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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>
1.267 deraadt 39: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
40: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 41: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 42: </strong></font><br>
43: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
44: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
45: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
46: american century.
47: <p>
48:
49: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 50: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
51: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 52: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 53: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 54: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
55: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
56: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
57: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
58: Can also be found online at:
59: <ul>
60: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
61: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
62: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 63: <p>
64:
65: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 66: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
67: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.269 deraadt 68: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 69: </strong></font><br>
70: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
71: DARPA funding cancellation. This has been picked up by
72: many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories
73: including:
1.263 deraadt 74: <ul>
1.268 deraadt 75: <li><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">ABC News</a>
1.263 deraadt 76: <li><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">Seattle Post Intelligencer</a>
77: <li><a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/17/ap/HiTech/apnews42742-03.txt">The Porterville Recorder, CA</a> [Pulled]
78: <li><a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">Lakeland Leger</a>
79: <li><a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">Times Daily, AL</a>
80: <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>
1.266 deraadt 81: <li><a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">Rapid City Journal, SD</a>
82: <li><a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">Infoshop News</a>
83: <li><a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">San Jose Mercury News, CA</a>
1.269 deraadt 84: <li><a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">NEPA News, PA</a>
1.270 ! deraadt 85: <li><a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">Miami Herald, FL</a>
! 86: <li><a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Agency_denies_dropping_project:.shtml">Boston Globe, MA</a>
1.263 deraadt 87: </ul>
1.262 beck 88: <p>
89:
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 91: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
92: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 93: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 94: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 95: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 96: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
97: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
98: <p>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
101: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
102: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 103: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 104: </strong></font><br>
105: Another report on the DARPA funding.
106: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
107: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
108: <p>
109:
110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 111: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
112: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 113: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 114: </strong></font><br>
115: (also online at
116: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
117: BusinessWeek.com</a>)
118: <br>
119: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
120: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
121: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
122: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
123: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
124: Goes on to say:
125: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
126: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
127: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
128: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
129: <p>
130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
131: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
132: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 133: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 134: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 135: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 136: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
137: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
138: without notice or justification.
139: <p>
140:
141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
142: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
143: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 144: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 145: </strong></font><br>
146: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
147: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
148: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
149: effective today, without any warning..."
150: <p>
1.257 ian 151:
152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 153: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
154: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 155: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 156: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 157: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
158: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
159: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
160: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
161: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 162: <p>
163:
164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 165: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
166: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 167: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 168: </strong></font><br>
169: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
170: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
171: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
172: quoting two of them:
173: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
174: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
175: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
176: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
177: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
178: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
179: <p>
180:
1.255 ian 181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 182: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
183: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 184: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 185: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 186: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 187: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
188: security experts for more than three decades."
189: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
190: <p>
1.261 ian 191:
1.254 drahn 192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 193: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
194: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 195: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 196: </strong></font><br>
197: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
198: from US DARPA.
199: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
200: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
201: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
202: the BSD license.
203: <p>
204: </ul>
205:
1.251 ian 206: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
207: <ul>
208:
209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
210: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
211: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 212: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 213: </strong></font><br>
214: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
215: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
216: Mentions
217: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
218: and
219: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
220: programs.
221: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
222: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
223: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
224: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
225: <p>
1.260 ian 226:
227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
228: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
229: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
230: </strong></font><br>
231: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
232: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
233: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
234: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
235: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
236: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
237: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
238: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
239: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
240: put into service."
241: <p>
242: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
243: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
244: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
245: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
246: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
247: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
248: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
249: computers with security features."
250: <p>
1.251 ian 251: </ul>
252:
1.249 jufi 253: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
254: <ul>
255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
256: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
257: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 258: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 259: </strong></font><br>
260: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
261: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
262: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
263: <p>
264: </ul>
265:
1.246 jufi 266: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 267: <ul>
1.246 jufi 268:
1.247 jufi 269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 270: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 271: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
272: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 273: </strong></font><br>
274: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
275: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
276: <p>
277:
1.247 jufi 278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 279: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 280: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
281: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 282: </strong></font><br>
283: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
284: in their annual OpenHack security test.
285: <p>
1.247 jufi 286: </ul>
1.246 jufi 287:
1.244 jufi 288: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 289: <ul>
1.246 jufi 290:
1.247 jufi 291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 292: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
293: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
294: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 295: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 296: </strong></font><br>
297: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
298: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
299: md5 digests.
300: <p>
301:
1.247 jufi 302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 303: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 304: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
305: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 306: </strong></font><br>
307: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
308: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
309: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
310: right the first time."
311: <p>
1.247 jufi 312: </ul>
1.244 jufi 313:
314:
315: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 316: <ul>
1.244 jufi 317:
1.247 jufi 318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 319: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 320: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
321: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 322: </strong></font><br>
323: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
324: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
325: part 6</a>.
326: <p>
327:
1.247 jufi 328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 329: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 330: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
331: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 332: </strong></font><br>
333: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
334: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
335: <p>
1.247 jufi 336: </ul>
1.242 jufi 337:
338: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 339: <ul>
1.242 jufi 340:
1.247 jufi 341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 342: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 343: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
344: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 345: </strong></font><br>
346: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
347: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
348: <p>
349:
1.247 jufi 350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 351: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 352: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
353: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 354: </strong></font><br>
355: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
356: this time using pf.
357: <p>
1.247 jufi 358: </ul>
1.242 jufi 359:
360: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 361: <ul>
1.242 jufi 362:
1.247 jufi 363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 364: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 365: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
366: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 367: </strong></font><br>
368: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
369: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
370: their rotation.
