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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>
1.255 ian 37:
1.260 ian 38: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 ! deraadt 39: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
! 40: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
! 41: Grant Gross, IDG News Service, April 18.</a>
! 42: </strong></font><br>
! 43: (also online at
! 44: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">
! 45: Network Fusion</a>)<br>
! 46: More coverage on the DARPA grant being killed without notice.
! 47: <p>
! 48:
! 49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 50: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
51: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
52: Associated Press, April 18th,
53: </strong></font><br>
54: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
55: DARPA funding cancellation. This has been picked up by
56: many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories
57: including:
1.263 deraadt 58: <ul>
59: <li><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">Seattle Post Intelligencer</a>
60: <li><a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/17/ap/HiTech/apnews42742-03.txt">The Porterville Recorder, CA</a> [Pulled]
61: <li><a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">Lakeland Leger</a>
62: <li><a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">Times Daily, AL</a>
63: <li><a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">Boston.com, MA</a><li><a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL</a>
64: </ul>
1.262 beck 65: <p>
66:
67: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 68: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
69: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.264 ! deraadt 70: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18.</a>
1.263 deraadt 71: </strong></font><br>
1.264 ! deraadt 72: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 73: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
74: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
75: <p>
76:
77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
78: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
79: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
80: The Register, April 18th.
81: </strong></font><br>
82: Another report on the DARPA funding.
83: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
84: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
85: <p>
86:
87: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 88: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
89: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
90: news.com.com, April 17th.
91: </strong></font><br>
92: (also online at
93: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
94: BusinessWeek.com</a>)
95: <br>
96: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
97: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
98: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
99: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
100: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
101: Goes on to say:
102: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
103: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
104: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
105: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
106: <p>
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
108: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
109: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
110: SlashDot, April 17th.
111: </strong></font><br>
112: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding canellation.
113: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
114: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
115: without notice or justification.
116: <p>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
119: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
120: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
121: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003
122: </strong></font><br>
123: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
124: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
125: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
126: effective today, without any warning..."
127: <p>
1.257 ian 128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 130: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
131: TV appearance</a>,
1.259 deraadt 132: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003
1.258 deraadt 133: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 134: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
135: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
136: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
137: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
138: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 142: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
143: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
144: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003
145: </strong></font><br>
146: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
147: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
148: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
149: quoting two of them:
150: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
151: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
152: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
153: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
154: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
155: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
156: <p>
157:
1.255 ian 158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 159: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
160: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
161: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003
162: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 163: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 164: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
165: security experts for more than three decades."
166: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
167: <p>
1.261 ian 168:
1.254 drahn 169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 170: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
171: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
172: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003
173: </strong></font><br>
174: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
175: from US DARPA.
176: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
177: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
178: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
179: the BSD license.
180: <p>
181: </ul>
182:
1.251 ian 183: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
184: <ul>
185:
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
188: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
189: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003
190: </strong></font><br>
191: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
192: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
193: Mentions
194: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
195: and
196: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
197: programs.
198: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
199: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
200: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
201: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
202: <p>
1.260 ian 203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
205: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
206: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
207: </strong></font><br>
208: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
209: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
210: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
211: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
212: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
213: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
214: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
215: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
216: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
217: put into service."
218: <p>
219: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
220: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
221: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
222: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
223: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
224: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
225: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
226: computers with security features."
227: <p>
1.251 ian 228: </ul>
229:
1.249 jufi 230: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
231: <ul>
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
233: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
234: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
235: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003
236: </strong></font><br>
237: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
238: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
239: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
240: <p>
241: </ul>
242:
1.246 jufi 243: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 244: <ul>
1.246 jufi 245:
1.247 jufi 246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 247: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
248: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>, CNET News.com, December 04, 2002
249: </strong></font><br>
250: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
251: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
252: <p>
253:
1.247 jufi 254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 255: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
256: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>, eWeek, December 03, 2002
257: </strong></font><br>
258: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
259: in their annual OpenHack security test.
260: <p>
1.247 jufi 261: </ul>
1.246 jufi 262:
1.244 jufi 263: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 264: <ul>
1.246 jufi 265:
1.247 jufi 266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 267: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
268: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
269: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
270: <br>
271: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002
272: </strong></font><br>
273: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
274: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
275: md5 digests.
276: <p>
277:
1.247 jufi 278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 279: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.246 jufi 280: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>, eWeek, October 18, 2002
1.244 jufi 281: </strong></font><br>
282: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
283: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
284: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
285: right the first time."
286: <p>
1.247 jufi 287: </ul>
1.244 jufi 288:
289:
290: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 291: <ul>
1.244 jufi 292:
1.247 jufi 293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 294: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
295: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF
296: Logs</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002
297: </strong></font><br>
298: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
299: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
300: part 6</a>.
301: <p>
302:
1.247 jufi 303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 304: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
305: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>, O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002
306: </strong></font><br>
307: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
308: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
309: <p>
1.247 jufi 310: </ul>
1.242 jufi 311:
312: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 313: <ul>
1.242 jufi 314:
1.247 jufi 315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 316: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
317: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>, O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002
318: </strong></font><br>
319: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
320: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
321: <p>
322:
1.247 jufi 323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 324: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
325: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>, Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002
326: </strong></font><br>
327: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
328: this time using pf.
329: <p>
1.247 jufi 330: </ul>
1.242 jufi 331:
332: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 333: <ul>
1.242 jufi 334:
1.247 jufi 335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 336: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
337: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002
338: </strong></font><br>
339: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
340: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
341: their rotation.
