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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>
1.281 ! dhartmei 62: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.267 deraadt 63: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 64: <p>
65:
66: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 67: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
68: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 69: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 70: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 71: </strong></font><br>
72: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 73: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
74: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
75: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
76: <ul>
77: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
78: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 79: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 80: ABC News.
81: </strong></font>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
84: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
85: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
86: Seattle Post Intelligencer.
87: </strong></font>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
90: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 91: [Article was pulled]</a>,
92: Lakeland Ledger
1.273 deraadt 93: </strong></font>
94:
95: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 96: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
97: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
98: Salon
99: </strong></font>
100:
101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 102: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 103: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 104: Times Daily, AL.
105: </strong></font>
106:
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
108: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
109: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
110: Boston.com, MA.
111: </strong></font>
112:
113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
114: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 115: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 116: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
117: </strong></font>
118:
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 120: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
121: [Article was pulled]</a>
122: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 123: </strong></font>
124:
125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
126: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
127: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
128: Infoshop News.
129: </strong></font>
130:
131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
132: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
133: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
134: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
135: </strong></font>
136:
137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
138: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
139: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
140: NEPA News, PA.
141: </strong></font>
142:
143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
144: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
145: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
146: Wired News.
147: </strong></font>
148:
1.271 deraadt 149: </ul>
150: <p>
1.272 deraadt 151: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
152: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 153: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
154: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
155: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
156: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
157: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
158: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
159: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
160: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
161: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
162: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 163: <p>
164: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 165:
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
167: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
168: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
169: Miami Herald, FL.
170: </strong></font>
171:
172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.275 deraadt 173: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.280 jsyn 174: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.275 deraadt 175: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
176: </strong></font>
177:
178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
179: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 180: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 181: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 182: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 183:
184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
185: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
186: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
187: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
188: ABC News.
189: </strong></font>
190:
1.276 deraadt 191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
192: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
193: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
194: Rapid City Journal, SD
195: </strong></font>
196:
1.263 deraadt 197: </ul>
1.262 beck 198: <p>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 201: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
202: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 203: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 204: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 205: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 206: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
207: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
208: <p>
209:
210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 211: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
212: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
213: OS News, April 18, 2003.
214: </strong></font><br>
215: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
216: <p>
217:
218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 219: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
220: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 221: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 222: </strong></font><br>
223: Another report on the DARPA funding.
224: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
225: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 229: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
230: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 231: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 232: </strong></font><br>
233: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
234: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
235: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
236: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
237: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
238: Goes on to say:
239: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
240: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
241: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
242: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 243: This article is also found online at:
244: <ul>
245: <li><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
246: BusinessWeek.com</a>
247: <li><a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">ZDnet</a>
248: </ul>
1.260 ian 249: <p>
1.279 deraadt 250:
1.260 ian 251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
252: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
253: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 254: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 255: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 256: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 257: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
258: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
259: without notice or justification.
260: <p>
261:
262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
263: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
264: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 265: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 266: </strong></font><br>
267: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
268: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
269: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
270: effective today, without any warning..."
271: <p>
1.257 ian 272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 274: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
275: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 276: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 277: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 278: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
279: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
280: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
281: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
282: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 283: <p>
284:
285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 286: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
287: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 288: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 289: </strong></font><br>
290: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
291: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
292: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
293: quoting two of them:
294: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
295: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
296: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
297: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
298: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
299: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
300: <p>
301:
1.255 ian 302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 303: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
304: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 305: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 306: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 307: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 308: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
309: security experts for more than three decades."
310: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
311: <p>
1.261 ian 312:
1.254 drahn 313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 314: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
315: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 316: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 317: </strong></font><br>
318: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
319: from US DARPA.
320: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
321: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
322: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
323: the BSD license.
324: <p>
325: </ul>
326:
1.251 ian 327: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
328: <ul>
329:
330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
331: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
332: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 333: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 334: </strong></font><br>
335: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
336: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
337: Mentions
338: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
339: and
340: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
341: programs.
342: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
343: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
344: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
345: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
346: <p>
1.260 ian 347:
348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
349: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
350: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
351: </strong></font><br>
352: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
353: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
354: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
355: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
356: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
357: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
358: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
359: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
360: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
361: put into service."
362: <p>
363: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
364: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
365: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
366: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
367: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
368: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
369: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
370: computers with security features."
371: <p>
1.251 ian 372: </ul>
373:
1.249 jufi 374: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
375: <ul>
376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
377: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
378: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 379: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 380: </strong></font><br>
381: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
382: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
383: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
384: <p>
385: </ul>
386:
1.246 jufi 387: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 388: <ul>
1.246 jufi 389:
1.247 jufi 390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 391: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 392: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
393: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 394: </strong></font><br>
395: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
396: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
397: <p>
398:
1.247 jufi 399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 400: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 401: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
402: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 403: </strong></font><br>
404: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
405: in their annual OpenHack security test.
