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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.247 jufi 33: <h3><font color="#e00000">English press coverage</font></h3><p>
1.16 louis 34:
1.253 ! ian 35: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
! 36: <ul>
! 37:
! 38: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 39: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
! 40: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
! 41: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003
! 42: </strong></font><br>
! 43: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
! 44: from US DARPA.
! 45: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
! 46: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
! 47: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
! 48: the BSD license.
! 49: <p>
! 50: </ul>
! 51:
1.251 ian 52: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
53: <ul>
54:
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
56: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
57: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
58: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003
59: </strong></font><br>
60: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
61: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
62: Mentions
63: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
64: and
65: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
66: programs.
67: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
68: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
69: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
70: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
71: <p>
72: </ul>
73:
1.249 jufi 74: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
75: <ul>
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
77: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
78: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
79: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003
80: </strong></font><br>
81: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
82: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
83: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
84: <p>
85: </ul>
86:
1.246 jufi 87: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 88: <ul>
1.246 jufi 89:
1.247 jufi 90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 91: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
92: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>, CNET News.com, December 04, 2002
93: </strong></font><br>
94: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
95: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
96: <p>
97:
1.247 jufi 98: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 99: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
100: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>, eWeek, December 03, 2002
101: </strong></font><br>
102: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
103: in their annual OpenHack security test.
104: <p>
1.247 jufi 105: </ul>
1.246 jufi 106:
1.244 jufi 107: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 108: <ul>
1.246 jufi 109:
1.247 jufi 110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 111: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
112: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
113: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
114: <br>
115: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002
116: </strong></font><br>
117: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
118: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
119: md5 digests.
120: <p>
121:
1.247 jufi 122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 123: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.246 jufi 124: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>, eWeek, October 18, 2002
1.244 jufi 125: </strong></font><br>
126: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
127: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
128: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
129: right the first time."
130: <p>
1.247 jufi 131: </ul>
1.244 jufi 132:
133:
134: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 135: <ul>
1.244 jufi 136:
1.247 jufi 137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 138: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
139: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF
140: Logs</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002
141: </strong></font><br>
142: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
143: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
144: part 6</a>.
145: <p>
146:
1.247 jufi 147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 148: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
149: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002
150: </strong></font><br>
151: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
152: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
153: <p>
1.247 jufi 154: </ul>
1.242 jufi 155:
156: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 157: <ul>
1.242 jufi 158:
1.247 jufi 159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 160: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
161: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>, O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002
162: </strong></font><br>
163: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
164: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
165: <p>
166:
1.247 jufi 167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 168: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
169: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>, Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002
170: </strong></font><br>
171: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
172: this time using pf.
173: <p>
1.247 jufi 174: </ul>
1.242 jufi 175:
176: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 177: <ul>
1.242 jufi 178:
1.247 jufi 179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 180: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
181: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002
182: </strong></font><br>
183: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
184: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
185: their rotation.
186: <p>
187:
1.247 jufi 188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 189: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
190: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002
191: </strong></font><br>
192: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
193: <p>
1.247 jufi 194: </ul>
1.242 jufi 195:
1.239 jufi 196: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 197: <ul>
1.239 jufi 198:
1.247 jufi 199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 200: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
201: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002
202: </strong></font><br>
203: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
204: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
205: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
206: <p>
207:
1.247 jufi 208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 209: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
210: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002
211: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 212: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
213: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
214: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 215: <p>
1.247 jufi 216: </ul>
1.239 jufi 217:
1.235 lebel 218: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 219: <ul>
1.235 lebel 220:
1.239 jufi 221:
1.247 jufi 222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 223: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
224: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>, ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002
225: </strong></font><br>
226: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
227: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
228: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
229: <p>
1.247 jufi 230: </ul>
1.235 lebel 231:
1.228 horacio 232: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 233: <ul>
1.228 horacio 234:
1.247 jufi 235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 236: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
237: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>, O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
238: </strong></font><br>
239: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
240: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
241: <p>
242:
1.247 jufi 243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 244: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
245: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
246: </strong></font><br>
247: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
248: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
249: <p>
250:
1.247 jufi 251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 252: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
253: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
254: </strong></font><br>
255: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
256: on the desktop of his parents.
257: <p>
258:
1.247 jufi 259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 260: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 261: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 262: </strong></font><br>
263: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
264: using IPFilter.
265:
266: <p>
267:
1.247 jufi 268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 269: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
270: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
271: </strong></font><br>
272: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
273: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
274: perspectives of the four OS.
275: <br>
276: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 277: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 278: <p>
279:
1.247 jufi 280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 281: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
282: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
283: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
284: </strong></font><br>
285:
286: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
287: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
288: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
289: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
290: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
291: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
292: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
293: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
294: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
295: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
296: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
297: security conscious team beyond doubt.
298: <p>
1.247 jufi 299: </ul>
1.228 horacio 300:
1.225 horacio 301: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 302: <ul>
1.225 horacio 303:
1.247 jufi 304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 305: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
306: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 307: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 308: </strong></font><br>
309:
310: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
311: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
312: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 313: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 314: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
315: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
316: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
317: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
318: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 319: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 320: of choice.