371: <p>
372:
1.247 jufi 373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 374: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 375: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
376: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 377: </strong></font><br>
378: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
379: <p>
1.247 jufi 380: </ul>
1.242 jufi 381:
1.239 jufi 382: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 383: <ul>
1.239 jufi 384:
1.247 jufi 385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 386: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 387: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
388: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 389: </strong></font><br>
390: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
391: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
392: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
393: <p>
394:
1.247 jufi 395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 396: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 397: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
398: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 399: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 400: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
401: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
402: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 403: <p>
1.247 jufi 404: </ul>
1.239 jufi 405:
1.235 lebel 406: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 407: <ul>
1.235 lebel 408:
1.239 jufi 409:
1.247 jufi 410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 411: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 412: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
413: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 414: </strong></font><br>
415: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
416: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
417: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
418: <p>
1.247 jufi 419: </ul>
1.235 lebel 420:
1.228 horacio 421: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 422: <ul>
1.228 horacio 423:
1.247 jufi 424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 425: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 426: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
427: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 428: </strong></font><br>
429: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
430: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
431: <p>
432:
1.247 jufi 433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 434: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 435: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
436: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 437: </strong></font><br>
438: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
439: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
440: <p>
441:
1.247 jufi 442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 443: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 444: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
445: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 446: </strong></font><br>
447: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
448: on the desktop of his parents.
449: <p>
450:
1.247 jufi 451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 452: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 453: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
454: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 455: </strong></font><br>
456: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
457: using IPFilter.
458:
459: <p>
460:
1.247 jufi 461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 462: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 463: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
464: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 465: </strong></font><br>
466: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
467: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
468: perspectives of the four OS.
469: <br>
470: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 471: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 472: <p>
473:
1.247 jufi 474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 475: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
476: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 477: software and security</a>,
478: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 479: </strong></font><br>
480:
481: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
482: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
483: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
484: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
485: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
486: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
487: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
488: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
489: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
490: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
491: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
492: security conscious team beyond doubt.
493: <p>
1.247 jufi 494: </ul>
1.228 horacio 495:
1.225 horacio 496: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 497: <ul>
1.225 horacio 498:
1.247 jufi 499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 500: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
501: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 502: Interview</a>,
503: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 504: </strong></font><br>
505:
506: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
507: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
508: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 509: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 510: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
511: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
512: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
513: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
514: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 515: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 516: of choice.
517: <p>
1.247 jufi 518: </ul>
1.225 horacio 519:
520: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 521: <ul>
1.225 horacio 522:
1.247 jufi 523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 524: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 525: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
526: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 527: </strong></font><br>
528:
529: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
530: <p>
531:
1.247 jufi 532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 533: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 534: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
535: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 536: </strong></font><br>
537:
538: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
539: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
540: <p>
1.247 jufi 541: </ul>
1.225 horacio 542:
1.218 horacio 543: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 544: <ul>
1.218 horacio 545:
1.247 jufi 546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 547: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 548: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
549: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 550: </strong></font><br>
551:
552: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
553: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
554: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
555: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
556: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
557: subjects. Worth a read.
558: <p>
559:
560:
1.247 jufi 561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 562: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 563: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
564: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 565: </strong></font><br>
566:
567: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
568: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
569: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
570: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
571: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
572: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
573: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
574: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
575: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 576: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 577: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
578: on other operating systems.<br>
579: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
580: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
581: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
582: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
583: <p>
584:
1.247 jufi 585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 586: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 587: Operating System 2010</a>,
588: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 589: </strong></font><br>
590:
591: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
592: covering the level of software integration into the core
593: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
594: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
595: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
596: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
597: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
598: <p>
599:
1.247 jufi 600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 601: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 602: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
603: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 604: </strong></font><br>
605:
606: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
607: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
608: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
609: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
610: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
611: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
612: <p>
1.247 jufi 613: </ul>
1.221 horacio 614:
1.210 jufi 615: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 616: <ul>
1.215 horacio 617:
1.247 jufi 618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 619: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 620: Already a Contender</a>,
621: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 622: </strong></font><br>
623:
624: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
625: source software in response to an article which claimed that
626: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
627: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
628: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
629: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
630: <p>
631:
1.247 jufi 632: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 633: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 634: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
635: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 636: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 637:
1.224 horacio 638: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
639: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
640: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
641: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
642: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
643: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 644: <p>
1.247 jufi 645: </ul>
1.215 horacio 646:
647: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 648: <ul>
1.215 horacio 649:
1.247 jufi 650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 651: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
652: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 653: Division</a>,
654: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 655: </strong></font><br>
656:
657: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
658: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 659: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 660: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
661: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
662: investment</em>.<br>
663: The implementation details can be seen on their
664: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
665: <p>
666:
1.247 jufi 667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 668: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 669: Thinking about Security</a>,
670: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 671: </strong></font><br>
672:
673: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
674: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
675: security and says that even secured operating systems running
676: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
677: to time.<br>
678: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
679: system and just the most secure system.
680: <p>
681:
1.247 jufi 682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 683: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 684: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
685: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 686: </strong></font><br>
687:
688: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
689: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
690: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
691: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
692: choice:<br>
693: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
694: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
695: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
696: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
697: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
698: network security devices and as such must be well
699: armored."</em><br>
700: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
701: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
702: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
703: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
704: <br>
705: Bravo!
