1405: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1406: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1407: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1408: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1409: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1410: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1411: <p>
1.99 louis 1412:
1.113 naddy 1413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1414: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1415: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1416: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1417:
1418: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1419: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1420: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1421: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1422: <p>
1.100 louis 1423:
1.113 naddy 1424: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1425: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1426: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1427: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1428:
1429: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1430: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1431: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1432: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1433: <p>
1.95 louis 1434:
1.113 naddy 1435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1436: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1437: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1438: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1439:
1440: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1441: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1442: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1443: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1444: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1445: <p>
1.92 louis 1446:
1.113 naddy 1447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1448: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1449: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1450: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1451:
1452: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1453: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1454: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1455: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1456: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1457: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1458: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1459: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1460: <p>
1.91 louis 1461:
1.113 naddy 1462: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1463: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1464: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1465: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1466:
1467: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1468: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1469: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1470: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1471: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1472: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1473: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1474: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1475: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1476: <p>
1.90 louis 1477:
1.113 naddy 1478: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1479: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1480: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1481: </strong></font><br>
1482: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1483: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1484: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1485: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1486: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1487: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1488: <p>
1489:
1490: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1491: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1492: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1493: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1494:
1.113 naddy 1495: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1496: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1497: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1498: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1499: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1500: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1501: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1502: <p>
1.87 louis 1503:
1.113 naddy 1504: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1505: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1506: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1507: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1508:
1509: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1510: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1511: <p>
1.85 louis 1512:
1.113 naddy 1513: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1514: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1515: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1516: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1517:
1518: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1519: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1520: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1521: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1522: <p>
1.89 louis 1523:
1.113 naddy 1524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1525: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1526: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1527: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1528:
1529: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1530: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1531: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1532: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1533: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1534:
1.78 deraadt 1535: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1536:
1.113 naddy 1537: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1538: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1539: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1540: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1541: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1542:
1543: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1544: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1545: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1546: <p>
1.83 louis 1547:
1.113 naddy 1548: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1549: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1550: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1551: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1552:
1553: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1554: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1555: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1556: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1557: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1558: <p>
1.93 louis 1559:
1.113 naddy 1560: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1561: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1562: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1563: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1564: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1565:
1.83 louis 1566: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1567: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1568: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1569: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1570: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1571: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1572: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1573: <p>
1.82 aaron 1574:
1.113 naddy 1575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1576: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1577: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1578: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1579:
1.83 louis 1580: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1581: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1582: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1583: <p>
1.80 louis 1584:
1.113 naddy 1585: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1586: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1587: Bad Press</a>,
1588: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1589: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1590:
1591: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1592: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1593: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1594: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1595: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1596: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1597:
1598: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1599:
1.113 naddy 1600: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1601: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1602: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1603: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1604: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1605:
1606: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1607: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1608: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1609: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1610: <p>
1.74 louis 1611:
1.113 naddy 1612: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1613: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1614: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1615: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1616:
1.219 horacio 1617: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1618: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1619: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1620: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1621: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1622: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1623: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1624: <p>
1.88 louis 1625:
1.113 naddy 1626: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1627: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1628: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1629: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1630:
1631: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1632: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1633: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1634: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1635: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1636: <p>
1.81 louis 1637:
1.113 naddy 1638: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1639: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1640: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1641: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1642:
1643: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1644: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1645: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1646: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1647: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1648: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1649: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1650: <p>
1.90 louis 1651:
1.113 naddy 1652: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1653: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1654: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1655: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1656:
1657: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1658: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1659: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1660: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1661: <p>
1.71 louis 1662:
1.69 deraadt 1663: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1664:
1.113 naddy 1665: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1666: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1667: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1668: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1669:
1670: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1671: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1672: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1673: <p>
1.70 louis 1674:
1.113 naddy 1675: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1676: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1677: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1678: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1679:
1680: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1681: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1682: <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 1683: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1684: <p>
1.68 louis 1685:
1.113 naddy 1686: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1687: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1688: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1689: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1690: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1691:
1.111 jufi 1692: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1693: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1694: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1695: "secure by default" installation.