321: <p>
1.247 jufi 322: </ul>
1.225 horacio 323:
324: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 325: <ul>
1.225 horacio 326:
1.247 jufi 327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 328: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
329: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
330: </strong></font><br>
331:
332: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
333: <p>
334:
1.247 jufi 335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 336: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.245 jufi 337: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 338: </strong></font><br>
339:
340: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
341: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
342: <p>
1.247 jufi 343: </ul>
1.225 horacio 344:
1.218 horacio 345: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 346: <ul>
1.218 horacio 347:
1.247 jufi 348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 349: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
350: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
351: </strong></font><br>
352:
353: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
354: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
355: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
356: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
357: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
358: subjects. Worth a read.
359: <p>
360:
361:
1.247 jufi 362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 363: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 364: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 365: </strong></font><br>
366:
367: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
368: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
369: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
370: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
371: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
372: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
373: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
374: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
375: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 376: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 377: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
378: on other operating systems.<br>
379: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
380: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
381: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
382: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
383: <p>
384:
1.247 jufi 385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 386: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
387: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
388: </strong></font><br>
389:
390: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
391: covering the level of software integration into the core
392: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
393: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
394: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
395: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
396: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
397: <p>
398:
1.247 jufi 399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 400: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
401: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
402: </strong></font><br>
403:
404: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
405: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
406: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
407: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
408: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
409: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
410: <p>
1.247 jufi 411: </ul>
1.221 horacio 412:
1.210 jufi 413: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 414: <ul>
1.215 horacio 415:
1.247 jufi 416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 417: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
418: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
419: </strong></font><br>
420:
421: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
422: source software in response to an article which claimed that
423: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
424: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
425: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
426: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
427: <p>
428:
1.247 jufi 429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 430: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 431: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
432: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 433:
1.224 horacio 434: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
435: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
436: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
437: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
438: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
439: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 440: <p>
1.247 jufi 441: </ul>
1.215 horacio 442:
443: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 444: <ul>
1.215 horacio 445:
1.247 jufi 446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 447: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
448: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
449: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
450: </strong></font><br>
451:
452: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
453: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 454: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 455: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
456: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
457: investment</em>.<br>
458: The implementation details can be seen on their
459: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
460: <p>
461:
1.247 jufi 462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 463: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
464: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
465: </strong></font><br>
466:
467: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
468: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
469: security and says that even secured operating systems running
470: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
471: to time.<br>
472: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
473: system and just the most secure system.
474: <p>
475:
1.247 jufi 476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 477: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
478: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
479: </strong></font><br>
480:
481: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
482: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
483: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
484: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
485: choice:<br>
486: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
487: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
488: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
489: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
490: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
491: network security devices and as such must be well
492: armored."</em><br>
493: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
494: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
495: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
496: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
497: <br>
498: Bravo!
499: <p>
1.247 jufi 500: </ul>
1.210 jufi 501:
1.207 ian 502: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 503: <ul>
1.215 horacio 504:
1.247 jufi 505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 506: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
507: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
508: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 509:
1.207 ian 510: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
511: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 512: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 513: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
514: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
515: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 516: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 517: <p>
1.247 jufi 518: </ul>
1.207 ian 519:
1.194 jufi 520: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 521: <ul>
1.194 jufi 522:
1.247 jufi 523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 524: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
525: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
526: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 527:
1.240 miod 528: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 529: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
530: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
531: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
532: <p>
533:
1.247 jufi 534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 535: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 536: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
537: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
538: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 539:
1.240 miod 540: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 541: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 542: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
543: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
544: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 545: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 546: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
547: <br>
548: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
549: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
550: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
551: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
552: <p>
553:
1.247 jufi 554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 555: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
556: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 557: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 558: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 559:
1.194 jufi 560: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
561: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
562: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
563: <br>
564: The new
565: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 566: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 567: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
568: <p>
1.247 jufi 569: </ul>
1.194 jufi 570:
1.190 horacio 571: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 572: <ul>
1.190 horacio 573:
1.247 jufi 574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 575:
576: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
577: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
578:
579: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
580: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
581:
582: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
583: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
584:
1.212 horacio 585: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
586: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 587: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
588:
1.211 horacio 589: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
590: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 591: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
592:
1.247 jufi 593: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 594: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
595:
1.247 jufi 596: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 597: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
598:
1.212 horacio 599: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
600: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 601: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
602:
603: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
604: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
605:
606: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
607: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
608:
609: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
610: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
611:
612: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 613: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 614:
1.192 jufi 615: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
616: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 617: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 618:
1.193 deraadt 619: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
620: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 621: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 622:
1.247 jufi 623: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 624: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
625:
1.247 jufi 626: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 627: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
628: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
629:
1.213 horacio 630: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 631: 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 632: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
633:
1.190 horacio 634: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 635: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
636: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
637: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
638: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
639: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
640: <p>
1.190 horacio 641:
1.247 jufi 642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 643: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
644: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
645: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 646: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 647:
1.195 jufi 648: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 649: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
650: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
651: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 652: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
653: <p>
654:
1.247 jufi 655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 656: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 657: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
658: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
659: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 660:
1.191 jufi 661: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
662: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
663: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
664: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 665: <p>
1.247 jufi 666: </ul>
1.190 horacio 667:
1.191 jufi 668:
1.186 jufi 669: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 670: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 671:
1.247 jufi 672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 673: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 674: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
675: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 676: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 677:
1.188 jufi 678: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 679: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 680: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 681: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
682: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 683: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 684: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 685: <p>
686:
1.191 jufi 687:
1.247 jufi 688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 689: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
690: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
691: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 692: </strong></font><br>
693:
694: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
695: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
696: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
697: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
698: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
699: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
700: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
701: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
702: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
703: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
704: familiar?