706: <p>
1.247 jufi 707: </ul>
1.210 jufi 708:
1.207 ian 709: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 710: <ul>
1.215 horacio 711:
1.247 jufi 712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 713: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
714: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
715: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 716:
1.207 ian 717: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
718: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 719: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 720: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
721: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
722: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 723: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 724: <p>
1.247 jufi 725: </ul>
1.207 ian 726:
1.194 jufi 727: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 728: <ul>
1.194 jufi 729:
1.247 jufi 730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 731: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 732: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
733: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 734: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 735:
1.240 miod 736: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 737: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
738: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
739: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
740: <p>
741:
1.247 jufi 742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 743: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 744: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
745: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
746: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 747:
1.240 miod 748: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 749: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 750: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
751: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
752: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 753: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 754: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
755: <br>
756: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
757: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
758: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
759: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
760: <p>
761:
1.247 jufi 762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 763: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
764: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 765: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 766: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 767:
1.194 jufi 768: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
769: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
770: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
771: <br>
772: The new
773: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 774: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 775: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
776: <p>
1.247 jufi 777: </ul>
1.194 jufi 778:
1.190 horacio 779: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 780: <ul>
1.190 horacio 781:
1.247 jufi 782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 783:
784: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
785: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
786:
787: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
788: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
789:
790: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
791: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
792:
1.212 horacio 793: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
794: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 795: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
796:
1.211 horacio 797: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
798: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 799: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
800:
1.247 jufi 801: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 802: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
803:
1.247 jufi 804: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 805: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
806:
1.212 horacio 807: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
808: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 809: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
810:
811: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
812: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
813:
814: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
815: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
816:
817: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
818: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
819:
820: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 821: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 822:
1.192 jufi 823: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
824: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 825: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 826:
1.193 deraadt 827: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
828: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 829: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 830:
1.247 jufi 831: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 832: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
833:
1.247 jufi 834: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 835: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
836: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
837:
1.213 horacio 838: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 839: 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 840: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
841:
1.190 horacio 842: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 843: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
844: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
845: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
846: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
847: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
848: <p>
1.190 horacio 849:
1.247 jufi 850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 851: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
852: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
853: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 854: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 855:
1.195 jufi 856: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 857: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
858: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
859: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 860: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
861: <p>
862:
1.247 jufi 863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 864: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 865: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
866: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
867: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 868:
1.191 jufi 869: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
870: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
871: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
872: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 873: <p>
1.247 jufi 874: </ul>
1.190 horacio 875:
1.191 jufi 876:
1.186 jufi 877: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 878: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 879:
1.247 jufi 880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 881: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 882: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
883: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 884: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 885:
1.188 jufi 886: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 887: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 888: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 889: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
890: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 891: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 892: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 893: <p>
894:
1.191 jufi 895:
1.247 jufi 896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 897: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
898: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
899: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 900: </strong></font><br>
901:
902: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
903: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
904: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
905: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
906: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
907: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
908: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
909: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
910: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
911: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
912: familiar?
913: <p>
1.247 jufi 914: </ul>
1.191 jufi 915:
1.178 louis 916: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 917: <ul>
1.178 louis 918:
1.247 jufi 919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 920: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 921: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
922: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 923: </strong></font><br>
924:
925: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
926: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
927: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
928: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
929: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
930: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
931: <p>
932:
1.247 jufi 933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 934: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
935: Open source under the hood</a>,
936: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 937: </strong></font><br>
938:
939: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
940: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
941: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
942: <p>
943:
1.247 jufi 944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 945: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
946: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
947: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 948: </strong></font><br>
949:
950: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
951: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
952: <p>
1.247 jufi 953: </ul>
1.179 louis 954:
1.174 louis 955:
1.175 louis 956: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 957: <ul>
1.175 louis 958:
1.247 jufi 959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 960: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
961: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
962: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 963: </strong></font><br>
964:
965: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
966: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
967: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
968: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
969: <p>
970:
1.247 jufi 971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 972: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
973: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
974: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 975: </strong></font><br>
976:
977: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 978: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 979: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
980: <p>
1.247 jufi 981: </ul>
1.175 louis 982:
1.176 louis 983:
1.172 mickey 984: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 985: <ul>
1.172 mickey 986:
1.247 jufi 987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 988: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
989: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 990: </strong></font><br>
991:
992: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
993: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
994: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 995: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 996: <p>
997:
1.247 jufi 998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 999: <a
1.269 deraadt 1000: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1001: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1002: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1003: </strong></font><br>
1004:
1005: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1006: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1007: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1008: <p>
1009:
1.247 jufi 1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1011: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1012: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1013: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1014: </strong></font><br>
1015:
1016: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1017: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1018: <p>
1019:
1.247 jufi 1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1021: <a
1.269 deraadt 1022: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1023: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1024: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1025: </strong></font><br>
1026:
1027: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1028: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1029: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1030: our own Theo de Raadt.
1031: <p>
1032:
1.247 jufi 1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1034: <a
1.269 deraadt 1035: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1036: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1037: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1038: </strong></font><br>
1039:
1040: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1041: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1042: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1043: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1044: shut down.]
1045: <p>
1046:
1.247 jufi 1047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1048: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1049: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1050: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1051: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1052: </strong></font><br>
1053:
1054: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1055: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1056: <p>
1.247 jufi 1057: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1058:
1.161 louis 1059: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1060: <ul>
1.161 louis 1061:
1.247 jufi 1062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1063: <a
1.269 deraadt 1064: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1065: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1066: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1067: </strong></font><br>
1068:
1069: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1070: by John Wolley
1071: <p>
1072:
1.247 jufi 1073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1074: <a
1.269 deraadt 1075: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1076: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1077: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1078: </strong></font><br>
1079:
1080: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1081: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1082: OpenBSD).
1083: <p>
1084:
1.247 jufi 1085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1086: <a
1.247 jufi 1087: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1088: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1092: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1093: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1094: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1095: and hindsight.
1096: <p>
1097:
1.247 jufi 1098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1099: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1100: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1101: </strong></font><br>
1102:
1103: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1104: <p>
1105:
1.247 jufi 1106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1107: <a
1.168 provos 1108: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1109: December 7, 2000
1110: </strong></font><br>
1111:
1112: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1113: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1114: us explain.