1696: <p>
1.64 louis 1697:
1.113 naddy 1698: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1699: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1700: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1701: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1702:
1.113 naddy 1703: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1704: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1705: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1706: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1707: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1708: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1709: <p>
1.66 louis 1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1712: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1713: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1714: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1715:
1716: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1717: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1718: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1719: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1720: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1721: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1722: <p>
1.83 louis 1723:
1.113 naddy 1724: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1725: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1726: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1727: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1728:
1729: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1730: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1731: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1732: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1733: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1734: <p>
1.64 louis 1735:
1.113 naddy 1736: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1737: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1738: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1739: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1740:
1741: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1742: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1743: <p>
1.65 louis 1744:
1.69 deraadt 1745: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1746:
1.113 naddy 1747: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1748: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1749: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1750: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1751:
1752: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1753: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1754: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1755: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1756: <p>
1.88 louis 1757:
1.113 naddy 1758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1759: <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 1760: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1761:
1762: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1763: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1764: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1765: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1766: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1767: <p>
1.60 louis 1768:
1.113 naddy 1769: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1770: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1771: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1772: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1774:
1775: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1776: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1777: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1778: <p>
1.58 louis 1779:
1.113 naddy 1780: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1781: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1782: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1783:
1784: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1785: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1786: <p>
1.53 louis 1787:
1.113 naddy 1788: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1789: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1790: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1791: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1792:
1793: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1794: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1795: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1796: <p>
1.99 louis 1797:
1.113 naddy 1798: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1799: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1800: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1801:
1802: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1803: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1804: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1805: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1806: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1807:
1.113 naddy 1808: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1809: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1810: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1811: </strong></font><br>
1812:
1813: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1814: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1815: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1816: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1817: <p>
1818:
1819: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1820: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1821: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1822: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1823:
1824: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1825: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1826: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1827:
1.113 naddy 1828: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1829: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1830: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1831:
1832: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1833: in
1.113 naddy 1834: <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 1835: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1836: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1837: <p>
1.53 louis 1838:
1.113 naddy 1839: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1840: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1841: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1842: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1843: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1844:
1.58 louis 1845: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1846: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1847:
1.69 deraadt 1848: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1849:
1.113 naddy 1850: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.219 horacio 1851: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1852: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1853: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1854: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1855:
1.58 louis 1856: Kurt Seifried
1857: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1858: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1859: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1860: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1861:
1.113 naddy 1862: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1863: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1864: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1865: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1866:
1867: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1868: <p>
1.96 louis 1869:
1.113 naddy 1870: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1871: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1872: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1873: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1874:
1875: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1876: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1877: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1878: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1879: <p>
1.86 louis 1880:
1.69 deraadt 1881: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1882:
1.113 naddy 1883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1884: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1885: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1886: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1887:
1888: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1889: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1890: <p>
1.61 louis 1891:
1.113 naddy 1892: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1893: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1894: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1895: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1896: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1897:
1898: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1899: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1900: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1901: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1902: right -- or at least strives to".
1903: <p>
1.48 louis 1904:
1.113 naddy 1905: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1906: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1907: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1908: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1909: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1910: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1911: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1912: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1913: <p>
1.61 louis 1914:
1.113 naddy 1915: <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 1916: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1917: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1918:
1919: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1920: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1921: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1922: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1923: <p>
1.46 louis 1924:
1.113 naddy 1925: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.226 horacio 1926: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
1927: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1928: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1929:
1930: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1931: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1932: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1933:
1.113 naddy 1934: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1935: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1936: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1937: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1938:
1939: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1940: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1941: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1942: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1943: <p>
1.70 louis 1944:
1.69 deraadt 1945: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1946:
1.211 horacio 1947: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1948: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1949: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1950: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1951: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1952:
1953: Kurt Seifried
1954: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1955: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1956: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1957: <p>
1.44 philen 1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <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 1960: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1961: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1962:
1963: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1964: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1965:
1.113 naddy 1966: <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 1967: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1968: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1969:
1970: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1971: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1972:
1.113 naddy 1973: <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 1974: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1975: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1976:
1977: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1978: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1979: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1980: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1981: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1982:
1.113 naddy 1983: <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 1984: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1985: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1986:
1.36 louis 1987: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1988: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1989:
1.113 naddy 1990: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1991: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1992: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1993: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1994:
1995: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1996: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1997:
1.69 deraadt 1998: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1999:
1.113 naddy 2000: <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 2001: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2002: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2003:
2004: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2005: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2006: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2007:
1.113 naddy 2008: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2009: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 2010: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2011: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2012:
2013: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2014: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2015: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2016: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2017: <blockquote>
2018: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2019: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2020: <br>
2021: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2022: </code>
2023: </blockquote>
2024: <p>
2025:
2026: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2027: <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>
2028: <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
2029: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2030:
2031: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2032: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2033: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 2034: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2035:
1.113 naddy 2036: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 2037: <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 2038: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2039:
2040: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2041: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2042: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2043: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2044: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2045: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2046: <p>
1.19 louis 2047:
1.113 naddy 2048: <li><strong>
2049: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2050: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2051:
2052: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2053: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2054: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2055: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2056: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2057: <p>
1.16 louis 2058:
1.113 naddy 2059: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2060: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2061: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2062: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2063:
1.57 louis 2064: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2065: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2066: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2067: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2068:
1.113 naddy 2069: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2070: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2071: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2072: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2073:
1.113 naddy 2074: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2075:
1.113 naddy 2076: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 2077: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2078: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2079: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2080:
1.23 louis 2081: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2082: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2083: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2084: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2085: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 2086: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2087:
1.113 naddy 2088: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 2089: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2090: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2091: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2092:
1.199 pvalchev 2093: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2094: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2095: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2096: installation.
