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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.247 jufi 32: <h3><font color="#e00000">English press coverage</font></h3><p>
1.16 louis 33:
1.249 jufi 34: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
35: <ul>
36: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
37: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
38: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
39: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003
40: </strong></font><br>
41: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
42: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
43: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
44: <p>
45: </ul>
46:
1.246 jufi 47: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 48: <ul>
1.246 jufi 49:
1.247 jufi 50: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 51: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
52: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>, CNET News.com, December 04, 2002
53: </strong></font><br>
54: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
55: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
56: <p>
57:
1.247 jufi 58: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 59: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
60: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>, eWeek, December 03, 2002
61: </strong></font><br>
62: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
63: in their annual OpenHack security test.
64: <p>
1.247 jufi 65: </ul>
1.246 jufi 66:
1.244 jufi 67: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 68: <ul>
1.246 jufi 69:
1.247 jufi 70: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 71: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
72: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
73: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
74: <br>
75: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002
76: </strong></font><br>
77: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
78: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
79: md5 digests.
80: <p>
81:
1.247 jufi 82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 83: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.246 jufi 84: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>, eWeek, October 18, 2002
1.244 jufi 85: </strong></font><br>
86: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
87: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
88: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
89: right the first time."
90: <p>
1.247 jufi 91: </ul>
1.244 jufi 92:
93:
94: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 95: <ul>
1.244 jufi 96:
1.247 jufi 97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 98: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
99: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF
100: Logs</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002
101: </strong></font><br>
102: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
103: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
104: part 6</a>.
105: <p>
106:
1.247 jufi 107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 108: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
109: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002
110: </strong></font><br>
111: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
112: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
113: <p>
1.247 jufi 114: </ul>
1.242 jufi 115:
116: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 117: <ul>
1.242 jufi 118:
1.247 jufi 119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 120: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
121: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>, O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002
122: </strong></font><br>
123: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
124: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
125: <p>
126:
1.247 jufi 127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 128: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
129: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>, Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002
130: </strong></font><br>
131: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
132: this time using pf.
133: <p>
1.247 jufi 134: </ul>
1.242 jufi 135:
136: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 137: <ul>
1.242 jufi 138:
1.247 jufi 139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 140: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
141: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002
142: </strong></font><br>
143: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
144: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
145: their rotation.
146: <p>
147:
1.247 jufi 148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 149: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
150: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002
151: </strong></font><br>
152: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
153: <p>
1.247 jufi 154: </ul>
1.242 jufi 155:
1.239 jufi 156: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 157: <ul>
1.239 jufi 158:
1.247 jufi 159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 160: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
161: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002
162: </strong></font><br>
163: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
164: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
165: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
166: <p>
167:
1.247 jufi 168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 169: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
170: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002
171: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 172: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
173: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
174: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 175: <p>
1.247 jufi 176: </ul>
1.239 jufi 177:
1.235 lebel 178: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 179: <ul>
1.235 lebel 180:
1.239 jufi 181:
1.247 jufi 182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 183: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
184: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>, ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002
185: </strong></font><br>
186: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
187: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
188: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
189: <p>
1.247 jufi 190: </ul>
1.235 lebel 191:
1.228 horacio 192: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 193: <ul>
1.228 horacio 194:
1.247 jufi 195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 196: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
197: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>, O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
198: </strong></font><br>
199: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
200: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
201: <p>
202:
1.247 jufi 203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 204: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
205: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
206: </strong></font><br>
207: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
208: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
209: <p>
210:
1.247 jufi 211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 212: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
213: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
214: </strong></font><br>
215: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
216: on the desktop of his parents.
217: <p>
218:
1.247 jufi 219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 220: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 221: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 222: </strong></font><br>
223: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
224: using IPFilter.
225:
226: <p>
227:
1.247 jufi 228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 229: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
230: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
231: </strong></font><br>
232: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
233: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
234: perspectives of the four OS.
235: <br>
236: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 ! jufi 237: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 238: <p>
239:
1.247 jufi 240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 241: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
242: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
243: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
244: </strong></font><br>
245:
246: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
247: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
248: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
249: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
250: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
251: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
252: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
253: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
254: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
255: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
256: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
257: security conscious team beyond doubt.
258: <p>
1.247 jufi 259: </ul>
1.228 horacio 260:
1.225 horacio 261: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 262: <ul>
1.225 horacio 263:
1.247 jufi 264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 265: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
266: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 267: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 268: </strong></font><br>
269:
270: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
271: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
272: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 273: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 274: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
275: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
276: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
277: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
278: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 279: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 280: of choice.
281: <p>
1.247 jufi 282: </ul>
1.225 horacio 283:
284: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 285: <ul>
1.225 horacio 286:
1.247 jufi 287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 288: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
289: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
290: </strong></font><br>
291:
292: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
293: <p>
294:
1.247 jufi 295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 296: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.245 jufi 297: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 298: </strong></font><br>
299:
300: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
301: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
302: <p>
1.247 jufi 303: </ul>
1.225 horacio 304:
1.218 horacio 305: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 306: <ul>
1.218 horacio 307:
1.247 jufi 308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 309: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
310: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
311: </strong></font><br>
312:
313: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
314: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
315: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
316: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
317: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
318: subjects. Worth a read.