1115: <p>
1116:
1.247 jufi 1117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1118: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1119: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1120: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1121: December 6, 2000
1122: </strong></font><br>
1123:
1124: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1125: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1126: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1127: <p>
1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1130: <a
1.226 horacio 1131: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1132: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1133: </strong></font><br>
1134:
1135: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1136: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1137: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1138: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1139: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1140: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1141: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1142: <p>
1.162 millert 1143:
1.247 jufi 1144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1145: <a
1.161 louis 1146: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1147: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1148: </strong></font><br>
1149:
1150: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1151: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1152: <p>
1153:
1.247 jufi 1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1155: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1156: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1157: </strong></font><br>
1158:
1159: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1160: <p>
1161:
1162:
1.247 jufi 1163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1164: <a
1.226 horacio 1165: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1166: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1167: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1168: </strong></font><br>
1169:
1170: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1171: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1172: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1173: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1174: <p>
1.247 jufi 1175: </ul>
1.169 louis 1176:
1.158 louis 1177: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1178: <ul>
1.147 louis 1179:
1.247 jufi 1180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1181: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1182: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1183: </strong></font><br>
1184:
1185: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1186: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1187: <p>
1188:
1.247 jufi 1189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1190: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1191: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1192: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1193: </strong></font><br>
1194: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1195: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1196: <p>
1197:
1.247 jufi 1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1199: <a
1200: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1201: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1202: </strong></font><br>
1203:
1204: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1205: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1206: <p>
1207:
1.247 jufi 1208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1209: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1210: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1211: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1212:
1.213 horacio 1213: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1214: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1215: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1216: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1217: <p>
1.215 horacio 1218:
1.247 jufi 1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1220: <a
1221: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1222: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1223: </strong></font><br>
1224:
1225: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1226: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1227: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1228: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1229: much of the attitude too).
1230: <p>
1.161 louis 1231:
1.247 jufi 1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1233: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1234: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1235: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1236:
1.157 louis 1237: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1238: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1239: <p>
1.247 jufi 1240: </ul>
1.157 louis 1241:
1242: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1243: <ul>
1.157 louis 1244:
1.247 jufi 1245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1246: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1247: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1248: </strong></font><br>
1249:
1250: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1251: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1252: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1253: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1254: <p>
1255:
1.247 jufi 1256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1257: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1258: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1259: </strong></font><br>
1260:
1261: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1262: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1263: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1264: it because they love coding...
1265: <p>
1266:
1.247 jufi 1267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1268: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1269: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1270: </strong></font><br>
1271:
1272: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1273: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1274: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1275: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1276: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1277: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1278: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1279: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1280: <p>
1281:
1.247 jufi 1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1283: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1284: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1285: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1286: </strong></font><br>
1287:
1288: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1289: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1290: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1291: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1292: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1293: the pizza.
1294: <p>
1295:
1.247 jufi 1296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1297: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1298: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1299: </strong></font><br>
1300:
1301: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1302: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1303: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1304: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1305: problems.
1306: <p>
1307:
1.247 jufi 1308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1309: <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 1310: </strong></font><br>
1311:
1.222 miod 1312: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1313: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1314: - whether they like it or not.
1315: <p>
1316:
1.247 jufi 1317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1318: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1319: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1320: </strong></font><br>
1321:
1322: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1323: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1324: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1325: <p>
1.148 aaron 1326:
1.247 jufi 1327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1328: <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 1329: </strong></font><br>
1330:
1331: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1332: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1333: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1334: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1335: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1336: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1337: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1338: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1339: <p>
1340:
1.247 jufi 1341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1342: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1343: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1344: </strong></font><br>
1345:
1346: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1347: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1348: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1349: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1350: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1351: <p>
1.247 jufi 1352: </ul>
1.147 louis 1353:
1.138 louis 1354: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1355: <ul>
1.138 louis 1356:
1.247 jufi 1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1358: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1359: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1360: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1361: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1362: </strong></font><br>
1363:
1.227 horacio 1364: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1365: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1366: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1367: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1368: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1369: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1370: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1371: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1372: <p>
1373:
1.247 jufi 1374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1375: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1376: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1377: </strong></font><br>
1378:
1379: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1380: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1381: groups, and even Linux.
1382: <p>
1383:
1.247 jufi 1384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1385: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1386: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1387: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1388: </strong></font><br>
1389:
1390: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1391: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1392: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1393: library after installing the OS.
1394: <p>
1395:
1.247 jufi 1396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1397: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1398: Sys Admin, September 2000
1399: </strong></font><br>
1400:
1401: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1402: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1403: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1404: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1405: (<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>,
1406: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1407: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1408: <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 1409: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1410: out of the system.
1411: <p>
1412:
1.247 jufi 1413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1414: <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
1415: </strong></font><br>
1416:
1417: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1418: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1419: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1420: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1421: the IP filtering and address translation.
1422: <p>
1.247 jufi 1423: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1424:
1.131 louis 1425: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1426: <ul>
1.131 louis 1427:
1.247 jufi 1428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1429: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1430: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1431: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1432: </strong></font><br>
1433:
1434: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1435: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1436: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1437: <p>
1438:
1.247 jufi 1439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1440: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1441: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1442: </strong></font><br>
1443:
1444: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1445: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1446: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1447: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1448: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1449: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1450: note of"</i>.
1451: <p>
1452:
1.247 jufi 1453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1454: <a
1.247 jufi 1455: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1456: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1457: </strong></font><br>
1458:
1459: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1460: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1461: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1462: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1463: <p>
1464:
1.247 jufi 1465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1466: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1467: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1468: </strong></font><br>
1469:
1470: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1471: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1472: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1473: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1474: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1475: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1476: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1477: <p>
1478:
1.247 jufi 1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1480: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1481: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1482: 2000
1483: </strong></font><br>
1484:
1485: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1486: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1487: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1488: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1489: against current industry practices.