705: <p>
1.247 jufi 706: </ul>
1.191 jufi 707:
1.178 louis 708: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 709: <ul>
1.178 louis 710:
1.247 jufi 711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 712: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
713: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 714: </strong></font><br>
715:
716: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
717: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
718: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
719: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
720: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
721: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
722: <p>
723:
1.247 jufi 724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 725: <a
1.182 louis 726: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
727: </strong></font><br>
728:
729: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
730: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
731: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
732: <p>
733:
1.247 jufi 734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.182 louis 735: <a
1.179 louis 736: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
737: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
738: </strong></font><br>
739:
740: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
741: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
742: <p>
1.247 jufi 743: </ul>
1.179 louis 744:
1.174 louis 745:
1.175 louis 746: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 747: <ul>
1.175 louis 748:
1.247 jufi 749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 750: <a
1.179 louis 751: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
752: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
753: </strong></font><br>
754:
755: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
756: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
757: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
758: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
759: <p>
760:
1.247 jufi 761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 762: <a
1.183 ian 763: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 764: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
765: </strong></font><br>
766:
767: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 768: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 769: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
770: <p>
1.247 jufi 771: </ul>
1.175 louis 772:
1.176 louis 773:
1.172 mickey 774: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 775: <ul>
1.172 mickey 776:
1.247 jufi 777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.180 louis 778: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 779: </strong></font><br>
780:
781: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
782: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
783: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 784: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 785: <p>
786:
1.247 jufi 787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 788: <a
1.174 louis 789: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
790: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
791: </strong></font><br>
792:
793: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
794: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
795: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
796: <p>
797:
1.247 jufi 798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 799: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
800: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
801: </strong></font><br>
802:
803: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
804: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
805: <p>
806:
1.247 jufi 807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 808: <a
809: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
810: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
811: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
812: </strong></font><br>
813:
814: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
815: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
816: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
817: our own Theo de Raadt.
818: <p>
819:
1.247 jufi 820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 821: <a
822: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
823: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
824: </strong></font><br>
825:
826: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
827: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
828: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
829: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
830: shut down.]
831: <p>
832:
1.247 jufi 833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 834: <a
1.226 horacio 835: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
836: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 837: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 838: </strong></font><br>
839:
840: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
841: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
842: <p>
1.247 jufi 843: </ul>
1.172 mickey 844:
1.161 louis 845: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 846: <ul>
1.161 louis 847:
1.247 jufi 848: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 849: <a
850: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
851: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
852: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
853: </strong></font><br>
854:
855: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
856: by John Wolley
857: <p>
858:
1.247 jufi 859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 860: <a
861: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
862: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
863: </strong></font><br>
864:
865: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
866: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
867: OpenBSD).
868: <p>
869:
1.247 jufi 870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 871: <a
1.247 jufi 872: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 873: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
874: </strong></font><br>
875:
876: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
877: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
878: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
879: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
880: and hindsight.
881: <p>
882:
1.247 jufi 883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 884: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
885: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
886: </strong></font><br>
887:
888: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
889: <p>
890:
1.247 jufi 891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 892: <a
1.168 provos 893: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
894: December 7, 2000
895: </strong></font><br>
896:
897: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
898: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
899: us explain.
900: <p>
901:
1.247 jufi 902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 903: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
904: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 905: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 906: December 6, 2000
907: </strong></font><br>
908:
909: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
910: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
911: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
912: <p>
913:
1.247 jufi 914: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 915: <a
1.226 horacio 916: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
917: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 918: </strong></font><br>
919:
920: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 921: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 922: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 923: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
924: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
925: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 926: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 927: <p>
1.162 millert 928:
1.247 jufi 929: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 930: <a
1.161 louis 931: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
932: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
933: </strong></font><br>
934:
935: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
936: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
937: <p>
938:
1.247 jufi 939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 940: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
941: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
942: </strong></font><br>
943:
944: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
945: <p>
946:
947:
1.247 jufi 948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 949: <a
1.226 horacio 950: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
951: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
952: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 953: </strong></font><br>
954:
955: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
956: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
957: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
958: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
959: <p>
1.247 jufi 960: </ul>
1.169 louis 961:
1.158 louis 962: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 963: <ul>
1.147 louis 964:
1.247 jufi 965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 966: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
967: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 968: </strong></font><br>
969:
970: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
971: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
972: <p>
973:
1.247 jufi 974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 975: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
976: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
977: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 978: </strong></font><br>
979: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
980: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
981: <p>
982:
1.247 jufi 983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 984: <a
985: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
986: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
987: </strong></font><br>
988:
989: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
990: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
991: <p>
992:
1.247 jufi 993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 994: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 995: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
996: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 997:
1.213 horacio 998: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 999: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1000: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1001: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1002: <p>
1.215 horacio 1003:
1.247 jufi 1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1005: <a
1006: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1007: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1008: </strong></font><br>
1009:
1010: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1011: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1012: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1013: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1014: much of the attitude too).
1015: <p>
1.161 louis 1016:
1.247 jufi 1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1018: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1019: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1020: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1021:
1.157 louis 1022: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1023: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1024: <p>
1.247 jufi 1025: </ul>
1.157 louis 1026:
1027: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1028: <ul>
1.157 louis 1029:
1.247 jufi 1030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1031: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1032: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1033: </strong></font><br>
1034:
1035: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1036: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1037: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1038: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1039: <p>
1040:
1.247 jufi 1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1042: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1043: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1044: </strong></font><br>
1045:
1046: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1047: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1048: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1049: it because they love coding...