1.113 naddy 2097: <p>
1.47 louis 2098:
1.113 naddy 2099: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2100: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2101: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2102: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2103:
2104: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2105: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 2106:
1.69 deraadt 2107: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
2108:
1.113 naddy 2109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2110: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2111: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2112: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2113:
2114: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2115: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2116: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2117: <p>
1.12 louis 2118:
1.113 naddy 2119: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2120: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2121: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2122: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2123:
2124: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2125: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2126: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2127: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2128: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2129: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2130: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2131: <p>
1.8 deraadt 2132:
1.69 deraadt 2133: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 2134:
1.113 naddy 2135: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2136: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2137: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2138:
2139: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2140: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2141: available."
1.113 naddy 2142: <p>
1.6 deraadt 2143:
1.69 deraadt 2144: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
2145:
1.113 naddy 2146: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 2147: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2148: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2149:
2150: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2151: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2152: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2153: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2154: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2155: <p>
1.33 louis 2156:
1.113 naddy 2157: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2158: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2159: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2160: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2161:
1.113 naddy 2162: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2163: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2164: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2165: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2166: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2167: <p>
1.57 louis 2168:
1.69 deraadt 2169: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
2170:
1.113 naddy 2171: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2172: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2173: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2174: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2175:
2176: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2177: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2178: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2179:
1.113 naddy 2180: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 2181: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2182: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2183: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2184: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2185:
2186: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2187: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2188:
1.113 naddy 2189: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2190: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2191:
1.113 naddy 2192: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2193:
1.113 naddy 2194: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 2195: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2196: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2197: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2198:
2199: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2200: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 2201:
1.69 deraadt 2202: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
2203:
1.113 naddy 2204: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2205: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2206: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2207:
2208: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2209: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2210: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2211:
1.113 naddy 2212: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2213: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2214: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2215: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2216:
2217: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2218: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2219: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2220: site.<p>
1.57 louis 2221:
1.69 deraadt 2222: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
2223:
1.113 naddy 2224: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 2225: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2226: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2227: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2228:
2229: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2230: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2231: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2232: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2233: <p>
1.15 louis 2234:
1.113 naddy 2235: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2236: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2237: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2238: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2239:
2240: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2241: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2242: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2243: columns."
1.113 naddy 2244: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2245:
1.69 deraadt 2246: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
2247:
1.113 naddy 2248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2249: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2250: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2251: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2252:
2253: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2254: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2255:
1.113 naddy 2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2257: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2258: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2259:
2260: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2261: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2262: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2263:
1.69 deraadt 2264: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2265:
1.113 naddy 2266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2267: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2268: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2269: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2270:
1.222 miod 2271: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2272: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2273: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2274: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2275: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2276:
1.69 deraadt 2277: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2278:
1.113 naddy 2279: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2280: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2281: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2282:
1.69 deraadt 2283: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2284: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2285: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2286:
1.69 deraadt 2287: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2288:
1.113 naddy 2289: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2290: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2291: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2292: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2293:
2294: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2295: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2296: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2297:
1.113 naddy 2298: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2299: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2300: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2301: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2302: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2303:
1.69 deraadt 2304: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2305:
1.113 naddy 2306: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2307: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2308: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2309: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2310: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2311: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2312:
2313: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2314: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2315: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2316: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2317: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2318: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2319:
2320: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2321:
1.113 naddy 2322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2323: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2324: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2325:
1.69 deraadt 2326: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2327: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2328: <p>
1.112 naddy 2329:
1.113 naddy 2330: </dl>
2331: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2332:
1.113 naddy 2333: <hr>
2334: <a name=se></a>
2335: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2336:
1.200 niklas 2337: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2338:
2339: <dl>
2340: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2341: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2342: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2343:
2344: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2345: <p>
2346:
2347: </dl>