1490: <p>
1491:
1.247 jufi 1492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1493: <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
1494: </strong></font><br>
1495:
1496: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1497: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1498: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1499: <p>
1500:
1.247 jufi 1501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1502: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1503: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1504: </strong></font><br>
1505:
1506: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1507: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1508: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1509: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1510: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1511: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1512: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1513: <p>
1514:
1.247 jufi 1515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1516: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1517: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1518: </strong></font><br>
1519:
1520: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1521: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1522: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1523: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1524: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1525: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1526: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1527: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1528: <p>
1.247 jufi 1529: </ul>
1.131 louis 1530:
1.118 louis 1531: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1532: <ul>
1.118 louis 1533:
1.247 jufi 1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1535: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1536: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1537: </strong></font><br>
1538:
1539: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1540: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1541: about time. The article mentions that
1542: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1543: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1544: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1545: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1546: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1547: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1548: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1549: <p>
1550:
1.247 jufi 1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1552: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1553: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1554: </strong></font><br>
1555:
1556: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1557: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1558: of OpenSSH.
1559: <p>
1560:
1.247 jufi 1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1562: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1563: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1564: </strong></font><br>
1565:
1566: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1567: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1568: bridging.
1569: <p>
1570:
1.247 jufi 1571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1572: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1573: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1574: </strong></font><br>
1575:
1.121 deraadt 1576: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1577: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1578: <p>
1579:
1.247 jufi 1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1581: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1582: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1583: </strong></font><br>
1584:
1585: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1586: <p>
1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1589: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1590: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1591: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1592: </strong></font><br>
1593:
1.120 deraadt 1594: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1595: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1596: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1597: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1598: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1599: <p>
1600:
1.247 jufi 1601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1602: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1603: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1604: </strong></font><br>
1605:
1.222 miod 1606: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1607: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1608: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1609: protocols and their quirks.
1610: <p>
1611:
1.247 jufi 1612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1613: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1614: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1615: </strong></font><br>
1616:
1617: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1618: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1619: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1620: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1621: <p>
1622:
1.247 jufi 1623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1624: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1625: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1626: </strong></font><br>
1627:
1628: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1629: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1630: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1631: <p>
1632:
1.247 jufi 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1634: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1635: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1636: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1637: </strong></font><br>
1638:
1639: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1640: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1641: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1642: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1643: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1644: <p>
1.247 jufi 1645: </ul>
1.118 louis 1646:
1.104 louis 1647: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1648: <ul>
1.104 louis 1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1651: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1652: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1653: </strong></font><br>
1654:
1655: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1656: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1657: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1658: be a bit dry.
1659: <p>
1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1662: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1663: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1664: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1665: </strong></font><br>
1666: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1667: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1668: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1669: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1670: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1671: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1672: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1673: <p>
1674:
1.247 jufi 1675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1676: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1677: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1678: 2000
1.128 louis 1679: </strong></font><br>
1680:
1681: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1682: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1683: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1684: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1685: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1686: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1687: <p>
1688:
1.247 jufi 1689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1690: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1691: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1692: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1693:
1694: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1695: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1696: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1697: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1698: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1699: <p>
1.110 louis 1700:
1.247 jufi 1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1702: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1703: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1704: </strong></font><br>
1705:
1706: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1707: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1708: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1709: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1710: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1711: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1712: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1713: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1714: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1715: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1716: <p>
1717:
1.247 jufi 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1719: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1720: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1721:
1722: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1723: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1724: <p>
1.108 louis 1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1727: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1728: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1729: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1730:
1731: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1732: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1733: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1734: <p>
1.106 louis 1735:
1.247 jufi 1736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1737: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1738: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1739: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1740:
1741: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1742: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1743: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1744: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1745: <p>
1.107 louis 1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1748: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1749: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1750: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1751:
1752: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1753: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1754: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1755: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1756: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1757: <p>
1.105 louis 1758:
1.247 jufi 1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1760: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1761: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1762: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1763:
1.113 naddy 1764: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1765: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1766: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1767: <p>
1.104 louis 1768:
1.247 jufi 1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1770: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1771: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1772: </strong></font><br>
1773:
1774: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1775: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1776: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1777: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1778: <p>
1.247 jufi 1779: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1780:
1.85 louis 1781: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1782: <ul>
1.85 louis 1783:
1.247 jufi 1784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1785: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1786: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1787: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1788:
1789: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1790: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1791: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1792: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1793: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1794: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1795: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1796: <p>
1.99 louis 1797:
1.247 jufi 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1799: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1800: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1801: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1802:
1803: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1804: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1805: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1806: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1807: <p>
1.100 louis 1808:
1.247 jufi 1809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1810: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1811: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1812: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1813:
1814: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1815: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1816: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1817: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1818: <p>
1.95 louis 1819:
1.247 jufi 1820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1821: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1822: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1823: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1824:
1825: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1826: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1827: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1828: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1829: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1830: <p>
1.92 louis 1831:
1.247 jufi 1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1833: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1834: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1835: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1836:
1837: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1838: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1839: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1840: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1841: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1842: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1843: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1844: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1845: <p>
1.91 louis 1846:
1.247 jufi 1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1848: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1849: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1850: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1851:
1852: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1853: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1854: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1855: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1856: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1857: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1858: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1859: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1860: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1861: <p>
1.90 louis 1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1864: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1865: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1866: </strong></font><br>
1867: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1868: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1869: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1870: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1871: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1872: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1873: <p>
1874:
1.247 jufi 1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1876: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1877: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1878: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1879:
1.113 naddy 1880: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1881: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1882: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1883: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1884: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1885: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1886: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1887: <p>
1.87 louis 1888:
1.247 jufi 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1890: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1891: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1892: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1893:
1894: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 1895: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1896: <p>
1.85 louis 1897:
1.247 jufi 1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 1899: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1900: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1901: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1902:
1903: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1904: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1905: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1906: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1907: <p>
1.89 louis 1908:
1.247 jufi 1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 1910: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1911: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1912: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1913:
1914: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1915: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1916: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1917: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1918: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 1919: </ul>
1.85 louis 1920:
1.78 deraadt 1921: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1922: <ul>
1.74 louis 1923:
1.247 jufi 1924: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1925: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1926: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1927: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1928: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1929:
1930: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1931: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1932: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.83 louis 1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 1936: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1937: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1938: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1939:
1940: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1941: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 1942: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1943: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1944: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1945: <p>
1.93 louis 1946:
1.247 jufi 1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1948: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
1949: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
1950: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1951: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1952:
1.83 louis 1953: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1954: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1955: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1956: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1957: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1958: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1959: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1960: <p>
1.82 aaron 1961:
1.247 jufi 1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1963: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1964: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1965: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1966:
1.83 louis 1967: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1968: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1969: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1970: <p>
1.80 louis 1971:
1.247 jufi 1972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1973: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1974: Bad Press</a>,
1975: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1976: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1977:
1978: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1979: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1980: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1981: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1982: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1983: <p>
1.247 jufi 1984: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 1985:
1986: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1987: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1990: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1991: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1992: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1993: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1994:
1995: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1996: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1997: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1998: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1999: <p>
1.74 louis 2000:
1.247 jufi 2001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2002: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2003: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2004: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2005:
1.219 horacio 2006: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2007: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2008: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2009: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2010: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2011: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2012: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2013: <p>
1.88 louis 2014:
1.247 jufi 2015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2016: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2017: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2018: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2019:
2020: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2021: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2022: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2023: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2024: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2025: <p>
1.81 louis 2026:
1.247 jufi 2027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2028: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2029: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2030: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2031:
2032: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2033: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2034: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2035: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2036: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2037: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2038: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2039: <p>
1.90 louis 2040:
1.247 jufi 2041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2042: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2043: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2044: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2045:
2046: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2047: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2048: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2049: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2050: <p>
1.247 jufi 2051: </ul>
1.71 louis 2052:
1.69 deraadt 2053: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2054: <ul>
1.70 louis 2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2057: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2058: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2059: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2060:
2061: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2062: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2063: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2064: <p>
1.70 louis 2065:
1.247 jufi 2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2067: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2068: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2069: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2070:
2071: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2072: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2073: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2074: <p>
1.68 louis 2075:
1.247 jufi 2076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2077: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2078: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2079: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2080: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2081:
1.111 jufi 2082: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2083: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2084: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2085: "secure by default" installation.
2086: <p>
1.64 louis 2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2089: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2090: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2091: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2092:
1.113 naddy 2093: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2094: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2095: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2096: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2097: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2098: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2099: <p>
1.66 louis 2100:
1.247 jufi 2101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2102: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2103: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2104: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2105:
2106: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2107: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2108: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2109: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2110: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2111: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2112: <p>
1.83 louis 2113:
1.247 jufi 2114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2115: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2116: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2117: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2118:
2119: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2120: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2121: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2122: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2123: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2124: <p>
1.64 louis 2125:
1.247 jufi 2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2127: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2128: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2129: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2130:
2131: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2132: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2133: <p>
1.247 jufi 2134: </ul>
1.65 louis 2135:
1.69 deraadt 2136: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2137: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2138:
1.247 jufi 2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2140: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2141: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2142: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2143:
2144: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2145: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2146: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2147: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2148: <p>
1.88 louis 2149:
1.247 jufi 2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2151: <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 2152: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2153:
2154: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2155: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2156: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2157: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2158: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2159: <p>
1.60 louis 2160:
1.247 jufi 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2162: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2163: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2164: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2165: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2166:
2167: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2168: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2169: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2170: <p>
1.58 louis 2171:
1.247 jufi 2172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2173: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2174: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2175:
2176: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2177: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2178: <p>
1.53 louis 2179:
1.247 jufi 2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2181: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2182: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2183: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2184:
2185: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2186: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2187: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2188: <p>
1.99 louis 2189:
1.247 jufi 2190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2191: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2192: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2193:
2194: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2195: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2196: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2197: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2198: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2199:
1.247 jufi 2200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2201: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2202: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2203: </strong></font><br>
2204:
2205: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2206: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2207: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2208: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2209: <p>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2212: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2213: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2214: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2215:
2216: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2217: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2218: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2219:
1.247 jufi 2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2221: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2222: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2223:
2224: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2225: in
1.247 jufi 2226: <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 2227: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2228: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2229: <p>
1.53 louis 2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2232: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2233: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2234: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2235: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2236:
1.58 louis 2237: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2238: <p>
1.247 jufi 2239: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2240:
1.69 deraadt 2241: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2242: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2245: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2246: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2247: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2248: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2249:
1.58 louis 2250: Kurt Seifried
2251: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2252: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2253: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2254: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2255:
1.247 jufi 2256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2257: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2258: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2259: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2260:
2261: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2262: <p>
1.96 louis 2263:
1.247 jufi 2264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2265: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2266: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2267: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2268:
2269: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2270: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2271: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2272: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2273: <p>
1.247 jufi 2274: </ul>
1.86 louis 2275:
1.69 deraadt 2276: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2277: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2278:
1.247 jufi 2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2280: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2281: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2282: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2283:
2284: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2285: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2286: <p>
1.61 louis 2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2289: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2290: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2291: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2292: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2293:
2294: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2295: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2296: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2297: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2298: right -- or at least strives to".