342: <p>
343:
1.247 jufi 344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 345: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
346: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>, O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002
347: </strong></font><br>
348: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
349: <p>
1.247 jufi 350: </ul>
1.242 jufi 351:
1.239 jufi 352: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 353: <ul>
1.239 jufi 354:
1.247 jufi 355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 356: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
357: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002
358: </strong></font><br>
359: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
360: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
361: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
362: <p>
363:
1.247 jufi 364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 365: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
366: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>, O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002
367: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 368: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
369: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
370: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 371: <p>
1.247 jufi 372: </ul>
1.239 jufi 373:
1.235 lebel 374: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 375: <ul>
1.235 lebel 376:
1.239 jufi 377:
1.247 jufi 378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 379: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
380: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>, ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002
381: </strong></font><br>
382: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
383: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
384: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
385: <p>
1.247 jufi 386: </ul>
1.235 lebel 387:
1.228 horacio 388: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 389: <ul>
1.228 horacio 390:
1.247 jufi 391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 392: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
393: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>, O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
394: </strong></font><br>
395: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
396: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
397: <p>
398:
1.247 jufi 399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 400: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
401: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>, The Register, February 27, 2002
402: </strong></font><br>
403: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
404: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
405: <p>
406:
1.247 jufi 407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 408: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
409: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>, BSD Today, February 27, 2002
410: </strong></font><br>
411: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
412: on the desktop of his parents.
413: <p>
414:
1.247 jufi 415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 416: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.230 horacio 417: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>, openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 418: </strong></font><br>
419: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
420: using IPFilter.
421:
422: <p>
423:
1.247 jufi 424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 425: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
426: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>, ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
427: </strong></font><br>
428: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
429: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
430: perspectives of the four OS.
431: <br>
432: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 433: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 434: <p>
435:
1.247 jufi 436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 437: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
438: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
439: software and security</a>, OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
440: </strong></font><br>
441:
442: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
443: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
444: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
445: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
446: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
447: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
448: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
449: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
450: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
451: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
452: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
453: security conscious team beyond doubt.
454: <p>
1.247 jufi 455: </ul>
1.228 horacio 456:
1.225 horacio 457: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 458: <ul>
1.225 horacio 459:
1.247 jufi 460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 461: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
462: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.226 horacio 463: Interview</a>, BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 464: </strong></font><br>
465:
466: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
467: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
468: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 469: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 470: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
471: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
472: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
473: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
474: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 475: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 476: of choice.
477: <p>
1.247 jufi 478: </ul>
1.225 horacio 479:
480: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 481: <ul>
1.225 horacio 482:
1.247 jufi 483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 484: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
485: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2001
486: </strong></font><br>
487:
488: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
489: <p>
490:
1.247 jufi 491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 492: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.245 jufi 493: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>, ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 494: </strong></font><br>
495:
496: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
497: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
498: <p>
1.247 jufi 499: </ul>
1.225 horacio 500:
1.218 horacio 501: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 502: <ul>
1.218 horacio 503:
1.247 jufi 504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 505: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
506: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>, kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
507: </strong></font><br>
508:
509: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
510: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
511: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
512: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
513: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
514: subjects. Worth a read.
515: <p>
516:
517:
1.247 jufi 518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 519: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.225 horacio 520: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 521: </strong></font><br>
522:
523: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
524: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
525: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
526: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
527: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
528: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
529: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
530: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
531: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 532: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 533: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
534: on other operating systems.<br>
535: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
536: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
537: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
538: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
539: <p>
540:
1.247 jufi 541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 542: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
543: Operating System 2010</a>, Byte, November 5, 2001
544: </strong></font><br>
545:
546: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
547: covering the level of software integration into the core
548: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
549: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
550: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
551: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
552: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
553: <p>
554:
1.247 jufi 555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 556: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
557: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>, InfoWorld November 2, 2001
558: </strong></font><br>
559:
560: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
561: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
562: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
563: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
564: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
565: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
566: <p>
1.247 jufi 567: </ul>
1.221 horacio 568:
1.210 jufi 569: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 570: <ul>
1.215 horacio 571:
1.247 jufi 572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 573: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
574: Already a Contender</a>, InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
575: </strong></font><br>
576:
577: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
578: source software in response to an article which claimed that
579: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
580: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
581: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
582: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
583: <p>
584:
1.247 jufi 585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 586: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.210 jufi 587: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
588: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 589:
1.224 horacio 590: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
591: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
592: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
593: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
594: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
595: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 596: <p>
1.247 jufi 597: </ul>
1.215 horacio 598:
599: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 600: <ul>
1.215 horacio 601:
1.247 jufi 602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 603: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
604: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
605: Division</a>, August 23, 2001
606: </strong></font><br>
607:
608: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
609: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 610: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 611: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
612: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
613: investment</em>.<br>
614: The implementation details can be seen on their
615: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
616: <p>
617:
1.247 jufi 618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 619: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
620: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
621: </strong></font><br>
622:
623: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
624: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
625: security and says that even secured operating systems running
626: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
627: to time.<br>
628: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
629: system and just the most secure system.
630: <p>
631:
1.247 jufi 632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 633: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
634: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
635: </strong></font><br>
636:
637: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
638: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
639: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
640: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
641: choice:<br>
642: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
643: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
644: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
645: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
646: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
647: network security devices and as such must be well
648: armored."</em><br>
649: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
650: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
651: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
652: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
653: <br>
654: Bravo!