406: <p>
1.247 jufi 407: </ul>
1.246 jufi 408:
1.244 jufi 409: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 410: <ul>
1.246 jufi 411:
1.247 jufi 412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 413: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
414: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
415: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 416: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 417: </strong></font><br>
418: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
419: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
420: md5 digests.
421: <p>
422:
1.247 jufi 423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 424: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 425: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
426: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 427: </strong></font><br>
428: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
429: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
430: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
431: right the first time."
432: <p>
1.247 jufi 433: </ul>
1.244 jufi 434:
435:
436: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 437: <ul>
1.244 jufi 438:
1.247 jufi 439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 440: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 441: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
442: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 443: </strong></font><br>
444: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
445: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
446: part 6</a>.
447: <p>
448:
1.247 jufi 449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 450: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 451: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
452: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 453: </strong></font><br>
454: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
455: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
456: <p>
1.247 jufi 457: </ul>
1.242 jufi 458:
459: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 460: <ul>
1.242 jufi 461:
1.247 jufi 462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 463: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 464: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
465: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 466: </strong></font><br>
467: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
468: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
469: <p>
470:
1.247 jufi 471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 472: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 473: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
474: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 475: </strong></font><br>
476: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
477: this time using pf.
478: <p>
1.247 jufi 479: </ul>
1.242 jufi 480:
481: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 482: <ul>
1.242 jufi 483:
1.247 jufi 484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 485: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 486: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
487: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 488: </strong></font><br>
489: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
490: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
491: their rotation.
492: <p>
493:
1.247 jufi 494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 495: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 496: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
497: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 498: </strong></font><br>
499: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
500: <p>
1.247 jufi 501: </ul>
1.242 jufi 502:
1.239 jufi 503: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 504: <ul>
1.239 jufi 505:
1.247 jufi 506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 507: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 508: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
509: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 510: </strong></font><br>
511: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
512: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
513: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
514: <p>
515:
1.247 jufi 516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 517: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 518: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
519: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 520: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 521: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
522: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
523: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 524: <p>
1.247 jufi 525: </ul>
1.239 jufi 526:
1.235 lebel 527: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 528: <ul>
1.235 lebel 529:
1.239 jufi 530:
1.247 jufi 531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 532: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 533: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
534: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 535: </strong></font><br>
536: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
537: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
538: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
539: <p>
1.247 jufi 540: </ul>
1.235 lebel 541:
1.228 horacio 542: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 543: <ul>
1.228 horacio 544:
1.247 jufi 545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 546: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 547: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
548: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 549: </strong></font><br>
550: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
551: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
552: <p>
553:
1.247 jufi 554: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 555: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 556: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
557: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 558: </strong></font><br>
559: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
560: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
561: <p>
562:
1.247 jufi 563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 564: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 565: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
566: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 567: </strong></font><br>
568: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
569: on the desktop of his parents.
570: <p>
571:
1.247 jufi 572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 573: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 574: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
575: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 576: </strong></font><br>
577: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
578: using IPFilter.
579:
580: <p>
581:
1.247 jufi 582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 583: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 584: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
585: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 586: </strong></font><br>
587: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
588: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
589: perspectives of the four OS.
590: <br>
591: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 592: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 593: <p>
594:
1.247 jufi 595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 596: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
597: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 598: software and security</a>,
599: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 600: </strong></font><br>
601:
602: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
603: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
604: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
605: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
606: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
607: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
608: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
609: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
610: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
611: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
612: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
613: security conscious team beyond doubt.
614: <p>
1.247 jufi 615: </ul>
1.228 horacio 616:
1.225 horacio 617: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 618: <ul>
1.225 horacio 619:
1.247 jufi 620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 621: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
622: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 623: Interview</a>,
624: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 625: </strong></font><br>
626:
627: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
628: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
629: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 630: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 631: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
632: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
633: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
634: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
635: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 636: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 637: of choice.
638: <p>
1.247 jufi 639: </ul>
1.225 horacio 640:
641: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 642: <ul>
1.225 horacio 643:
1.247 jufi 644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 645: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 646: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
647: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 648: </strong></font><br>
649:
650: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
651: <p>
652:
1.247 jufi 653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 654: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 655: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
656: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 657: </strong></font><br>
658:
659: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
660: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
661: <p>
1.247 jufi 662: </ul>
1.225 horacio 663:
1.218 horacio 664: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 665: <ul>
1.218 horacio 666:
1.247 jufi 667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 668: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 669: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
670: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 671: </strong></font><br>
672:
673: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
674: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
675: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
676: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
677: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
678: subjects. Worth a read.