2299: <p>
1.48 louis 2300:
1.247 jufi 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2302: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2303: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2304: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2305: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2306: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2307: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2308: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2309: <p>
1.61 louis 2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <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 2312: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2313: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2314:
2315: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2316: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2317: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2318: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2319: <p>
1.46 louis 2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2322: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2323: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2324: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2325:
2326: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2327: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2328: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2331: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2332: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2333: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2334:
2335: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2336: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2337: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2338: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2339: <p>
1.247 jufi 2340: </ul>
1.70 louis 2341:
1.69 deraadt 2342: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2343: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2344:
1.247 jufi 2345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2346: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2347: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2348: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2349: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2350:
2351: Kurt Seifried
2352: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2353: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2354: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2355: <p>
1.44 philen 2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <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 2358: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2359: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2360:
2361: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2362: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2363:
1.247 jufi 2364: <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 2365: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2366: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2367:
2368: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2369: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <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 2372: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2373: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2374:
2375: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2376: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2377: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2378: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2379: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2380:
1.247 jufi 2381: <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 2382: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2383: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2384:
1.36 louis 2385: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2386: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2387:
1.247 jufi 2388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2389: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2390: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2391: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2392:
2393: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2394: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2395: </ul>
1.38 louis 2396:
1.69 deraadt 2397: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2398: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2399:
1.247 jufi 2400: <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 2401: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2402: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2403:
2404: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2405: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2406: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2407:
1.113 naddy 2408: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2409: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2410: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2411: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2412:
2413: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2414: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2415: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2416: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2417: <blockquote>
2418: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2419: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2420: <br>
2421: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2422: </code>
2423: </blockquote>
2424: <p>
2425:
1.247 jufi 2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2427: <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>
2428: <p>
2429:
2430: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2431: <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 2432: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2433:
2434: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2435: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2436: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2437: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2440: <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 2441: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2442:
2443: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2444: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2445: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2446: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2447: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2448: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2449: <p>
1.19 louis 2450:
1.113 naddy 2451: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2452: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2453: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2454:
2455: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2456: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2457: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2458: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2459: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2460: <p>
1.16 louis 2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2463: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2464: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2465: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2466:
1.57 louis 2467: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2468: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2469: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2470: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2471:
1.247 jufi 2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2473: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2474: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2475: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2476:
1.113 naddy 2477: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2480: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2481: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2482: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2483:
1.23 louis 2484: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2485: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2486: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2487: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2488: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2489: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2490:
1.247 jufi 2491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2492: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2493: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2494: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2495:
1.199 pvalchev 2496: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2497: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2498: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2499: installation.
1.113 naddy 2500: <p>
1.47 louis 2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2503: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2504: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2505: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2506:
2507: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2508: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2509: </ul>
1.57 louis 2510:
1.69 deraadt 2511: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2512: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2513:
1.247 jufi 2514: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2515: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2516: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2517: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2518:
2519: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2520: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2521: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2522: <p>
1.12 louis 2523:
1.247 jufi 2524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2525: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2526: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2527: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2528:
2529: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2530: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2531: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2532: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2533: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2534: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2535: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2536: <p>
1.247 jufi 2537: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2538:
1.69 deraadt 2539: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2540: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2541:
1.247 jufi 2542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2543: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2544: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2545:
2546: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2547: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2548: available."
1.113 naddy 2549: <p>
1.247 jufi 2550: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2551:
1.69 deraadt 2552: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2553: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2554:
1.247 jufi 2555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2556: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2557: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2558:
2559: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2560: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2561: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2562: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2563: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2564: <p>
1.33 louis 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2567: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2568: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2569: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2570:
1.113 naddy 2571: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2572: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2573: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2574: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2575: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2576: <p>
1.247 jufi 2577: </ul>
1.57 louis 2578:
1.69 deraadt 2579: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2580: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2583: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2584: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2585: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2586:
2587: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2588: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2589: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2590:
1.247 jufi 2591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2592: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2593: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2594: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2595: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2596:
2597: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2598: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2601: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2602:
1.113 naddy 2603: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2604:
1.247 jufi 2605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2606: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2607: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2608: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2609:
2610: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2611: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2612: </ul>
1.23 louis 2613:
1.69 deraadt 2614: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2615: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2618: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2619: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2620:
2621: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2622: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2623: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2624:
1.247 jufi 2625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2626: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2627: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2628: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2629:
2630: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2631: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2632: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2633: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2634: </ul>
1.57 louis 2635:
1.69 deraadt 2636: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2637: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2638:
1.247 jufi 2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2640: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2641: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2642: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2643:
2644: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2645: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2646: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2647: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2648: <p>
1.15 louis 2649:
1.247 jufi 2650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2651: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2652: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2653: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2654:
2655: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2656: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2657: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2658: columns."