319: <p>
320:
321:
1.247 jufi 322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 323: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 324: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 325: </strong></font><br>
326:
327: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
328: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
329: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
330: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
331: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
332: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
333: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
334: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
335: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 336: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 337: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
338: on other operating systems.<br>
339: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
340: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
341: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
342: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
343: <p>
344:
1.247 jufi 345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 346: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
347: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
348: </strong></font><br>
349:
350: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
351: covering the level of software integration into the core
352: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
353: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
354: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
355: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
356: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
357: <p>
358:
1.247 jufi 359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 360: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
361: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
362: </strong></font><br>
363:
364: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
365: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
366: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
367: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
368: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
369: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
370: <p>
1.247 jufi 371: </ul>
1.221 horacio 372:
1.210 jufi 373: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 374: <ul>
1.215 horacio 375:
1.247 jufi 376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 377: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
378: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
379: </strong></font><br>
380:
381: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
382: source software in response to an article which claimed that
383: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
384: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
385: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
386: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
387: <p>
388:
1.247 jufi 389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 390: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 391: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
392: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 393:
1.224 horacio 394: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
395: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
396: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
397: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
398: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
399: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 400: <p>
1.247 jufi 401: </ul>
1.215 horacio 402:
403: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 404: <ul>
1.215 horacio 405:
1.247 jufi 406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 407: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
408: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
409: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
410: </strong></font><br>
411:
412: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
413: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 414: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 415: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
416: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
417: investment</em>.<br>
418: The implementation details can be seen on their
419: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
420: <p>
421:
1.247 jufi 422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 423: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
424: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
425: </strong></font><br>
426:
427: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
428: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
429: security and says that even secured operating systems running
430: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
431: to time.<br>
432: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
433: system and just the most secure system.
434: <p>
435:
1.247 jufi 436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 437: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
438: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
439: </strong></font><br>
440:
441: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
442: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
443: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
444: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
445: choice:<br>
446: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
447: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
448: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
449: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
450: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
451: network security devices and as such must be well
452: armored."</em><br>
453: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
454: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
455: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
456: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
457: <br>
458: Bravo!
459: <p>
1.247 jufi 460: </ul>
1.210 jufi 461:
1.207 ian 462: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 463: <ul>
1.215 horacio 464:
1.247 jufi 465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 466: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
467: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
468: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 469:
1.207 ian 470: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
471: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 472: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 473: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
474: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
475: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 476: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 477: <p>
1.247 jufi 478: </ul>
1.207 ian 479:
1.194 jufi 480: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 481: <ul>
1.194 jufi 482:
1.247 jufi 483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 484: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
485: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
486: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 487:
1.240 miod 488: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 489: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
490: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
491: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
492: <p>
493:
1.247 jufi 494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 495: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 496: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
497: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
498: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 499:
1.240 miod 500: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 501: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 502: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
503: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
504: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 505: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 506: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
507: <br>
508: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
509: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
510: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
511: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
512: <p>
513:
1.247 jufi 514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 515: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
516: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 517: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 518: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 519:
1.194 jufi 520: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
521: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
522: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
523: <br>
524: The new
525: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 526: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 527: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
528: <p>
1.247 jufi 529: </ul>
1.194 jufi 530:
1.190 horacio 531: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 532: <ul>
1.190 horacio 533:
1.247 jufi 534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 535:
536: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
537: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
538:
539: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
540: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
541:
542: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
543: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
544:
1.212 horacio 545: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
546: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 547: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
548:
1.211 horacio 549: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
550: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 551: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
552:
1.247 jufi 553: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 554: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
555:
1.247 jufi 556: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 557: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
558:
1.212 horacio 559: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
560: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 561: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
562:
563: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
564: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
565:
566: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
567: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
568:
569: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
570: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
571:
572: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 573: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 574:
1.192 jufi 575: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
576: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 577: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 578:
1.193 deraadt 579: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
580: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 581: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 582:
1.247 jufi 583: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 584: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
585:
1.247 jufi 586: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 587: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
588: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
589:
1.213 horacio 590: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 591: 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>,
1.213 horacio 592: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
593:
1.190 horacio 594: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 595: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
596: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
597: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
598: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
599: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
600: <p>
1.190 horacio 601:
1.247 jufi 602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 603: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
604: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
605: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 606: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 607:
1.195 jufi 608: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 609: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
610: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
611: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 612: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
613: <p>
614:
1.247 jufi 615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 616: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 617: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
618: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
619: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 620:
1.191 jufi 621: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
622: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
623: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
624: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 625: <p>
1.247 jufi 626: </ul>
1.190 horacio 627:
1.191 jufi 628:
1.186 jufi 629: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 630: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 631:
1.247 jufi 632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 633: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 634: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
635: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 636: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 637:
1.188 jufi 638: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 639: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 640: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 641: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
642: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 643: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 644: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 645: <p>
646:
1.191 jufi 647:
1.247 jufi 648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 649: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
650: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
651: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 652: </strong></font><br>
653:
654: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
655: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
656: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
657: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
658: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
659: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
660: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
661: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
662: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
663: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
664: familiar?