1050: <p>
1051:
1.247 jufi 1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1053: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1054: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1055: </strong></font><br>
1056:
1057: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1058: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1059: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1060: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1061: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1062: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1063: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1064: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1065: <p>
1066:
1.247 jufi 1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1068: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1069: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1070: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1071: </strong></font><br>
1072:
1073: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1074: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1075: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1076: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1077: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1078: the pizza.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.247 jufi 1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1082: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1083: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1084: </strong></font><br>
1085:
1086: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1087: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1088: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1089: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1090: problems.
1091: <p>
1092:
1.247 jufi 1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1094: <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 1095: </strong></font><br>
1096:
1.222 miod 1097: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1098: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1099: - whether they like it or not.
1100: <p>
1101:
1.247 jufi 1102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1103: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1104: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1105: </strong></font><br>
1106:
1107: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1108: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1109: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1110: <p>
1.148 aaron 1111:
1.247 jufi 1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1113: <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 1114: </strong></font><br>
1115:
1116: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1117: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1118: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1119: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1120: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1121: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1122: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1123: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1124: <p>
1125:
1.247 jufi 1126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1127: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1128: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1129: </strong></font><br>
1130:
1131: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1132: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1133: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1134: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1135: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1136: <p>
1.247 jufi 1137: </ul>
1.147 louis 1138:
1.138 louis 1139: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1140: <ul>
1.138 louis 1141:
1.247 jufi 1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1143: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1144: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1145: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1146: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1147: </strong></font><br>
1148:
1.227 horacio 1149: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1150: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1151: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1152: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1153: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1154: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1155: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1156: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1157: <p>
1158:
1.247 jufi 1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1160: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1161: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1162: </strong></font><br>
1163:
1164: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1165: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1166: groups, and even Linux.
1167: <p>
1168:
1.247 jufi 1169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1170: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1171: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1172: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1173: </strong></font><br>
1174:
1175: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1176: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1177: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1178: library after installing the OS.
1179: <p>
1180:
1.247 jufi 1181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1182: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1183: Sys Admin, September 2000
1184: </strong></font><br>
1185:
1186: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1187: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1188: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1189: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1190: (<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>,
1191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1192: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1193: <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 1194: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1195: out of the system.
1196: <p>
1197:
1.247 jufi 1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1199: <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
1200: </strong></font><br>
1201:
1202: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1203: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1204: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1205: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1206: the IP filtering and address translation.
1207: <p>
1.247 jufi 1208: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1209:
1.131 louis 1210: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1211: <ul>
1.131 louis 1212:
1.247 jufi 1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1214: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1215: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1216: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1217: </strong></font><br>
1218:
1219: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1220: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1221: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1222: <p>
1223:
1.247 jufi 1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1225: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1226: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1227: </strong></font><br>
1228:
1229: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1230: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1231: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1232: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1233: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1234: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1235: note of"</i>.
1236: <p>
1237:
1.247 jufi 1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1239: <a
1.247 jufi 1240: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1241: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1242: </strong></font><br>
1243:
1244: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1245: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1246: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1247: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1248: <p>
1249:
1.247 jufi 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1251: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1252: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1253: </strong></font><br>
1254:
1255: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1256: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1257: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1258: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1259: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1260: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1261: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1262: <p>
1263:
1.247 jufi 1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1265: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1266: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1267: 2000
1268: </strong></font><br>
1269:
1270: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1271: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1272: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1273: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1274: against current industry practices.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.247 jufi 1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1278: <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
1279: </strong></font><br>
1280:
1281: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1282: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1283: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1284: <p>
1285:
1.247 jufi 1286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1287: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1288: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1289: </strong></font><br>
1290:
1291: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1292: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1293: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1294: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1295: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1296: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1297: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1298: <p>
1299:
1.247 jufi 1300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1301: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1302: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1303: </strong></font><br>
1304:
1305: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1306: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1307: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1308: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1309: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1310: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1311: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1312: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1313: <p>
1.247 jufi 1314: </ul>
1.131 louis 1315:
1.118 louis 1316: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1317: <ul>
1.118 louis 1318:
1.247 jufi 1319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1320: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1321: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1322: </strong></font><br>
1323:
1324: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1325: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1326: about time. The article mentions that
1327: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1328: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1329: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1330: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1331: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1332: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1333: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1334: <p>
1335:
1.247 jufi 1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1337: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1338: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1339: </strong></font><br>
1340:
1341: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1342: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1343: of OpenSSH.
1344: <p>
1345:
1.247 jufi 1346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1347: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1348: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1349: </strong></font><br>
1350:
1351: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1352: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1353: bridging.
1354: <p>
1355:
1.247 jufi 1356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1357: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1358: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1359: </strong></font><br>
1360:
1.121 deraadt 1361: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1362: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1363: <p>
1364:
1.247 jufi 1365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1366: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1367: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1368: </strong></font><br>
1369:
1370: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1371: <p>
1372:
1.247 jufi 1373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1374: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1375: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1376: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1377: </strong></font><br>
1378:
1.120 deraadt 1379: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1380: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1381: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1382: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1383: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1384: <p>
1385:
1.247 jufi 1386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1387: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1388: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1389: </strong></font><br>
1390:
1.222 miod 1391: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1392: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1393: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1394: protocols and their quirks.