1.113 naddy 2659: <p>
1.247 jufi 2660: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2661:
1.69 deraadt 2662: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2663: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2664:
1.247 jufi 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2666: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2667: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2668: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2669:
2670: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2671: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2672:
1.113 naddy 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2674: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2675: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2676:
2677: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2678: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2679: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2680: </ul>
1.57 louis 2681:
1.69 deraadt 2682: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2683: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2684:
1.113 naddy 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2686: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2687: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2688: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2689:
1.222 miod 2690: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2691: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2692: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2693: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2694: <p>
1.247 jufi 2695: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2696:
1.69 deraadt 2697: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2698: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2701: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2702: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2703:
1.69 deraadt 2704: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2705: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2706: <p>
1.247 jufi 2707: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2708:
1.69 deraadt 2709: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2710: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2713: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2714: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2715: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2716:
2717: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2718: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2719: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2722: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2723: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2724: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2725: <p>
1.247 jufi 2726: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2727:
1.69 deraadt 2728: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2729: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2730:
1.247 jufi 2731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2732: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2733: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2734: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2735: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2736: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2737:
2738: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2739: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2740: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2741: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2742: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2743: <p>
1.247 jufi 2744: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2745:
2746: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2747: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2750: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2751: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2752:
1.69 deraadt 2753: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2754: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2755: <p>
1.112 naddy 2756:
1.247 jufi 2757: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2758: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2759:
1.113 naddy 2760: <hr>
2761: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2762: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2763:
1.200 niklas 2764: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <ul>
2767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2768: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2769: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2770:
2771: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2772: <p>
2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2775:
2776: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2777:
1.247 jufi 2778: <ul>
2779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2780: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2781: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2782:
2783: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2784: <p>
2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2787: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2788: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2789:
2790: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2791: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2792: <p>
2793:
1.247 jufi 2794: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2795:
2796: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2797:
1.247 jufi 2798: <ul>
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2800: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2801: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2802:
2803: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2804: <p>
2805:
1.247 jufi 2806: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2807:
1.102 niklas 2808: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2809:
1.247 jufi 2810: <ul>
2811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2812: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2813: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2814:
2815: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2816: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2817: <p>
1.102 niklas 2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2820:
1.84 niklas 2821: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2822:
1.247 jufi 2823: <ul>
2824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2825: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2826: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2827:
2828: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2829: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2830: <p>
1.84 niklas 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2833:
1.69 deraadt 2834: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2835:
1.247 jufi 2836: <ul>
2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2838: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2839: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2840:
1.222 miod 2841: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2842: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2843: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2844: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2847: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2848: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2849: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2850: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2851:
1.20 louis 2852: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2853: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2854: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2855: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2856: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2859:
1.113 naddy 2860: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2861: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2862: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2863:
2864:
2865: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2866: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2867:
1.247 jufi 2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2869: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2870: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2871:
2872: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2873: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2874: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2875:
2876: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2877: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2880:
2881:
1.170 louis 2882: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2883: <ul>
1.170 louis 2884:
1.247 jufi 2885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 2886: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2887: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2888: </strong></font><br>
2889:
2890: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2891: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2892: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2893: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2894: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2895: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 2896: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 2897: <p>
1.247 jufi 2898: </ul>
1.170 louis 2899:
1.69 deraadt 2900: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2901: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2902:
1.247 jufi 2903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 2904: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2905: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2906: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2907:
2908: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2909: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2910: translating and reprinting articles from
2911: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2912: <p>
1.247 jufi 2913: </ul>
1.20 louis 2914:
1.113 naddy 2915: <hr>
2916: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 2917: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 2918:
1.246 jufi 2919: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 2920: <ul>
2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 2922: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
2923: December 04, 2002
2924: </strong></font><br>
2925: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
2926: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
2927: <p>
1.247 jufi 2928: </ul>
1.246 jufi 2929:
1.151 louis 2930: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2931: <ul>
1.151 louis 2932:
1.247 jufi 2933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 2934: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2935: </strong></font><br>
2936:
2937: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2938: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2939: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2940: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2941: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2942: <p>
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.151 louis 2944:
1.72 louis 2945: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2946: <ul>
1.72 louis 2947:
1.247 jufi 2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2949: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2950: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2951: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2952:
1.101 jufi 2953: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2954: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2955: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2956: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2957: Giving way to
2958: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2959: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2960: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2961: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2962: <p>
1.247 jufi 2963: </ul>
1.72 louis 2964:
1.69 deraadt 2965: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2966: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2969: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2970: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2971: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2972:
2973: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2974: <p>
1.247 jufi 2975: </ul>
1.112 naddy 2976:
1.50 louis 2977:
1.113 naddy 2978: <hr>
2979: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 2980: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 2981:
1.69 deraadt 2982: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2983: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2984:
1.247 jufi 2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2986: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2987: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 2988: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2989:
2990: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2991: <p>
1.247 jufi 2992: </ul>
1.62 form 2993:
1.69 deraadt 2994: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2995: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2996:
1.247 jufi 2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2998: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 2999: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3000: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3001:
1.59 form 3002: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3003: <p>
1.112 naddy 3004:
1.247 jufi 3005: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3006:
1.113 naddy 3007: <hr>
3008: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3009: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3010: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3011:
1.247 jufi 3012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3013: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3014: Radio, August 2, 2000
3015: </strong></font><br>
3016:
3017: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3018: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3019: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3020: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3021: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3022: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3023: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3024: <p>
3025:
1.247 jufi 3026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3027: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3028: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3029: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3030: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3031:
3032: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3033: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3034: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3035: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3036: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3037: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3038: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3039: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3040: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3041: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3042: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3043: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3044: <p>
1.247 jufi 3045: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3046:
1.113 naddy 3047: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3048: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3049: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3050:
3051: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3052: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3053:
1.247 jufi 3054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3055: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3056: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3057: </strong></font><br>
3058:
3059: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3060: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3061: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3062: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3063: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3064: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3065: A
1.216 horacio 3066: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3067: <p>
1.247 jufi 3068: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3069:
1.252 miod 3070: <hr>
3071: <a name=fr></a>
3072: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3073:
3074: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3075: <ul>
3076:
3077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3078: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3079: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3080: </strong></font><br>
3081:
3082: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3083: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3084: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3085: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3086: <p>
3087: </ul>
3088:
1.216 horacio 3089:
3090: <hr>
3091: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3092: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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