665: <p>
1.247 jufi 666: </ul>
1.191 jufi 667:
1.178 louis 668: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 669: <ul>
1.178 louis 670:
1.247 jufi 671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 672: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
673: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 674: </strong></font><br>
675:
676: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
677: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
678: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
679: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
680: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
681: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
682: <p>
683:
1.247 jufi 684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 685: <a
1.182 louis 686: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
687: </strong></font><br>
688:
689: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
690: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
691: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
692: <p>
693:
1.247 jufi 694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.182 louis 695: <a
1.179 louis 696: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
697: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
698: </strong></font><br>
699:
700: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
701: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
702: <p>
1.247 jufi 703: </ul>
1.179 louis 704:
1.174 louis 705:
1.175 louis 706: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 707: <ul>
1.175 louis 708:
1.247 jufi 709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 710: <a
1.179 louis 711: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
712: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
713: </strong></font><br>
714:
715: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
716: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
717: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
718: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
719: <p>
720:
1.247 jufi 721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 722: <a
1.183 ian 723: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 724: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
725: </strong></font><br>
726:
727: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 728: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 729: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
730: <p>
1.247 jufi 731: </ul>
1.175 louis 732:
1.176 louis 733:
1.172 mickey 734: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 735: <ul>
1.172 mickey 736:
1.247 jufi 737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.180 louis 738: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 739: </strong></font><br>
740:
741: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
742: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
743: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 744: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 745: <p>
746:
1.247 jufi 747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 748: <a
1.174 louis 749: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
750: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
751: </strong></font><br>
752:
753: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
754: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
755: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
756: <p>
757:
1.247 jufi 758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 759: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
760: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
761: </strong></font><br>
762:
763: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
764: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
765: <p>
766:
1.247 jufi 767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 768: <a
769: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
770: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
771: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
772: </strong></font><br>
773:
774: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
775: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
776: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
777: our own Theo de Raadt.
778: <p>
779:
1.247 jufi 780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 781: <a
782: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
783: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
784: </strong></font><br>
785:
786: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
787: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
788: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
789: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
790: shut down.]
791: <p>
792:
1.247 jufi 793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 794: <a
1.226 horacio 795: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
796: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 797: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 798: </strong></font><br>
799:
800: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
801: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
802: <p>
1.247 jufi 803: </ul>
1.172 mickey 804:
1.161 louis 805: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 806: <ul>
1.161 louis 807:
1.247 jufi 808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 809: <a
810: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
811: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
812: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
813: </strong></font><br>
814:
815: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
816: by John Wolley
817: <p>
818:
1.247 jufi 819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 820: <a
821: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
822: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
823: </strong></font><br>
824:
825: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
826: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
827: OpenBSD).
828: <p>
829:
1.247 jufi 830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 831: <a
1.247 jufi 832: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 833: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
834: </strong></font><br>
835:
836: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
837: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
838: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
839: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
840: and hindsight.
841: <p>
842:
1.247 jufi 843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 844: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
845: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
846: </strong></font><br>
847:
848: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
849: <p>
850:
1.247 jufi 851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 852: <a
1.168 provos 853: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
854: December 7, 2000
855: </strong></font><br>
856:
857: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
858: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
859: us explain.
860: <p>
861:
1.247 jufi 862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 863: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
864: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 865: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 866: December 6, 2000
867: </strong></font><br>
868:
869: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
870: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
871: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
872: <p>
873:
1.247 jufi 874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 875: <a
1.226 horacio 876: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
877: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 878: </strong></font><br>
879:
880: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 881: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 882: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 883: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
884: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
885: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 886: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 887: <p>
1.162 millert 888:
1.247 jufi 889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 890: <a
1.161 louis 891: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
892: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
893: </strong></font><br>
894:
895: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
896: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
897: <p>
898:
1.247 jufi 899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 900: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
901: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
902: </strong></font><br>
903:
904: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
905: <p>
906:
907:
1.247 jufi 908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 909: <a
1.226 horacio 910: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
911: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
912: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 913: </strong></font><br>
914:
915: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
916: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
917: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
918: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
919: <p>
1.247 jufi 920: </ul>
1.169 louis 921:
1.158 louis 922: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 923: <ul>
1.147 louis 924:
1.247 jufi 925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 926: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
927: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 928: </strong></font><br>
929:
930: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
931: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
932: <p>
933:
1.247 jufi 934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 935: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
936: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
937: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 938: </strong></font><br>
939: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
940: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
941: <p>
942:
1.247 jufi 943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 944: <a
945: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
946: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
947: </strong></font><br>
948:
949: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
950: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
951: <p>
952:
1.247 jufi 953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 954: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 955: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
956: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 957:
1.213 horacio 958: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 959: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
960: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
961: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
962: <p>
1.215 horacio 963:
1.247 jufi 964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 965: <a
966: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
967: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
968: </strong></font><br>
969:
970: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
971: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
972: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
973: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
974: much of the attitude too).
975: <p>
1.161 louis 976:
1.247 jufi 977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 978: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 979: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 980: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 981:
1.157 louis 982: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
983: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
984: <p>
1.247 jufi 985: </ul>
1.157 louis 986:
987: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 988: <ul>
1.157 louis 989:
1.247 jufi 990: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 991: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 992: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 993: </strong></font><br>
994:
995: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
996: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
997: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
998: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
999: <p>
1000:
1.247 jufi 1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1002: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1003: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1004: </strong></font><br>
1005:
1006: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1007: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1008: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1009: it because they love coding...