1395: <p>
1396:
1.247 jufi 1397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1398: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1399: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1400: </strong></font><br>
1401:
1402: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1403: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1404: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1405: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1406: <p>
1407:
1.247 jufi 1408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1409: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1410: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1411: </strong></font><br>
1412:
1413: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1414: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1415: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1416: <p>
1417:
1.247 jufi 1418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1419: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1420: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1421: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1422: </strong></font><br>
1423:
1424: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1425: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1426: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1427: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1428: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1429: <p>
1.247 jufi 1430: </ul>
1.118 louis 1431:
1.104 louis 1432: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1433: <ul>
1.104 louis 1434:
1.247 jufi 1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1436: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1437: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1438: </strong></font><br>
1439:
1440: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1441: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1442: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1443: be a bit dry.
1444: <p>
1445:
1.247 jufi 1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1447: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1448: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1449: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1450: </strong></font><br>
1451: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1452: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1453: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1454: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1455: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1456: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1457: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1458: <p>
1459:
1.247 jufi 1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1461: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1462: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1463: 2000
1.128 louis 1464: </strong></font><br>
1465:
1466: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1467: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1468: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1469: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1470: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1471: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1472: <p>
1473:
1.247 jufi 1474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1475: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1476: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1477: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1478:
1479: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1480: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1481: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1482: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1483: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1484: <p>
1.110 louis 1485:
1.247 jufi 1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1487: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1488: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1489: </strong></font><br>
1490:
1491: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1492: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1493: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1494: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1495: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1496: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1497: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1498: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1499: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1500: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1501: <p>
1502:
1.247 jufi 1503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1504: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1505: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1506:
1507: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1508: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1509: <p>
1.108 louis 1510:
1.247 jufi 1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1512: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1513: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1514: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1515:
1516: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1517: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1518: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1519: <p>
1.106 louis 1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1522: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1523: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1524: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1525:
1526: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1527: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1528: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1529: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1530: <p>
1.107 louis 1531:
1.247 jufi 1532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1533: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1534: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1535: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1536:
1537: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1538: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1539: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1540: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1541: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1542: <p>
1.105 louis 1543:
1.247 jufi 1544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1545: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1546: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1547: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1548:
1.113 naddy 1549: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1550: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1551: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1552: <p>
1.104 louis 1553:
1.247 jufi 1554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1555: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1556: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1557: </strong></font><br>
1558:
1559: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1560: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1561: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1562: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1563: <p>
1.247 jufi 1564: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1565:
1.85 louis 1566: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1567: <ul>
1.85 louis 1568:
1.247 jufi 1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1570: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1571: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1572: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1573:
1574: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1575: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1576: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1577: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1578: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1579: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1580: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1581: <p>
1.99 louis 1582:
1.247 jufi 1583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1584: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1585: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1586: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1587:
1588: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1589: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1590: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1591: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1592: <p>
1.100 louis 1593:
1.247 jufi 1594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1595: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1596: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1597: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1598:
1599: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1600: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1601: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1602: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1603: <p>
1.95 louis 1604:
1.247 jufi 1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1606: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1607: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1608: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1609:
1610: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1611: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1612: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1613: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1614: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1615: <p>
1.92 louis 1616:
1.247 jufi 1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1618: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1619: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1620: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1621:
1622: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1623: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1624: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1625: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1626: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1627: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1628: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1629: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1630: <p>
1.91 louis 1631:
1.247 jufi 1632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1633: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1634: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1635: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1636:
1637: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1638: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1639: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1640: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1641: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1642: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1643: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1644: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1645: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1646: <p>
1.90 louis 1647:
1.247 jufi 1648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1649: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1650: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1651: </strong></font><br>
1652: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1653: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1654: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1655: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1656: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1657: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1658: <p>
1659:
1.247 jufi 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1661: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1662: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1663: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1664:
1.113 naddy 1665: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1666: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1667: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1668: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1669: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1670: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1671: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1672: <p>
1.87 louis 1673:
1.247 jufi 1674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1675: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1676: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1677: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1678:
1679: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1680: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1681: <p>
1.85 louis 1682:
1.247 jufi 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 1684: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1685: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1686: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1687:
1688: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1689: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1690: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1691: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1692: <p>
1.89 louis 1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1695: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1696: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1697: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1698:
1699: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1700: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1701: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1702: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1703: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 1704: </ul>
1.85 louis 1705:
1.78 deraadt 1706: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1707: <ul>
1.74 louis 1708:
1.247 jufi 1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1710: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1711: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1712: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1713: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1714:
1715: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1716: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1717: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1718: <p>
1.83 louis 1719:
1.247 jufi 1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 1721: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1722: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1723: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1724:
1725: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1726: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1727: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1728: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1729: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1730: <p>
1.93 louis 1731:
1.247 jufi 1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1733: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1734: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1735: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1736: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1737:
1.83 louis 1738: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1739: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1740: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1741: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1742: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1743: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1744: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1745: <p>
1.82 aaron 1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1748: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1749: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1750: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1751:
1.83 louis 1752: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1753: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1754: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1755: <p>
1.80 louis 1756:
1.247 jufi 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1758: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1759: Bad Press</a>,
1760: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1761: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1762:
1763: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1764: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1765: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1766: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1767: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1768: <p>
1.247 jufi 1769: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 1770:
1771: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1772: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 1773:
1.247 jufi 1774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1775: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1776: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1777: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1778: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1779:
1780: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1781: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1782: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1783: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1784: <p>
1.74 louis 1785:
1.247 jufi 1786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 1787: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1788: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1789: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1790:
1.219 horacio 1791: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1792: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1793: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1794: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1795: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1796: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1797: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1798: <p>
1.88 louis 1799:
1.247 jufi 1800: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 1801: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1802: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1803: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1804:
1805: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1806: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1807: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1808: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1809: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1810: <p>
1.81 louis 1811:
1.247 jufi 1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1813: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1814: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1815: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1816:
1817: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1818: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1819: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1820: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1821: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1822: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1823: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1824: <p>
1.90 louis 1825:
1.247 jufi 1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1827: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1828: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1829: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1830:
1831: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1832: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1833: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1834: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1835: <p>
1.247 jufi 1836: </ul>
1.71 louis 1837:
1.69 deraadt 1838: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1839: <ul>
1.70 louis 1840:
1.247 jufi 1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1842: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1843: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1844: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1845:
1846: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1847: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1848: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1849: <p>
1.70 louis 1850:
1.247 jufi 1851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1852: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1853: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1854: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1855:
1856: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 1857: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 1858: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1859: <p>
1.68 louis 1860:
1.247 jufi 1861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1862: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1863: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1864: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1865: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1866:
1.111 jufi 1867: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1868: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1869: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1870: "secure by default" installation.