655: <p>
1.247 jufi 656: </ul>
1.210 jufi 657:
1.207 ian 658: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 659: <ul>
1.215 horacio 660:
1.247 jufi 661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 662: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
663: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
664: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 665:
1.207 ian 666: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
667: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 668: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 669: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
670: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
671: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 672: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 673: <p>
1.247 jufi 674: </ul>
1.207 ian 675:
1.194 jufi 676: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 677: <ul>
1.194 jufi 678:
1.247 jufi 679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 680: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
681: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
682: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 683:
1.240 miod 684: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 685: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
686: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
687: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
688: <p>
689:
1.247 jufi 690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 691: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 692: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
693: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
694: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 695:
1.240 miod 696: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 697: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 698: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
699: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
700: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 701: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 702: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
703: <br>
704: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
705: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
706: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
707: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
708: <p>
709:
1.247 jufi 710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 711: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
712: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 713: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 714: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 715:
1.194 jufi 716: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
717: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
718: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
719: <br>
720: The new
721: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 722: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 723: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
724: <p>
1.247 jufi 725: </ul>
1.194 jufi 726:
1.190 horacio 727: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 728: <ul>
1.190 horacio 729:
1.247 jufi 730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 731:
732: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
733: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
734:
735: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
736: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
737:
738: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
739: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
740:
1.212 horacio 741: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
742: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 743: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
744:
1.211 horacio 745: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
746: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 747: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
748:
1.247 jufi 749: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 750: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
751:
1.247 jufi 752: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 753: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
754:
1.212 horacio 755: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
756: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 757: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
758:
759: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
760: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
761:
762: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
763: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
764:
765: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
766: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
767:
768: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 769: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 770:
1.192 jufi 771: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
772: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 773: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 774:
1.193 deraadt 775: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
776: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 777: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 778:
1.247 jufi 779: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 780: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
781:
1.247 jufi 782: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 783: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
784: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
785:
1.213 horacio 786: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 787: 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 788: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
789:
1.190 horacio 790: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 791: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
792: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
793: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
794: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
795: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
796: <p>
1.190 horacio 797:
1.247 jufi 798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 799: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
800: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
801: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 802: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 803:
1.195 jufi 804: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 805: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
806: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
807: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 808: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
809: <p>
810:
1.247 jufi 811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 812: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 813: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
814: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
815: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 816:
1.191 jufi 817: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
818: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
819: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
820: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 821: <p>
1.247 jufi 822: </ul>
1.190 horacio 823:
1.191 jufi 824:
1.186 jufi 825: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 826: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 827:
1.247 jufi 828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 829: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 830: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
831: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 832: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 833:
1.188 jufi 834: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 835: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 836: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 837: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
838: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 839: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 840: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 841: <p>
842:
1.191 jufi 843:
1.247 jufi 844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 845: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
846: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
847: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 848: </strong></font><br>
849:
850: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
851: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
852: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
853: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
854: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
855: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
856: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
857: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
858: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
859: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
860: familiar?
861: <p>
1.247 jufi 862: </ul>
1.191 jufi 863:
1.178 louis 864: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 865: <ul>
1.178 louis 866:
1.247 jufi 867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 868: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
869: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 870: </strong></font><br>
871:
872: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
873: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
874: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
875: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
876: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
877: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
878: <p>
879:
1.247 jufi 880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 881: <a
1.182 louis 882: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
883: </strong></font><br>
884:
885: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
886: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
887: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
888: <p>
889:
1.247 jufi 890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.182 louis 891: <a
1.179 louis 892: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
893: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
894: </strong></font><br>
895:
896: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
897: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
898: <p>
1.247 jufi 899: </ul>
1.179 louis 900:
1.174 louis 901:
1.175 louis 902: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 903: <ul>
1.175 louis 904:
1.247 jufi 905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 906: <a
1.179 louis 907: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
908: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
909: </strong></font><br>
910:
911: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
912: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
913: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
914: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
915: <p>
916:
1.247 jufi 917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.179 louis 918: <a
1.183 ian 919: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 920: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
921: </strong></font><br>
922:
923: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 924: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 925: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
926: <p>
1.247 jufi 927: </ul>
1.175 louis 928:
1.176 louis 929:
1.172 mickey 930: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 931: <ul>
1.172 mickey 932:
1.247 jufi 933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.180 louis 934: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 935: </strong></font><br>
936:
937: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
938: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
939: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 940: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 941: <p>
942:
1.247 jufi 943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 944: <a
1.174 louis 945: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
946: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
947: </strong></font><br>
948:
949: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
950: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
951: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
952: <p>
953:
1.247 jufi 954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 955: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
956: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
957: </strong></font><br>
958:
959: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
960: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
961: <p>
962:
1.247 jufi 963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 964: <a
965: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
966: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
967: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
968: </strong></font><br>
969:
970: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
971: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
972: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
973: our own Theo de Raadt.
974: <p>
975:
1.247 jufi 976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 977: <a
978: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
979: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
980: </strong></font><br>
981:
982: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
983: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
984: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
985: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
986: shut down.]
987: <p>
988:
1.247 jufi 989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 990: <a
1.226 horacio 991: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
992: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 993: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 994: </strong></font><br>
995:
996: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
997: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
998: <p>
1.247 jufi 999: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1000:
1.161 louis 1001: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1002: <ul>
1.161 louis 1003:
1.247 jufi 1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1005: <a
1006: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
1007: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
1008: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1009: </strong></font><br>
1010:
1011: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1012: by John Wolley
1013: <p>
1014:
1.247 jufi 1015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1016: <a
1017: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
1018: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
1019: </strong></font><br>
1020:
1021: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1022: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1023: OpenBSD).
1024: <p>
1025:
1.247 jufi 1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1027: <a
1.247 jufi 1028: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1029: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1030: </strong></font><br>
1031:
1032: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1033: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1034: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1035: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1036: and hindsight.
1037: <p>
1038:
1.247 jufi 1039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1040: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1041: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1042: </strong></font><br>
1043:
1044: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1045: <p>
1046:
1.247 jufi 1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1048: <a
1.168 provos 1049: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1050: December 7, 2000
1051: </strong></font><br>
1052:
1053: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1054: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1055: us explain.