1010: <p>
1011:
1.247 jufi 1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1013: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1014: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1015: </strong></font><br>
1016:
1017: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1018: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1019: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1020: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1021: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1022: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1023: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1024: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1025: <p>
1026:
1.247 jufi 1027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1028: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1029: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1030: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1031: </strong></font><br>
1032:
1033: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1034: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1035: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1036: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1037: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1038: the pizza.
1039: <p>
1040:
1.247 jufi 1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1042: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1043: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1044: </strong></font><br>
1045:
1046: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1047: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1048: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1049: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1050: problems.
1051: <p>
1052:
1.247 jufi 1053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1054: <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 1055: </strong></font><br>
1056:
1.222 miod 1057: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1058: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1059: - whether they like it or not.
1060: <p>
1061:
1.247 jufi 1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1063: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1064: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1065: </strong></font><br>
1066:
1067: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1068: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1069: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1070: <p>
1.148 aaron 1071:
1.247 jufi 1072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1073: <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 1074: </strong></font><br>
1075:
1076: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1077: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1078: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1079: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1080: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1081: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1082: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1083: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1084: <p>
1085:
1.247 jufi 1086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1087: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1088: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1092: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1093: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1094: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1095: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1096: <p>
1.247 jufi 1097: </ul>
1.147 louis 1098:
1.138 louis 1099: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1100: <ul>
1.138 louis 1101:
1.247 jufi 1102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1103: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1104: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1105: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1106: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1107: </strong></font><br>
1108:
1.227 horacio 1109: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1110: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1111: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1112: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1113: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1114: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1115: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1116: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1117: <p>
1118:
1.247 jufi 1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1120: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1121: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1122: </strong></font><br>
1123:
1124: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1125: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1126: groups, and even Linux.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1130: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1131: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1132: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1133: </strong></font><br>
1134:
1135: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1136: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1137: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1138: library after installing the OS.
1139: <p>
1140:
1.247 jufi 1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1142: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1143: Sys Admin, September 2000
1144: </strong></font><br>
1145:
1146: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1147: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1148: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1149: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1150: (<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>,
1151: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1152: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1153: <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 1154: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1155: out of the system.
1156: <p>
1157:
1.247 jufi 1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1159: <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
1160: </strong></font><br>
1161:
1162: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1163: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1164: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1165: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1166: the IP filtering and address translation.
1167: <p>
1.247 jufi 1168: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1169:
1.131 louis 1170: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1171: <ul>
1.131 louis 1172:
1.247 jufi 1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1174: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1175: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1176: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1177: </strong></font><br>
1178:
1179: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1180: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1181: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1182: <p>
1183:
1.247 jufi 1184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1185: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1186: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1187: </strong></font><br>
1188:
1189: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1190: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1191: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1192: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1193: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1194: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1195: note of"</i>.
1196: <p>
1197:
1.247 jufi 1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1199: <a
1.247 jufi 1200: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1201: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1202: </strong></font><br>
1203:
1204: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1205: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1206: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1207: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1208: <p>
1209:
1.247 jufi 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1211: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1212: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1213: </strong></font><br>
1214:
1215: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1216: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1217: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1218: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1219: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1220: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1221: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1222: <p>
1223:
1.247 jufi 1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1225: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1226: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1227: 2000
1228: </strong></font><br>
1229:
1230: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1231: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1232: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1233: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1234: against current industry practices.
1235: <p>
1236:
1.247 jufi 1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1238: <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
1239: </strong></font><br>
1240:
1241: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1242: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1243: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1244: <p>
1245:
1.247 jufi 1246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1247: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1248: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1249: </strong></font><br>
1250:
1251: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1252: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1253: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1254: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1255: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1256: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1257: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1258: <p>
1259:
1.247 jufi 1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1261: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1262: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1263: </strong></font><br>
1264:
1265: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1266: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1267: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1268: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1269: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1270: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1271: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1272: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1273: <p>
1.247 jufi 1274: </ul>
1.131 louis 1275:
1.118 louis 1276: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1277: <ul>
1.118 louis 1278:
1.247 jufi 1279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1280: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1281: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1282: </strong></font><br>
1283:
1284: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1285: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1286: about time. The article mentions that
1287: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1288: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1289: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1290: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1291: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1292: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1293: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1294: <p>
1295:
1.247 jufi 1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1297: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1298: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1299: </strong></font><br>
1300:
1301: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1302: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1303: of OpenSSH.
1304: <p>
1305:
1.247 jufi 1306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1307: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1308: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1309: </strong></font><br>
1310:
1311: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1312: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1313: bridging.
1314: <p>
1315:
1.247 jufi 1316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1317: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1318: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1319: </strong></font><br>
1320:
1.121 deraadt 1321: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1322: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1323: <p>
1324:
1.247 jufi 1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1326: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1327: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1328: </strong></font><br>
1329:
1330: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1331: <p>
1332:
1.247 jufi 1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1334: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1335: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1336: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1337: </strong></font><br>
1338:
1.120 deraadt 1339: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1340: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1341: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1342: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1343: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1344: <p>
1345:
1.247 jufi 1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1347: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1348: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1349: </strong></font><br>
1350:
1.222 miod 1351: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1352: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1353: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1354: protocols and their quirks.