1871: <p>
1.64 louis 1872:
1.247 jufi 1873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1874: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1875: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1877:
1.113 naddy 1878: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1879: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1880: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1881: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1882: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1883: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1884: <p>
1.66 louis 1885:
1.247 jufi 1886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1887: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1888: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1889: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1890:
1891: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1892: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1893: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1894: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1895: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1896: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1897: <p>
1.83 louis 1898:
1.247 jufi 1899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1900: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1901: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1902: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1903:
1904: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1905: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1906: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1907: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1908: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1909: <p>
1.64 louis 1910:
1.247 jufi 1911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1912: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1913: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1914: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1915:
1916: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1917: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1918: <p>
1.247 jufi 1919: </ul>
1.65 louis 1920:
1.69 deraadt 1921: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1922: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 1923:
1.247 jufi 1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1925: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1926: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1927: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1928:
1929: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1930: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1931: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1932: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.88 louis 1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1936: <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 1937: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1938:
1939: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1940: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1941: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1942: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1943: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1944: <p>
1.60 louis 1945:
1.247 jufi 1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 1947: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1948: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1949: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1950: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1951:
1952: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1953: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1954: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1955: <p>
1.58 louis 1956:
1.247 jufi 1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 1958: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1959: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1960:
1961: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1962: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1963: <p>
1.53 louis 1964:
1.247 jufi 1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 1966: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1967: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1968: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1969:
1970: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1971: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1972: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1973: <p>
1.99 louis 1974:
1.247 jufi 1975: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 1976: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1977: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1978:
1979: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1980: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1981: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1982: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1983: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1984:
1.247 jufi 1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1986: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1987: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1988: </strong></font><br>
1989:
1990: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1991: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1992: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1993: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1994: <p>
1995:
1.247 jufi 1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1997: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1998: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1999: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2000:
2001: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2002: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2003: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2004:
1.247 jufi 2005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2006: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2007: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2008:
2009: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2010: in
1.247 jufi 2011: <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 2012: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2013: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2014: <p>
1.53 louis 2015:
1.247 jufi 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2017: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2018: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2019: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2020: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2021:
1.58 louis 2022: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2023: <p>
1.247 jufi 2024: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2025:
1.69 deraadt 2026: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2027: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2028:
1.247 jufi 2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2030: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2031: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2032: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2033: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2034:
1.58 louis 2035: Kurt Seifried
2036: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2037: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2038: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2039: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2040:
1.247 jufi 2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2042: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2043: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2044: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2045:
2046: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2047: <p>
1.96 louis 2048:
1.247 jufi 2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2050: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2051: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2052: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2053:
2054: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2055: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2056: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2057: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2058: <p>
1.247 jufi 2059: </ul>
1.86 louis 2060:
1.69 deraadt 2061: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2062: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2063:
1.247 jufi 2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2065: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2066: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2067: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2068:
2069: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2070: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2071: <p>
1.61 louis 2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2074: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2075: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2076: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2077: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2078:
2079: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2080: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2081: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2082: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2083: right -- or at least strives to".