1056: <p>
1057:
1.247 jufi 1058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1059: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1060: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1061: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1062: December 6, 2000
1063: </strong></font><br>
1064:
1065: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1066: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1067: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1068: <p>
1069:
1.247 jufi 1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1071: <a
1.226 horacio 1072: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1073: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1074: </strong></font><br>
1075:
1076: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1077: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1078: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1079: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1080: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1081: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1082: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1083: <p>
1.162 millert 1084:
1.247 jufi 1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1086: <a
1.161 louis 1087: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1088: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1092: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1093: <p>
1094:
1.247 jufi 1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1096: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1097: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1098: </strong></font><br>
1099:
1100: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1101: <p>
1102:
1103:
1.247 jufi 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1105: <a
1.226 horacio 1106: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1107: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1108: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1109: </strong></font><br>
1110:
1111: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1112: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1113: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1114: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1115: <p>
1.247 jufi 1116: </ul>
1.169 louis 1117:
1.158 louis 1118: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1119: <ul>
1.147 louis 1120:
1.247 jufi 1121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1122: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1123: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125:
1126: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1127: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1128: <p>
1129:
1.247 jufi 1130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1131: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1132: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1133: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1134: </strong></font><br>
1135: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1136: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1137: <p>
1138:
1.247 jufi 1139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1140: <a
1141: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1142: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1143: </strong></font><br>
1144:
1145: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1146: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1147: <p>
1148:
1.247 jufi 1149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1150: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1151: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1152: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1153:
1.213 horacio 1154: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1155: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1156: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1157: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1158: <p>
1.215 horacio 1159:
1.247 jufi 1160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1161: <a
1162: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1163: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1164: </strong></font><br>
1165:
1166: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1167: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1168: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1169: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1170: much of the attitude too).
1171: <p>
1.161 louis 1172:
1.247 jufi 1173: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1174: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1175: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1176: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1177:
1.157 louis 1178: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1179: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1180: <p>
1.247 jufi 1181: </ul>
1.157 louis 1182:
1183: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1184: <ul>
1.157 louis 1185:
1.247 jufi 1186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1187: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1188: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1189: </strong></font><br>
1190:
1191: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1192: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1193: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1194: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1195: <p>
1196:
1.247 jufi 1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1198: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1199: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1200: </strong></font><br>
1201:
1202: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1203: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1204: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1205: it because they love coding...
1206: <p>
1207:
1.247 jufi 1208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1209: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1210: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1211: </strong></font><br>
1212:
1213: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1214: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1215: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1216: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1217: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1218: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1219: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1220: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1221: <p>
1222:
1.247 jufi 1223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1224: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1225: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1226: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1227: </strong></font><br>
1228:
1229: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1230: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1231: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1232: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1233: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1234: the pizza.
1235: <p>
1236:
1.247 jufi 1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1238: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1239: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1240: </strong></font><br>
1241:
1242: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1243: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1244: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1245: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1246: problems.
1247: <p>
1248:
1.247 jufi 1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1250: <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 1251: </strong></font><br>
1252:
1.222 miod 1253: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1254: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1255: - whether they like it or not.
1256: <p>
1257:
1.247 jufi 1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1259: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1260: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1261: </strong></font><br>
1262:
1263: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1264: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1265: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1266: <p>
1.148 aaron 1267:
1.247 jufi 1268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1269: <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 1270: </strong></font><br>
1271:
1272: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1273: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1274: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1275: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1276: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1277: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1278: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1279: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1280: <p>
1281:
1.247 jufi 1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1283: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1284: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286:
1287: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1288: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1289: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1290: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1291: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1292: <p>
1.247 jufi 1293: </ul>
1.147 louis 1294:
1.138 louis 1295: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1296: <ul>
1.138 louis 1297:
1.247 jufi 1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1299: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1300: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1301: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1302: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1303: </strong></font><br>
1304:
1.227 horacio 1305: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1306: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1307: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1308: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1309: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1310: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1311: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1312: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1313: <p>
1314:
1.247 jufi 1315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1316: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1317: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1318: </strong></font><br>
1319:
1320: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1321: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1322: groups, and even Linux.
1323: <p>
1324:
1.247 jufi 1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1326: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1327: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1328: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1329: </strong></font><br>
1330:
1331: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1332: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1333: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1334: library after installing the OS.
1335: <p>
1336:
1.247 jufi 1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1338: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1339: Sys Admin, September 2000
1340: </strong></font><br>
1341:
1342: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1343: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1344: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1345: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1346: (<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>,
1347: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1348: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1349: <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 1350: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1351: out of the system.
1352: <p>
1353:
1.247 jufi 1354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1355: <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
1356: </strong></font><br>
1357:
1358: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1359: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1360: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1361: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1362: the IP filtering and address translation.
1363: <p>
1.247 jufi 1364: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1365:
1.131 louis 1366: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1367: <ul>
1.131 louis 1368:
1.247 jufi 1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1370: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1371: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1372: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1373: </strong></font><br>
1374:
1375: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1376: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1377: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1378: <p>
1379:
1.247 jufi 1380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1381: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1382: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1383: </strong></font><br>
1384:
1385: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1386: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1387: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1388: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1389: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1390: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1391: note of"</i>.
1392: <p>
1393:
1.247 jufi 1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1395: <a
1.247 jufi 1396: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1397: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1398: </strong></font><br>
1399:
1400: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1401: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1402: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1403: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1404: <p>
1405:
1.247 jufi 1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1407: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1408: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1409: </strong></font><br>
1410:
1411: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1412: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1413: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1414: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1415: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1416: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1417: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1418: <p>
1419:
1.247 jufi 1420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1421: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1422: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1423: 2000
1424: </strong></font><br>
1425:
1426: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1427: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1428: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1429: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1430: against current industry practices.