1355: <p>
1356:
1.247 jufi 1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1358: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1359: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1360: </strong></font><br>
1361:
1362: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1363: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1364: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1365: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1366: <p>
1367:
1.247 jufi 1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1369: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1370: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1371: </strong></font><br>
1372:
1373: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1374: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1375: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1376: <p>
1377:
1.247 jufi 1378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1379: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1380: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1381: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1382: </strong></font><br>
1383:
1384: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1385: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1386: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1387: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1388: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1389: <p>
1.247 jufi 1390: </ul>
1.118 louis 1391:
1.104 louis 1392: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1393: <ul>
1.104 louis 1394:
1.247 jufi 1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1396: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1397: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1398: </strong></font><br>
1399:
1400: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1401: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1402: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1403: be a bit dry.
1404: <p>
1405:
1.247 jufi 1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1407: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1408: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1409: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1410: </strong></font><br>
1411: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1412: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1413: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1414: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1415: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1416: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1417: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1418: <p>
1419:
1.247 jufi 1420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1421: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1422: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1423: 2000
1.128 louis 1424: </strong></font><br>
1425:
1426: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1427: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1428: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1429: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1430: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1431: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1432: <p>
1433:
1.247 jufi 1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1435: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1436: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1437: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1438:
1439: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1440: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1441: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1442: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1443: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1444: <p>
1.110 louis 1445:
1.247 jufi 1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1447: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1448: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1449: </strong></font><br>
1450:
1451: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1452: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1453: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1454: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1455: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1456: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1457: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1458: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1459: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1460: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1461: <p>
1462:
1.247 jufi 1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1464: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1465: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1466:
1467: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1468: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1469: <p>
1.108 louis 1470:
1.247 jufi 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1472: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1473: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1474: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1475:
1476: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1477: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1478: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1479: <p>
1.106 louis 1480:
1.247 jufi 1481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1482: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1483: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1484: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1485:
1486: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1487: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1488: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1489: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1490: <p>
1.107 louis 1491:
1.247 jufi 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1493: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1494: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1495: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1496:
1497: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1498: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1499: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1500: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1501: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1502: <p>
1.105 louis 1503:
1.247 jufi 1504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1505: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1506: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1507: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1508:
1.113 naddy 1509: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1510: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1511: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1512: <p>
1.104 louis 1513:
1.247 jufi 1514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1515: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1516: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1517: </strong></font><br>
1518:
1519: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1520: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1521: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1522: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1523: <p>
1.247 jufi 1524: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1525:
1.85 louis 1526: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1527: <ul>
1.85 louis 1528:
1.247 jufi 1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1530: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1531: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1532: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1533:
1534: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1535: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1536: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1537: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1538: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1539: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1540: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1541: <p>
1.99 louis 1542:
1.247 jufi 1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1544: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1545: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1546: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1547:
1548: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1549: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1550: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1551: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1552: <p>
1.100 louis 1553:
1.247 jufi 1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1555: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1556: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1557: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1558:
1559: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1560: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1561: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1562: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1563: <p>
1.95 louis 1564:
1.247 jufi 1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1566: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1567: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1568: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1569:
1570: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1571: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1572: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1573: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1574: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1575: <p>
1.92 louis 1576:
1.247 jufi 1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1578: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1579: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1580: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1581:
1582: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1583: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1584: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1585: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1586: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1587: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1588: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1589: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1590: <p>
1.91 louis 1591:
1.247 jufi 1592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1593: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1594: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1595: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1596:
1597: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1598: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1599: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1600: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1601: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1602: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1603: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1604: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1605: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1606: <p>
1.90 louis 1607:
1.247 jufi 1608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1609: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1610: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1611: </strong></font><br>
1612: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1613: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1614: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1615: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1616: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1617: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1618: <p>
1619:
1.247 jufi 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1621: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1622: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1623: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1624:
1.113 naddy 1625: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1626: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1627: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1628: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1629: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1630: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1631: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1632: <p>
1.87 louis 1633:
1.247 jufi 1634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1635: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1636: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1637: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1638:
1639: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1640: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1641: <p>
1.85 louis 1642:
1.247 jufi 1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 1644: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1645: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1646: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1647:
1648: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1649: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1650: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1651: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1652: <p>
1.89 louis 1653:
1.247 jufi 1654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1655: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1656: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1657: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1658:
1659: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1660: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1661: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1662: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1663: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 1664: </ul>
1.85 louis 1665:
1.78 deraadt 1666: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1667: <ul>
1.74 louis 1668:
1.247 jufi 1669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1670: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1671: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1672: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1673: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1674:
1675: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1676: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1677: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1678: <p>
1.83 louis 1679:
1.247 jufi 1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 1681: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1682: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1683: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1684:
1685: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1686: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1687: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1688: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1689: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1690: <p>
1.93 louis 1691:
1.247 jufi 1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1693: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1694: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1695: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1696: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1697:
1.83 louis 1698: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1699: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1700: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1701: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1702: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1703: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1704: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1705: <p>
1.82 aaron 1706:
1.247 jufi 1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1708: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1709: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1710: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1711:
1.83 louis 1712: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1713: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1714: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1715: <p>
1.80 louis 1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1718: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1719: Bad Press</a>,
1720: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1721: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1722:
1723: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1724: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1725: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1726: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1727: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1728: <p>
1.247 jufi 1729: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 1730:
1731: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1732: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 1733:
1.247 jufi 1734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1735: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1736: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1737: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1738: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1739:
1740: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1741: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1742: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1743: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1744: <p>
1.74 louis 1745:
1.247 jufi 1746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 1747: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1748: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1749: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1750:
1.219 horacio 1751: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1752: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1753: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1754: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1755: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1756: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1757: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1758: <p>
1.88 louis 1759:
1.247 jufi 1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 1761: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1762: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1763: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1764:
1765: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1766: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1767: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1768: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1769: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1770: <p>
1.81 louis 1771:
1.247 jufi 1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1773: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1774: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1775: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1776:
1777: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1778: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1779: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1780: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1781: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1782: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1783: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1784: <p>
1.90 louis 1785:
1.247 jufi 1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1787: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1788: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1789: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1790:
1791: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1792: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1793: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1794: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1795: <p>
1.247 jufi 1796: </ul>
1.71 louis 1797:
1.69 deraadt 1798: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1799: <ul>
1.70 louis 1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1802: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1803: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1804: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1805:
1806: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1807: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1808: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1809: <p>
1.70 louis 1810:
1.247 jufi 1811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1812: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1813: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1814: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1815:
1816: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 1817: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 1818: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1819: <p>
1.68 louis 1820:
1.247 jufi 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1822: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1823: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1824: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1825: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1826:
1.111 jufi 1827: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1828: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1829: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1830: "secure by default" installation.
1831: <p>
1.64 louis 1832:
1.247 jufi 1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1834: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1835: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1836: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1837:
1.113 naddy 1838: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1839: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1840: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1841: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1842: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1843: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1844: <p>
1.66 louis 1845:
1.247 jufi 1846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1847: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1848: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1849: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1850:
1851: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1852: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1853: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1854: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1855: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1856: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1857: <p>
1.83 louis 1858:
1.247 jufi 1859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1860: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1861: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1862: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1863:
1864: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1865: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1866: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1867: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1868: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1869: <p>
1.64 louis 1870:
1.247 jufi 1871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1872: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1873: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1874: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1875:
1876: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1877: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1878: <p>
1.247 jufi 1879: </ul>
1.65 louis 1880:
1.69 deraadt 1881: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1882: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 1883:
1.247 jufi 1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1885: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1886: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1887: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1888:
1889: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1890: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1891: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1892: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1893: <p>
1.88 louis 1894:
1.247 jufi 1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1896: <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 1897: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1898:
1899: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1900: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1901: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1902: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1903: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1904: <p>
1.60 louis 1905:
1.247 jufi 1906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 1907: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1908: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1909: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1910: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1911:
1912: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1913: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1914: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1915: <p>
1.58 louis 1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 1918: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1919: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1920:
1921: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1922: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1923: <p>
1.53 louis 1924:
1.247 jufi 1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 1926: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1927: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1928: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1929:
1930: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1931: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1932: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.99 louis 1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 1936: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1937: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1938:
1939: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1940: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1941: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1942: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1943: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1944:
1.247 jufi 1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1946: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1947: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1948: </strong></font><br>
1949:
1950: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1951: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1952: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1953: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1954: <p>
1955:
1.247 jufi 1956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1957: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1958: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1959: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1960:
1961: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1962: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1963: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1964:
1.247 jufi 1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1966: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1967: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1968:
1969: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1970: in
1.247 jufi 1971: <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 1972: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1973: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1974: <p>
1.53 louis 1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1977: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1978: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1979: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1980: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1981:
1.58 louis 1982: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1983: <p>
1.247 jufi 1984: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 1985:
1.69 deraadt 1986: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 1987: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1990: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
1991: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
1992: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1993: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1994:
1.58 louis 1995: Kurt Seifried
1996: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1997: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1998: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1999: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2002: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2003: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2004: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2005:
2006: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2007: <p>
1.96 louis 2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2010: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2011: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2012: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2013:
2014: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2015: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2016: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2017: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2018: <p>
1.247 jufi 2019: </ul>
1.86 louis 2020:
1.69 deraadt 2021: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2022: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2023:
1.247 jufi 2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2025: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2026: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2027: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2028:
2029: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2030: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2031: <p>
1.61 louis 2032:
1.247 jufi 2033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2034: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2035: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2036: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2037: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2038:
2039: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2040: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2041: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2042: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2043: right -- or at least strives to".