2348:
2349: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2350:
2351: <dl>
2352: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2353: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2354: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2355:
2356: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2357: <p>
2358:
2359: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2360: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2361: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2362:
2363: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2364: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2365: <p>
2366:
2367: </dl>
2368:
2369: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2370:
2371: <dl>
2372: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2373: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2374: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2375:
2376: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2377: <p>
2378:
2379: </dl>
2380:
1.102 niklas 2381: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2382:
1.113 naddy 2383: <dl>
2384: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2385: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2386: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2387:
2388: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2389: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2390: <p>
1.102 niklas 2391:
1.113 naddy 2392: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2393:
1.84 niklas 2394: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2395:
1.113 naddy 2396: <dl>
2397: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2398: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2399: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2400:
2401: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2402: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2403: <p>
1.84 niklas 2404:
1.113 naddy 2405: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2406:
1.69 deraadt 2407: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2408:
1.113 naddy 2409: <dl>
2410: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2411: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2412: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2413:
1.222 miod 2414: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2415: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2416: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2417: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2418:
1.113 naddy 2419: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2420: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2421: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2422: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2423: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2424:
1.20 louis 2425: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2426: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2427: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2428: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2429: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2430:
1.113 naddy 2431: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2432:
1.113 naddy 2433: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2434: <a name=fi></a>
2435: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2436:
2437: <dl>
2438:
2439: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2440:
2441: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2442: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2443: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2444:
2445: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2446: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2447: </dl>
2448:
2449: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2450: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2451:
1.113 naddy 2452: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2453:
1.113 naddy 2454: <dl>
1.20 louis 2455:
1.170 louis 2456: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2457:
2458: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2459: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2460: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2461: </strong></font><br>
2462:
2463: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2464: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2465: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2466: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2467: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2468: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2469: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2470: <p>
2471:
1.69 deraadt 2472: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2473:
1.113 naddy 2474: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2475: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2476: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2477: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2478:
2479: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2480: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2481: translating and reprinting articles from
2482: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2483: <p>
1.112 naddy 2484:
1.113 naddy 2485: </dl>
1.20 louis 2486:
1.113 naddy 2487: <hr>
2488: <a name=de></a>
2489: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2490: <dl>
1.50 louis 2491:
1.151 louis 2492: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2493:
2494: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2495: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2496: </strong></font><br>
2497:
2498: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2499: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2500: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2501: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2502: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2503:
2504: <p>
2505:
1.72 louis 2506: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2507:
1.113 naddy 2508: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2509: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2510: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2511: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2512:
1.101 jufi 2513: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2514: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2515: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2516: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2517: Giving way to
2518: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2519: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2520: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2521: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2522: <p>
1.72 louis 2523:
1.69 deraadt 2524: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2525:
1.113 naddy 2526: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2527: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2528: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2529: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2530:
2531: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2532: <p>
2533: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2534:
1.50 louis 2535:
1.113 naddy 2536: <hr>
2537: <a name=ru></a>
2538: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2539: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2540:
1.69 deraadt 2541: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2542:
1.113 naddy 2543: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2544: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2545: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2546: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2547:
2548: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2549: <p>
1.62 form 2550:
1.69 deraadt 2551: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2552:
1.113 naddy 2553: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2554: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2555: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 2556: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2557:
1.59 form 2558: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2559: <p>
1.112 naddy 2560:
1.113 naddy 2561: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2562:
1.113 naddy 2563: <hr>
2564: <a name=pl></a>
2565: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2566: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2567:
1.113 naddy 2568: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2569: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2570: Radio, August 2, 2000
2571: </strong></font><br>
2572:
2573: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2574: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2575: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2576: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2577: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2578: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2579: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2580: <p>
2581:
2582: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2583: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2584: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2585: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2586: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2587:
2588: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2589: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2590: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2591: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2592: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2593: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2594: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2595: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2596: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2597: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2598: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2599: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2600: <p>
2601: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2602:
1.113 naddy 2603: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2604: <a name=es></a>
2605: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2606: <dl>
2607:
2608: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2609:
2610: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2611: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2612: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2613: </strong></font><br>
2614:
2615: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2616: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2617: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2618: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2619: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2620: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2621: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2622: <p>
2623: </dl>
2624:
2625:
2626: <hr>
2627: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
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