1431: <p>
1432:
1.247 jufi 1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1434: <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
1435: </strong></font><br>
1436:
1437: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1438: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1439: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1440: <p>
1441:
1.247 jufi 1442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1443: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1444: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1445: </strong></font><br>
1446:
1447: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1448: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1449: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1450: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1451: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1452: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1453: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1454: <p>
1455:
1.247 jufi 1456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1457: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1458: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1459: </strong></font><br>
1460:
1461: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1462: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1463: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1464: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1465: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1466: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1467: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1468: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1469: <p>
1.247 jufi 1470: </ul>
1.131 louis 1471:
1.118 louis 1472: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1473: <ul>
1.118 louis 1474:
1.247 jufi 1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1476: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1477: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1478: </strong></font><br>
1479:
1480: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1481: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1482: about time. The article mentions that
1483: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1484: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1485: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1486: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1487: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1488: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1489: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1490: <p>
1491:
1.247 jufi 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1493: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1494: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1495: </strong></font><br>
1496:
1497: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1498: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1499: of OpenSSH.
1500: <p>
1501:
1.247 jufi 1502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1503: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1504: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1505: </strong></font><br>
1506:
1507: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1508: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1509: bridging.
1510: <p>
1511:
1.247 jufi 1512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1513: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1514: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1515: </strong></font><br>
1516:
1.121 deraadt 1517: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1518: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1519: <p>
1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1522: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1523: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1524: </strong></font><br>
1525:
1526: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1527: <p>
1528:
1.247 jufi 1529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1530: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1531: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1532: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1533: </strong></font><br>
1534:
1.120 deraadt 1535: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1536: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1537: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1538: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1539: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1540: <p>
1541:
1.247 jufi 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1543: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1544: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1545: </strong></font><br>
1546:
1.222 miod 1547: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1548: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1549: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1550: protocols and their quirks.
1551: <p>
1552:
1.247 jufi 1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1554: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1555: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1556: </strong></font><br>
1557:
1558: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1559: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1560: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1561: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1562: <p>
1563:
1.247 jufi 1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1565: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1566: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1567: </strong></font><br>
1568:
1569: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1570: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1571: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1572: <p>
1573:
1.247 jufi 1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1575: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1576: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1577: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1578: </strong></font><br>
1579:
1580: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1581: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1582: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1583: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1584: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1585: <p>
1.247 jufi 1586: </ul>
1.118 louis 1587:
1.104 louis 1588: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1589: <ul>
1.104 louis 1590:
1.247 jufi 1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1592: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1593: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1594: </strong></font><br>
1595:
1596: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1597: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1598: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1599: be a bit dry.
1600: <p>
1601:
1.247 jufi 1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1603: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1604: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1605: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1606: </strong></font><br>
1607: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1608: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1609: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1610: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1611: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1612: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1613: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1614: <p>
1615:
1.247 jufi 1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1617: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1618: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1619: 2000
1.128 louis 1620: </strong></font><br>
1621:
1622: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1623: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1624: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1625: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1626: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1627: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1628: <p>
1629:
1.247 jufi 1630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1631: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1632: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1633: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1634:
1635: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1636: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1637: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1638: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1639: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1640: <p>
1.110 louis 1641:
1.247 jufi 1642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1643: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1644: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1645: </strong></font><br>
1646:
1647: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1648: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1649: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1650: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1651: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1652: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1653: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1654: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1655: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1656: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1657: <p>
1658:
1.247 jufi 1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1660: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1661: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1662:
1663: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1664: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1665: <p>
1.108 louis 1666:
1.247 jufi 1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1668: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1669: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1670: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1671:
1672: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1673: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1674: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1675: <p>
1.106 louis 1676:
1.247 jufi 1677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1678: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1679: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1680: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1681:
1682: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1683: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1684: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1685: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1686: <p>
1.107 louis 1687:
1.247 jufi 1688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1689: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1690: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1691: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1692:
1693: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1694: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1695: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1696: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1697: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1698: <p>
1.105 louis 1699:
1.247 jufi 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1701: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1702: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1703: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1704:
1.113 naddy 1705: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1706: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1707: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1708: <p>
1.104 louis 1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1711: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1712: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1713: </strong></font><br>
1714:
1715: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1716: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1717: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1718: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1719: <p>
1.247 jufi 1720: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1721:
1.85 louis 1722: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1723: <ul>
1.85 louis 1724:
1.247 jufi 1725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1726: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1727: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1728: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1729:
1730: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1731: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1732: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1733: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1734: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1735: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1736: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1737: <p>
1.99 louis 1738:
1.247 jufi 1739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1740: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1741: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1742: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1743:
1744: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1745: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1746: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1747: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1748: <p>
1.100 louis 1749:
1.247 jufi 1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1751: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1752: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1753: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1754:
1755: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1756: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1757: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1758: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1759: <p>
1.95 louis 1760:
1.247 jufi 1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1762: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1763: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1764: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1765:
1766: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1767: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1768: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1769: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1770: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1771: <p>
1.92 louis 1772:
1.247 jufi 1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1774: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1775: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1776: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1777:
1778: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1779: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1780: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1781: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1782: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1783: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1784: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1785: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1786: <p>
1.91 louis 1787:
1.247 jufi 1788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1789: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1790: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1791: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1792:
1793: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1794: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1795: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1796: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1797: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1798: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1799: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1800: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1801: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1802: <p>
1.90 louis 1803:
1.247 jufi 1804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1805: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1806: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1807: </strong></font><br>
1808: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1809: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1810: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1811: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1812: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1813: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1814: <p>
1815:
1.247 jufi 1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1817: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1818: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1819: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1820:
1.113 naddy 1821: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1822: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1823: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1824: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1825: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1826: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1827: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1828: <p>
1.87 louis 1829:
1.247 jufi 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1831: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1832: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1833: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1834:
1835: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1836: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1837: <p>
1.85 louis 1838:
1.247 jufi 1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 1840: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1841: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1842: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1843:
1844: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1845: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1846: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1847: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1848: <p>
1.89 louis 1849:
1.247 jufi 1850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1851: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1852: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1853: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1854:
1855: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1856: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1857: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1858: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1859: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 1860: </ul>
1.85 louis 1861:
1.78 deraadt 1862: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1863: <ul>
1.74 louis 1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1866: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1867: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1868: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1869: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1870:
1871: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1872: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1873: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1874: <p>
1.83 louis 1875:
1.247 jufi 1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 1877: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1878: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1879: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1880:
1881: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1882: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1883: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1884: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1885: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1886: <p>
1.93 louis 1887:
1.247 jufi 1888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1889: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1890: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1891: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1892: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1893:
1.83 louis 1894: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1895: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1896: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1897: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1898: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1899: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1900: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1901: <p>
1.82 aaron 1902:
1.247 jufi 1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1904: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1905: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1906: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1907:
1.83 louis 1908: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1909: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1910: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1911: <p>
1.80 louis 1912:
1.247 jufi 1913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1914: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1915: Bad Press</a>,
1916: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1917: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1918:
1919: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1920: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1921: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1922: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1923: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1924: <p>
1.247 jufi 1925: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 1926:
1927: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1928: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 1929:
1.247 jufi 1930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1931: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1932: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1933: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1934: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1935:
1936: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1937: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1938: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1939: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1940: <p>
1.74 louis 1941:
1.247 jufi 1942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 1943: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1944: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1945: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1946:
1.219 horacio 1947: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
1948: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
1949: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1950: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
1951: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
1952: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
1953: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1954: <p>
1.88 louis 1955:
1.247 jufi 1956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 1957: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1958: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1959: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1960:
1961: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1962: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1963: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1964: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1965: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1966: <p>
1.81 louis 1967:
1.247 jufi 1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1969: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1970: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1971: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1972:
1973: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1974: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1975: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1976: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1977: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1978: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1979: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1980: <p>
1.90 louis 1981:
1.247 jufi 1982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1983: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1984: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1985: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1986:
1987: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1988: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1989: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1990: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1991: <p>
1.247 jufi 1992: </ul>
1.71 louis 1993:
1.69 deraadt 1994: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1995: <ul>
1.70 louis 1996:
1.247 jufi 1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1998: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1999: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2000: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2001:
2002: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2003: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2004: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2005: <p>
1.70 louis 2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2008: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2009: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2010: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2011:
2012: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2013: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2014: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2015: <p>
1.68 louis 2016:
1.247 jufi 2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2018: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2019: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2020: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2021: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2022:
1.111 jufi 2023: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2024: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2025: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2026: "secure by default" installation.
2027: <p>
1.64 louis 2028:
1.247 jufi 2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2030: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2031: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2032: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2033:
1.113 naddy 2034: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2035: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2036: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2037: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2038: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2039: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2040: <p>
1.66 louis 2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2043: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2044: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2045: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2046:
2047: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2048: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2049: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2050: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2051: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2052: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2053: <p>
1.83 louis 2054:
1.247 jufi 2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2056: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2057: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2058: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2059:
2060: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2061: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2062: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2063: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2064: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2065: <p>
1.64 louis 2066:
1.247 jufi 2067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2068: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2069: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2070: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2071:
2072: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2073: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2074: <p>
1.247 jufi 2075: </ul>
1.65 louis 2076:
1.69 deraadt 2077: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2078: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2079:
1.247 jufi 2080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2081: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2082: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2083: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2084:
2085: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2086: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2087: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2088: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2089: <p>
1.88 louis 2090:
1.247 jufi 2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2092: <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 2093: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2094:
2095: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2096: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2097: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2098: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2099: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2100: <p>
1.60 louis 2101:
1.247 jufi 2102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2103: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2104: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2105: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2106: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2107:
2108: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2109: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2110: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2111: <p>
1.58 louis 2112:
1.247 jufi 2113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2114: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2115: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2116:
2117: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2118: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2119: <p>
1.53 louis 2120:
1.247 jufi 2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2122: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2123: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2124: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2125:
2126: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2127: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2128: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2129: <p>
1.99 louis 2130:
1.247 jufi 2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2132: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2133: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2134:
2135: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2136: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2137: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2138: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2139: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2140:
1.247 jufi 2141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2142: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2143: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2144: </strong></font><br>
2145:
2146: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2147: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2148: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2149: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2150: <p>
2151:
1.247 jufi 2152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2153: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2154: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2155: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2156:
2157: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2158: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2159: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2160:
1.247 jufi 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2162: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2163: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2164:
2165: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2166: in
1.247 jufi 2167: <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 2168: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2169: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2170: <p>
1.53 louis 2171:
1.247 jufi 2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2173: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2174: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2175: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2176: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2177:
1.58 louis 2178: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2179: <p>
1.247 jufi 2180: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2181:
1.69 deraadt 2182: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2183: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2184:
1.247 jufi 2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2186: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2187: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2188: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2189: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2190:
1.58 louis 2191: Kurt Seifried
2192: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2193: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2194: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2195: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2198: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2199: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2200: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2201:
2202: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2203: <p>
1.96 louis 2204:
1.247 jufi 2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2206: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2207: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2208: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2209:
2210: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2211: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2212: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2213: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2214: <p>
1.247 jufi 2215: </ul>
1.86 louis 2216:
1.69 deraadt 2217: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2218: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2219:
1.247 jufi 2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2221: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2222: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2223: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2224:
2225: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2226: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2227: <p>
1.61 louis 2228:
1.247 jufi 2229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2230: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2231: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2232: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2233: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2234:
2235: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2236: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2237: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2238: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2239: right -- or at least strives to".