2044: <p>
1.48 louis 2045:
1.247 jufi 2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2047: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2048: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2049: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2050: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2051: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2052: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2053: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.61 louis 2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <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 2057: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2058: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2059:
2060: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2061: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2062: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2063: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2064: <p>
1.46 louis 2065:
1.247 jufi 2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2067: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2068: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2069: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2070:
2071: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2072: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2073: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2074:
1.247 jufi 2075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2076: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2077: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2078: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2079:
2080: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2081: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2082: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2083: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2084: <p>
1.247 jufi 2085: </ul>
1.70 louis 2086:
1.69 deraadt 2087: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2088: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2091: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2092: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2093: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2094: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2095:
2096: Kurt Seifried
2097: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2098: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2099: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2100: <p>
1.44 philen 2101:
1.247 jufi 2102: <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 2103: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2104: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2105:
2106: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2107: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2108:
1.247 jufi 2109: <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 2110: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2111: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2112:
2113: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2114: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2115:
1.247 jufi 2116: <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 2117: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2118: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2119:
2120: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2121: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2122: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2123: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2124: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2125:
1.247 jufi 2126: <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 2127: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2128: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2129:
1.36 louis 2130: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2131: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2132:
1.247 jufi 2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2134: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2135: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2136: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2137:
2138: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2139: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2140: </ul>
1.38 louis 2141:
1.69 deraadt 2142: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2143: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2144:
1.247 jufi 2145: <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 2146: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2147: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2148:
2149: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2150: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2151: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2152:
1.113 naddy 2153: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2154: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2155: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2156: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2157:
2158: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2159: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2160: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2161: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2162: <blockquote>
2163: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2164: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2165: <br>
2166: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2167: </code>
2168: </blockquote>
2169: <p>
2170:
1.247 jufi 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2172: <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</strong></font><br>
2173: <p>
2174:
2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2176: <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
1.113 naddy 2177: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2178:
2179: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2180: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2181: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2182: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2183:
1.247 jufi 2184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2185: <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 2186: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2187:
2188: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2189: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2190: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2191: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2192: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2193: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2194: <p>
1.19 louis 2195:
1.113 naddy 2196: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2197: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2198: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2199:
2200: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2201: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2202: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2203: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2204: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2205: <p>
1.16 louis 2206:
1.247 jufi 2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2208: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2209: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2210: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2211:
1.57 louis 2212: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2213: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2214: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2215: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2216:
1.247 jufi 2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2218: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2219: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2220: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2221:
1.113 naddy 2222: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2223:
1.247 jufi 2224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2225: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2226: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2227: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2228:
1.23 louis 2229: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2230: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2231: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2232: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2233: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2234: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2237: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2238: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2239: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2240:
1.199 pvalchev 2241: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2242: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2243: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2244: installation.
1.113 naddy 2245: <p>
1.47 louis 2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2248: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2249: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2250: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2251:
2252: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2253: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2254: </ul>
1.57 louis 2255:
1.69 deraadt 2256: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2257: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2260: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2261: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2262: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2263:
2264: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2265: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2266: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2267: <p>
1.12 louis 2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2270: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2271: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2272: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2273:
2274: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2275: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2276: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2277: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2278: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2279: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2280: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2281: <p>
1.247 jufi 2282: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2283:
1.69 deraadt 2284: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2285: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2286:
1.247 jufi 2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2288: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2289: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2290:
2291: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2292: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2293: available."
1.113 naddy 2294: <p>
1.247 jufi 2295: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2296:
1.69 deraadt 2297: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2298: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2299:
1.247 jufi 2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2301: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2302: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2303:
2304: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2305: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2306: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2307: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2308: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2309: <p>
1.33 louis 2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2312: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2313: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2314: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2315:
1.113 naddy 2316: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2317: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2318: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2319: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2320: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2321: <p>
1.247 jufi 2322: </ul>
1.57 louis 2323:
1.69 deraadt 2324: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2325: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2326:
1.247 jufi 2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2328: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2329: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2330: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2331:
2332: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2333: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2334: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2335:
1.247 jufi 2336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2337: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2338: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2339: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2340: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2341:
2342: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2343: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2346: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2347:
1.113 naddy 2348: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2349:
1.247 jufi 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2351: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2352: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2353: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2354:
2355: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2356: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2357: </ul>
1.23 louis 2358:
1.69 deraadt 2359: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2360: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2361:
1.247 jufi 2362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2363: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2364: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2365:
2366: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2367: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2368: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2369:
1.247 jufi 2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2371: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2372: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2373: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2374:
2375: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2376: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2377: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2378: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2379: </ul>
1.57 louis 2380:
1.69 deraadt 2381: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2382: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2383:
1.247 jufi 2384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2385: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2386: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2387: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2388:
2389: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2390: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2391: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2392: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2393: <p>
1.15 louis 2394:
1.247 jufi 2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2396: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2397: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2398: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2399:
2400: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2401: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2402: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2403: columns."