2084: <p>
1.48 louis 2085:
1.247 jufi 2086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2087: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2088: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2089: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2090: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2091: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2092: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2093: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2094: <p>
1.61 louis 2095:
1.247 jufi 2096: <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 2097: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2098: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2099:
2100: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2101: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2102: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2103: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2104: <p>
1.46 louis 2105:
1.247 jufi 2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2107: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2108: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2109: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2110:
2111: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2112: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2113: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2114:
1.247 jufi 2115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2116: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2117: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2118: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2119:
2120: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2121: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2122: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2123: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2124: <p>
1.247 jufi 2125: </ul>
1.70 louis 2126:
1.69 deraadt 2127: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2128: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2129:
1.247 jufi 2130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2131: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2132: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2133: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2134: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2135:
2136: Kurt Seifried
2137: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2138: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2139: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2140: <p>
1.44 philen 2141:
1.247 jufi 2142: <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 2143: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2144: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2145:
2146: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2147: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2148:
1.247 jufi 2149: <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 2150: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2151: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2152:
2153: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2154: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2155:
1.247 jufi 2156: <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 2157: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2158: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2159:
2160: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2161: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2162: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2163: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2164: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2165:
1.247 jufi 2166: <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 2167: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2168: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2169:
1.36 louis 2170: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2171: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2172:
1.247 jufi 2173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2174: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2175: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2176: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2177:
2178: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2179: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2180: </ul>
1.38 louis 2181:
1.69 deraadt 2182: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2183: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2184:
1.247 jufi 2185: <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 2186: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2187: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2188:
2189: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2190: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2191: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2192:
1.113 naddy 2193: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2194: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2195: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2196: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2197:
2198: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2199: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2200: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2201: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2202: <blockquote>
2203: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2204: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2205: <br>
2206: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2207: </code>
2208: </blockquote>
2209: <p>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2212: <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>
2213: <p>
2214:
2215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2216: <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 2217: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2218:
2219: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2220: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2221: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2222: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2223:
1.247 jufi 2224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2225: <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 2226: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2227:
2228: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2229: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2230: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2231: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2232: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2233: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2234: <p>
1.19 louis 2235:
1.113 naddy 2236: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2237: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2238: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2239:
2240: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2241: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2242: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2243: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2244: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2245: <p>
1.16 louis 2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2248: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2249: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2250: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2251:
1.57 louis 2252: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2253: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2254: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2255: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2258: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2259: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2260: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2261:
1.113 naddy 2262: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2263:
1.247 jufi 2264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2265: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2266: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2267: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2268:
1.23 louis 2269: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2270: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2271: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2272: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2273: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2274: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2277: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2278: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2279: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2280:
1.199 pvalchev 2281: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2282: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2283: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2284: installation.
1.113 naddy 2285: <p>
1.47 louis 2286:
1.247 jufi 2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2288: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2289: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2290: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2291:
2292: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2293: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2294: </ul>
1.57 louis 2295:
1.69 deraadt 2296: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2297: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2300: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2301: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2302: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2303:
2304: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2305: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2306: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2307: <p>
1.12 louis 2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2310: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2311: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2312: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2313:
2314: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2315: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2316: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2317: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2318: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2319: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2320: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2321: <p>
1.247 jufi 2322: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2323:
1.69 deraadt 2324: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2325: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2326:
1.247 jufi 2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2328: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2329: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2330:
2331: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2332: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2333: available."
1.113 naddy 2334: <p>
1.247 jufi 2335: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2336:
1.69 deraadt 2337: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2338: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2339:
1.247 jufi 2340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2341: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2342: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2343:
2344: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2345: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2346: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2347: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2348: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2349: <p>
1.33 louis 2350:
1.247 jufi 2351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2352: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2353: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2354: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2355:
1.113 naddy 2356: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2357: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2358: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2359: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2360: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2361: <p>
1.247 jufi 2362: </ul>
1.57 louis 2363:
1.69 deraadt 2364: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2365: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2366:
1.247 jufi 2367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2368: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2369: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2370: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2371:
2372: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2373: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2374: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2375:
1.247 jufi 2376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2377: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2378: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2379: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2380: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2381:
2382: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2383: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2386: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2387:
1.113 naddy 2388: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2389:
1.247 jufi 2390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2391: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2392: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2393: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2394:
2395: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2396: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2397: </ul>
1.23 louis 2398:
1.69 deraadt 2399: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2400: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2401:
1.247 jufi 2402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2403: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2404: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2405:
2406: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2407: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2408: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2409:
1.247 jufi 2410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2411: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2412: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2413: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2414:
2415: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2416: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2417: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2418: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2419: </ul>
1.57 louis 2420:
1.69 deraadt 2421: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2422: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2423:
1.247 jufi 2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2425: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2426: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2427: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2428:
2429: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2430: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2431: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2432: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2433: <p>
1.15 louis 2434:
1.247 jufi 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2436: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2437: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2438: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2439:
2440: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2441: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2442: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2443: columns."