2240: <p>
1.48 louis 2241:
1.247 jufi 2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2243: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2244: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2245: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2246: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2247: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2248: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2249: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2250: <p>
1.61 louis 2251:
1.247 jufi 2252: <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 2253: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2254: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2255:
2256: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2257: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2258: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2259: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2260: <p>
1.46 louis 2261:
1.247 jufi 2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2263: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2264: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2265: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2266:
2267: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2268: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2269: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2272: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2273: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2274: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2275:
2276: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2277: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2278: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2279: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2280: <p>
1.247 jufi 2281: </ul>
1.70 louis 2282:
1.69 deraadt 2283: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2284: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2287: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2288: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2289: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2290: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2291:
2292: Kurt Seifried
2293: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2294: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2295: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2296: <p>
1.44 philen 2297:
1.247 jufi 2298: <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 2299: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2300: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2301:
2302: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2303: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2304:
1.247 jufi 2305: <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 2306: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2307: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2308:
2309: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2310: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2311:
1.247 jufi 2312: <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 2313: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2314: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2315:
2316: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2317: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2318: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2319: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2320: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2321:
1.247 jufi 2322: <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 2323: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2324: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2325:
1.36 louis 2326: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2327: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2330: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2331: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2332: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2333:
2334: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2335: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2336: </ul>
1.38 louis 2337:
1.69 deraadt 2338: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2339: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <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 2342: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2343: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2344:
2345: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2346: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2347: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2348:
1.113 naddy 2349: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2350: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2351: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2352: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2353:
2354: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2355: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2356: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2357: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2358: <blockquote>
2359: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2360: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2361: <br>
2362: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2363: </code>
2364: </blockquote>
2365: <p>
2366:
1.247 jufi 2367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2368: <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>
2369: <p>
2370:
2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2372: <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 2373: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2374:
2375: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2376: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2377: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2378: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2379:
1.247 jufi 2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2381: <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 2382: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2383:
2384: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2385: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2386: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2387: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2388: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2389: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2390: <p>
1.19 louis 2391:
1.113 naddy 2392: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2393: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2394: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2395:
2396: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2397: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2398: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2399: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2400: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2401: <p>
1.16 louis 2402:
1.247 jufi 2403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2404: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2405: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2406: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2407:
1.57 louis 2408: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2409: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2410: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2411: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2412:
1.247 jufi 2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2414: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2415: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2416: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2417:
1.113 naddy 2418: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2419:
1.247 jufi 2420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2421: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2422: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2423: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2424:
1.23 louis 2425: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2426: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2427: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2428: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2429: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2430: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2431:
1.247 jufi 2432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2433: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2434: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2435: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2436:
1.199 pvalchev 2437: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2438: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2439: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2440: installation.
1.113 naddy 2441: <p>
1.47 louis 2442:
1.247 jufi 2443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2444: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2445: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2446: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2447:
2448: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2449: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2450: </ul>
1.57 louis 2451:
1.69 deraadt 2452: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2453: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2454:
1.247 jufi 2455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2456: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2457: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2458: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2459:
2460: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2461: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2462: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2463: <p>
1.12 louis 2464:
1.247 jufi 2465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2466: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2467: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2468: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2469:
2470: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2471: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2472: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2473: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2474: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2475: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2476: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2477: <p>
1.247 jufi 2478: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2479:
1.69 deraadt 2480: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2481: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2482:
1.247 jufi 2483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2484: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2485: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2486:
2487: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2488: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2489: available."
1.113 naddy 2490: <p>
1.247 jufi 2491: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2492:
1.69 deraadt 2493: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2494: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2495:
1.247 jufi 2496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2497: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2498: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2499:
2500: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2501: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2502: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2503: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2504: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2505: <p>
1.33 louis 2506:
1.247 jufi 2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2508: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2509: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2510: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2511:
1.113 naddy 2512: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2513: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2514: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2515: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2516: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2517: <p>
1.247 jufi 2518: </ul>
1.57 louis 2519:
1.69 deraadt 2520: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2521: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2522:
1.247 jufi 2523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2524: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2525: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2526: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2527:
2528: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2529: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2530: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2531:
1.247 jufi 2532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2533: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2534: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2535: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2536: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2537:
2538: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2539: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2540:
1.247 jufi 2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2542: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2543:
1.113 naddy 2544: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2545:
1.247 jufi 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2547: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2548: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2549: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2550:
2551: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2552: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2553: </ul>
1.23 louis 2554:
1.69 deraadt 2555: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2556: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2557:
1.247 jufi 2558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2559: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2560: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2561:
2562: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2563: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2564: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2567: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2568: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2569: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2570:
2571: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2572: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2573: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2574: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2575: </ul>
1.57 louis 2576:
1.69 deraadt 2577: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2578: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2579:
1.247 jufi 2580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2581: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2582: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2583: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2584:
2585: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2586: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2587: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2588: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2589: <p>
1.15 louis 2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2592: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2593: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2594: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2595:
2596: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2597: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2598: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2599: columns."