1.113 naddy 2404: <p>
1.247 jufi 2405: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2406:
1.69 deraadt 2407: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2408: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2409:
1.247 jufi 2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2411: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2412: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2413: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2414:
2415: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2416: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2417:
1.113 naddy 2418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2419: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2420: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2421:
2422: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2423: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2424: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2425: </ul>
1.57 louis 2426:
1.69 deraadt 2427: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2428: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2429:
1.113 naddy 2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2431: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2432: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2433: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2434:
1.222 miod 2435: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2436: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2437: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2438: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2439: <p>
1.247 jufi 2440: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2441:
1.69 deraadt 2442: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2443: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2444:
1.247 jufi 2445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2446: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2447: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2448:
1.69 deraadt 2449: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2450: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2451: <p>
1.247 jufi 2452: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2453:
1.69 deraadt 2454: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2455: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2458: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2459: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2460: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2461:
2462: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2463: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2464: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2467: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2468: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2469: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2470: <p>
1.247 jufi 2471: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2472:
1.69 deraadt 2473: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2474: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2475:
1.247 jufi 2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2477: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2478: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2479: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2480: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2481: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2482:
2483: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2484: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2485: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2486: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2487: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2488: <p>
1.247 jufi 2489: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2490:
2491: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2492: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2495: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2496: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2497:
1.69 deraadt 2498: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2499: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2500: <p>
1.112 naddy 2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2503: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2504:
1.113 naddy 2505: <hr>
2506: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2507: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2508:
1.200 niklas 2509: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2510:
1.247 jufi 2511: <ul>
2512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2513: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2514: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2515:
2516: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2517: <p>
2518:
1.247 jufi 2519: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2520:
2521: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2522:
1.247 jufi 2523: <ul>
2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2525: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2526: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2527:
2528: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2529: <p>
2530:
1.247 jufi 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2532: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2533: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2534:
2535: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2536: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2537: <p>
2538:
1.247 jufi 2539: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2540:
2541: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2542:
1.247 jufi 2543: <ul>
2544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2545: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2546: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2547:
2548: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2549: <p>
2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2552:
1.102 niklas 2553: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2554:
1.247 jufi 2555: <ul>
2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2557: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2558: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2559:
2560: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2561: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2562: <p>
1.102 niklas 2563:
1.247 jufi 2564: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2565:
1.84 niklas 2566: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2567:
1.247 jufi 2568: <ul>
2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2570: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2571: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2572:
2573: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2574: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2575: <p>
1.84 niklas 2576:
1.247 jufi 2577: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2578:
1.69 deraadt 2579: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <ul>
2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2583: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2584: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2585:
1.222 miod 2586: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2587: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2588: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2589: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2592: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2593: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2594: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2595: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2596:
1.20 louis 2597: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2598: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2599: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2600: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2601: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2604:
1.113 naddy 2605: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2606: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2607: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2608:
2609:
2610: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2611: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2614: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2615: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2616:
2617: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2618: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2619: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2620:
2621: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2622: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2623:
1.247 jufi 2624: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2625:
2626:
1.170 louis 2627: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2628: <ul>
1.170 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 2631: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2632: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2633: </strong></font><br>
2634:
2635: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2636: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2637: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2638: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2639: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2640: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2641: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2642: <p>
1.247 jufi 2643: </ul>
1.170 louis 2644:
1.69 deraadt 2645: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2646: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2647:
1.247 jufi 2648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 2649: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2650: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2651: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2652:
2653: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2654: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2655: translating and reprinting articles from
2656: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2657: <p>
1.247 jufi 2658: </ul>
1.20 louis 2659:
1.113 naddy 2660: <hr>
2661: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 2662: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 2663:
1.246 jufi 2664: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2665: <ul>
2666: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2667: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
2668: December 04, 2002
2669: </strong></font><br>
2670: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2671: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2672: <p>
1.247 jufi 2673: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2674:
1.151 louis 2675: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2676: <ul>
1.151 louis 2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 2679: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2680: </strong></font><br>
2681:
2682: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2683: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2684: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2685: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2686: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2687: <p>
1.247 jufi 2688: </ul>
1.151 louis 2689:
1.72 louis 2690: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2691: <ul>
1.72 louis 2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2694: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2695: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2696: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2697:
1.101 jufi 2698: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2699: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2700: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2701: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2702: Giving way to
2703: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2704: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2705: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2706: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2707: <p>
1.247 jufi 2708: </ul>
1.72 louis 2709:
1.69 deraadt 2710: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2711: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2712:
1.247 jufi 2713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2714: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2715: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2716: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2717:
2718: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2719: <p>
1.247 jufi 2720: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2721:
1.50 louis 2722:
1.113 naddy 2723: <hr>
2724: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 2725: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 2726:
1.69 deraadt 2727: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2728: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2731: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2732: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2733: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2734:
2735: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2736: <p>
1.247 jufi 2737: </ul>
1.62 form 2738:
1.69 deraadt 2739: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2740: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2743: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2744: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 2745: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2746:
1.59 form 2747: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2748: <p>
1.112 naddy 2749:
1.247 jufi 2750: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2751:
1.113 naddy 2752: <hr>
2753: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 2754: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2755: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 2758: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2759: Radio, August 2, 2000
2760: </strong></font><br>
2761:
2762: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2763: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2764: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2765: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2766: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2767: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2768: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2769: <p>
2770:
1.247 jufi 2771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2772: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2773: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2774: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2775: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2776:
2777: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2778: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2779: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2780: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2781: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2782: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 2783: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 2784: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2785: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2786: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2787: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2788: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2789: <p>
1.247 jufi 2790: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 2791:
1.113 naddy 2792: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2793: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 2794: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 2795:
2796: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2797: <ul>
1.216 horacio 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 2800: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2801: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2802: </strong></font><br>
2803:
2804: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2805: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2806: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2807: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2808: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2809: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 2810: A
1.216 horacio 2811: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2812: <p>
1.247 jufi 2813: </ul>
1.216 horacio 2814:
2815:
2816: <hr>
2817: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 2818: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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