1.113 naddy 2444: <p>
1.247 jufi 2445: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2446:
1.69 deraadt 2447: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2448: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2449:
1.247 jufi 2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2451: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2452: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2453: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2454:
2455: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2456: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2457:
1.113 naddy 2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2459: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2460: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2461:
2462: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2463: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2464: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2465: </ul>
1.57 louis 2466:
1.69 deraadt 2467: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2468: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2469:
1.113 naddy 2470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2471: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2472: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2473: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2474:
1.222 miod 2475: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2476: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2477: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2478: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2479: <p>
1.247 jufi 2480: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2481:
1.69 deraadt 2482: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2483: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2486: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2487: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2488:
1.69 deraadt 2489: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2490: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2491: <p>
1.247 jufi 2492: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2493:
1.69 deraadt 2494: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2495: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2496:
1.247 jufi 2497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2498: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2499: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2500: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2501:
2502: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2503: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2504: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2507: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2508: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2509: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2510: <p>
1.247 jufi 2511: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2512:
1.69 deraadt 2513: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2514: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2515:
1.247 jufi 2516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2517: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2518: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2519: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2520: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2521: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2522:
2523: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2524: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2525: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2526: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2527: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2528: <p>
1.247 jufi 2529: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2530:
2531: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2532: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2533:
1.247 jufi 2534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2535: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2536: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2537:
1.69 deraadt 2538: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2539: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2540: <p>
1.112 naddy 2541:
1.247 jufi 2542: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2543: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2544:
1.113 naddy 2545: <hr>
2546: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2547: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2548:
1.200 niklas 2549: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <ul>
2552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2553: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2554: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2555:
2556: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2557: <p>
2558:
1.247 jufi 2559: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2560:
2561: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2562:
1.247 jufi 2563: <ul>
2564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2565: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2566: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2567:
2568: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2569: <p>
2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2572: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2573: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2574:
2575: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2576: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2577: <p>
2578:
1.247 jufi 2579: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2580:
2581: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2582:
1.247 jufi 2583: <ul>
2584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2585: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2586: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2587:
2588: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2589: <p>
2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2592:
1.102 niklas 2593: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2594:
1.247 jufi 2595: <ul>
2596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2597: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2598: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2599:
2600: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2601: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2602: <p>
1.102 niklas 2603:
1.247 jufi 2604: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2605:
1.84 niklas 2606: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2607:
1.247 jufi 2608: <ul>
2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2610: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2611: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2612:
2613: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2614: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2615: <p>
1.84 niklas 2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2618:
1.69 deraadt 2619: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2620:
1.247 jufi 2621: <ul>
2622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2623: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2624: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2625:
1.222 miod 2626: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2627: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2628: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2629: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2630:
1.247 jufi 2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2632: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2633: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2634: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2635: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2636:
1.20 louis 2637: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2638: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2639: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2640: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2641: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2644:
1.113 naddy 2645: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2646: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2647: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2648:
2649:
2650: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2651: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2654: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2655: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2656:
2657: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2658: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2659: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2660:
2661: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2662: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2663:
1.247 jufi 2664: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2665:
2666:
1.170 louis 2667: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2668: <ul>
1.170 louis 2669:
1.247 jufi 2670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 2671: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2672: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2673: </strong></font><br>
2674:
2675: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2676: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2677: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2678: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2679: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2680: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2681: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2682: <p>
1.247 jufi 2683: </ul>
1.170 louis 2684:
1.69 deraadt 2685: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2686: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2687:
1.247 jufi 2688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 2689: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2690: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2691: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2692:
2693: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2694: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2695: translating and reprinting articles from
2696: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2697: <p>
1.247 jufi 2698: </ul>
1.20 louis 2699:
1.113 naddy 2700: <hr>
2701: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 2702: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 2703:
1.246 jufi 2704: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2705: <ul>
2706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2707: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
2708: December 04, 2002
2709: </strong></font><br>
2710: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2711: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2712: <p>
1.247 jufi 2713: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2714:
1.151 louis 2715: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2716: <ul>
1.151 louis 2717:
1.247 jufi 2718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 2719: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2720: </strong></font><br>
2721:
2722: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2723: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2724: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2725: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2726: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2727: <p>
1.247 jufi 2728: </ul>
1.151 louis 2729:
1.72 louis 2730: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2731: <ul>
1.72 louis 2732:
1.247 jufi 2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2734: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2735: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2736: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2737:
1.101 jufi 2738: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2739: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2740: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2741: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2742: Giving way to
2743: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2744: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2745: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2746: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2747: <p>
1.247 jufi 2748: </ul>
1.72 louis 2749:
1.69 deraadt 2750: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2751: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2752:
1.247 jufi 2753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2754: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2755: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2756: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2757:
2758: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2759: <p>
1.247 jufi 2760: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2761:
1.50 louis 2762:
1.113 naddy 2763: <hr>
2764: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 2765: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 2766:
1.69 deraadt 2767: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2768: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2769:
1.247 jufi 2770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2771: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2772: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2773: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2774:
2775: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2776: <p>
1.247 jufi 2777: </ul>
1.62 form 2778:
1.69 deraadt 2779: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2780: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2781:
1.247 jufi 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2783: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2784: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 2785: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2786:
1.59 form 2787: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2788: <p>
1.112 naddy 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2791:
1.113 naddy 2792: <hr>
2793: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 2794: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2795: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 2796:
1.247 jufi 2797: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 2798: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2799: Radio, August 2, 2000
2800: </strong></font><br>
2801:
2802: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2803: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2804: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2805: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2806: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2807: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2808: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2809: <p>
2810:
1.247 jufi 2811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2812: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2813: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2814: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2815: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2816:
2817: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2818: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2819: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2820: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2821: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2822: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 2823: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 2824: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2825: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2826: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2827: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2828: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2829: <p>
1.247 jufi 2830: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 2831:
1.113 naddy 2832: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2833: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 2834: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 2835:
2836: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2837: <ul>
1.216 horacio 2838:
1.247 jufi 2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 2840: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2841: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2842: </strong></font><br>
2843:
2844: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2845: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2846: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2847: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2848: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2849: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 2850: A
1.216 horacio 2851: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2852: <p>
1.247 jufi 2853: </ul>
1.216 horacio 2854:
1.252 miod 2855: <hr>
2856: <a name=fr></a>
2857: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
2858:
2859: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
2860: <ul>
2861:
2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2863: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
2864: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
2865: </strong></font><br>
2866:
2867: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
2868: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
2869: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
2870: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
2871: <p>
2872: </ul>
2873:
1.216 horacio 2874:
2875: <hr>
2876: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 2877: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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