1.113 naddy 2600: <p>
1.247 jufi 2601: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2602:
1.69 deraadt 2603: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2604: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2605:
1.247 jufi 2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2607: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2608: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2609: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2610:
2611: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2612: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2613:
1.113 naddy 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2615: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2616: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2617:
2618: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2619: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2620: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2621: </ul>
1.57 louis 2622:
1.69 deraadt 2623: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2624: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2625:
1.113 naddy 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2627: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2628: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2629: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2630:
1.222 miod 2631: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2632: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2633: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2634: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2635: <p>
1.247 jufi 2636: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2637:
1.69 deraadt 2638: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2639: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2642: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2643: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2644:
1.69 deraadt 2645: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2646: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2647: <p>
1.247 jufi 2648: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2649:
1.69 deraadt 2650: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2651: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2654: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2655: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2656: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2657:
2658: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2659: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2660: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2663: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2664: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2665: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2666: <p>
1.247 jufi 2667: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2668:
1.69 deraadt 2669: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2670: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2671:
1.247 jufi 2672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2673: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2674: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2675: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2676: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2677: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2678:
2679: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2680: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2681: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2682: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2683: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2684: <p>
1.247 jufi 2685: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2686:
2687: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2688: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2689:
1.247 jufi 2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2691: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2692: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2693:
1.69 deraadt 2694: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2695: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2696: <p>
1.112 naddy 2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2699: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2700:
1.113 naddy 2701: <hr>
2702: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2703: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2704:
1.200 niklas 2705: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2706:
1.247 jufi 2707: <ul>
2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2709: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2710: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2711:
2712: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2713: <p>
2714:
1.247 jufi 2715: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2716:
2717: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2718:
1.247 jufi 2719: <ul>
2720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2721: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2722: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2723:
2724: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2725: <p>
2726:
1.247 jufi 2727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2728: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2729: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2730:
2731: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2732: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2733: <p>
2734:
1.247 jufi 2735: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2736:
2737: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <ul>
2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2741: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2742: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2743:
2744: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2745: <p>
2746:
1.247 jufi 2747: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2748:
1.102 niklas 2749: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2750:
1.247 jufi 2751: <ul>
2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2753: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2754: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2755:
2756: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2757: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2758: <p>
1.102 niklas 2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2761:
1.84 niklas 2762: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2763:
1.247 jufi 2764: <ul>
2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2766: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2767: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2768:
2769: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2770: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2771: <p>
1.84 niklas 2772:
1.247 jufi 2773: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2774:
1.69 deraadt 2775: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <ul>
2778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2779: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2780: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2781:
1.222 miod 2782: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2783: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2784: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2785: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2786:
1.247 jufi 2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2788: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2789: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2790: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2791: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2792:
1.20 louis 2793: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2794: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2795: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2796: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2797: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2800:
1.113 naddy 2801: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2802: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2803: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2804:
2805:
2806: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2807: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2810: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2811: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2812:
2813: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2814: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2815: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2816:
2817: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2818: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2819:
1.247 jufi 2820: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2821:
2822:
1.170 louis 2823: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2824: <ul>
1.170 louis 2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 2827: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2828: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2829: </strong></font><br>
2830:
2831: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2832: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2833: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2834: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2835: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2836: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2837: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2838: <p>
1.247 jufi 2839: </ul>
1.170 louis 2840:
1.69 deraadt 2841: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2842: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2843:
1.247 jufi 2844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 2845: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2846: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2847: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2848:
2849: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2850: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2851: translating and reprinting articles from
2852: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2853: <p>
1.247 jufi 2854: </ul>
1.20 louis 2855:
1.113 naddy 2856: <hr>
2857: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 2858: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 2859:
1.246 jufi 2860: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2861: <ul>
2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2863: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
2864: December 04, 2002
2865: </strong></font><br>
2866: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2867: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2868: <p>
1.247 jufi 2869: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2870:
1.151 louis 2871: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2872: <ul>
1.151 louis 2873:
1.247 jufi 2874: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 2875: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2876: </strong></font><br>
2877:
2878: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2879: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2880: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2881: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2882: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2883: <p>
1.247 jufi 2884: </ul>
1.151 louis 2885:
1.72 louis 2886: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2887: <ul>
1.72 louis 2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2890: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2891: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2892: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2893:
1.101 jufi 2894: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2895: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2896: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2897: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2898: Giving way to
2899: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2900: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2901: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2902: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2903: <p>
1.247 jufi 2904: </ul>
1.72 louis 2905:
1.69 deraadt 2906: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2907: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2908:
1.247 jufi 2909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2910: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2911: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2912: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2913:
2914: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2915: <p>
1.247 jufi 2916: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2917:
1.50 louis 2918:
1.113 naddy 2919: <hr>
2920: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 2921: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 2922:
1.69 deraadt 2923: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2924: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2925:
1.247 jufi 2926: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2927: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2928: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2929: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2930:
2931: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2932: <p>
1.247 jufi 2933: </ul>
1.62 form 2934:
1.69 deraadt 2935: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2936: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2937:
1.247 jufi 2938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2939: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2940: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 2941: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2942:
1.59 form 2943: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2944: <p>
1.112 naddy 2945:
1.247 jufi 2946: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2947:
1.113 naddy 2948: <hr>
2949: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 2950: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2951: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 2952:
1.247 jufi 2953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 2954: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2955: Radio, August 2, 2000
2956: </strong></font><br>
2957:
2958: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2959: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2960: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2961: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2962: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2963: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2964: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2965: <p>
2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2968: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2969: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2970: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2971: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2972:
2973: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2974: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2975: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2976: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2977: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2978: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 2979: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 2980: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2981: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2982: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2983: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2984: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2985: <p>
1.247 jufi 2986: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 2987:
1.113 naddy 2988: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2989: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 2990: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 2991:
2992: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2993: <ul>
1.216 horacio 2994:
1.247 jufi 2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 2996: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2997: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2998: </strong></font><br>
2999:
3000: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3001: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3002: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3003: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3004: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3005: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3006: A
1.216 horacio 3007: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3008: <p>
1.247 jufi 3009: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3010:
1.252 miod 3011: <hr>
3012: <a name=fr></a>
3013: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3014:
3015: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3016: <ul>
3017:
3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3019: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3020: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3021: </strong></font><br>
3022:
3023: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3024: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3025: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3026: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3027: <p>
3028: </ul>
3029:
1.216 horacio 3030:
3031: <hr>
3032: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3033: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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