679: <p>
680:
681:
1.247 jufi 682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 683: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 684: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
685: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 686: </strong></font><br>
687:
688: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
689: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
690: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
691: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
692: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
693: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
694: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
695: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
696: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 697: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 698: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
699: on other operating systems.<br>
700: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
701: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
702: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
703: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
704: <p>
705:
1.247 jufi 706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 707: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 708: Operating System 2010</a>,
709: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 710: </strong></font><br>
711:
712: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
713: covering the level of software integration into the core
714: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
715: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
716: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
717: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
718: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
719: <p>
720:
1.247 jufi 721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 722: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 723: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
724: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 725: </strong></font><br>
726:
727: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
728: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
729: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
730: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
731: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
732: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
733: <p>
1.247 jufi 734: </ul>
1.221 horacio 735:
1.210 jufi 736: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 737: <ul>
1.215 horacio 738:
1.247 jufi 739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 740: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 741: Already a Contender</a>,
742: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 743: </strong></font><br>
744:
745: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
746: source software in response to an article which claimed that
747: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
748: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
749: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
750: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
751: <p>
752:
1.247 jufi 753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 754: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 755: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
756: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 757: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 758:
1.224 horacio 759: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
760: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
761: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
762: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
763: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
764: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 765: <p>
1.247 jufi 766: </ul>
1.215 horacio 767:
768: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 769: <ul>
1.215 horacio 770:
1.247 jufi 771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 772: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
773: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 774: Division</a>,
775: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 776: </strong></font><br>
777:
778: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
779: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 780: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 781: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
782: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
783: investment</em>.<br>
784: The implementation details can be seen on their
785: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
786: <p>
787:
1.247 jufi 788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 789: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 790: Thinking about Security</a>,
791: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 792: </strong></font><br>
793:
794: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
795: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
796: security and says that even secured operating systems running
797: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
798: to time.<br>
799: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
800: system and just the most secure system.
801: <p>
802:
1.247 jufi 803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 804: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 805: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
806: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 807: </strong></font><br>
808:
809: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
810: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
811: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
812: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
813: choice:<br>
814: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
815: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
816: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
817: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
818: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
819: network security devices and as such must be well
820: armored."</em><br>
821: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
822: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
823: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
824: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
825: <br>
826: Bravo!
827: <p>
1.247 jufi 828: </ul>
1.210 jufi 829:
1.207 ian 830: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 831: <ul>
1.215 horacio 832:
1.247 jufi 833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 834: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
835: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
836: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 837:
1.207 ian 838: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
839: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 840: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 841: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
842: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
843: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 844: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 845: <p>
1.247 jufi 846: </ul>
1.207 ian 847:
1.194 jufi 848: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 849: <ul>
1.194 jufi 850:
1.247 jufi 851: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 852: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 853: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
854: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 855: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 856:
1.240 miod 857: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 858: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
859: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
860: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
861: <p>
862:
1.247 jufi 863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 864: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 865: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
866: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
867: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 868:
1.240 miod 869: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 870: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 871: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
872: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
873: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 874: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 875: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
876: <br>
877: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
878: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
879: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
880: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
881: <p>
882:
1.247 jufi 883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 884: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
885: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 886: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 887: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 888:
1.194 jufi 889: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
890: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
891: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
892: <br>
893: The new
894: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 895: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 896: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
897: <p>
1.247 jufi 898: </ul>
1.194 jufi 899:
1.190 horacio 900: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 901: <ul>
1.190 horacio 902:
1.247 jufi 903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 904:
905: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
906: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
907:
908: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
909: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
910:
911: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
912: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
913:
1.212 horacio 914: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
915: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 916: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
917:
1.211 horacio 918: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
919: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 920: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
921:
1.247 jufi 922: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 923: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
924:
1.247 jufi 925: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 926: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
927:
1.212 horacio 928: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
929: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 930: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
931:
932: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
933: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
934:
935: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
936: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
937:
938: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
939: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
940:
941: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 942: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 943:
1.192 jufi 944: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
945: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 946: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 947:
1.193 deraadt 948: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
949: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 950: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 951:
1.247 jufi 952: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 953: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
954:
1.247 jufi 955: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 956: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
957: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
958:
1.213 horacio 959: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 960: 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 961: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
962:
1.190 horacio 963: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 964: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
965: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
966: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
967: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
968: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
969: <p>
1.190 horacio 970:
1.247 jufi 971: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 972: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
973: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
974: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 975: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 976:
1.195 jufi 977: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 978: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
979: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
980: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 981: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
982: <p>
983:
1.247 jufi 984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 985: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 986: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
987: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
988: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 989:
1.191 jufi 990: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
991: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
992: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
993: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 994: <p>
1.247 jufi 995: </ul>
1.190 horacio 996:
1.191 jufi 997:
1.186 jufi 998: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 999: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1000:
1.247 jufi 1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1002: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1003: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1004: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1005: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1006:
1.188 jufi 1007: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1008: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1009: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1010: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1011: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1012: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1013: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1014: <p>
1015:
1.191 jufi 1016:
1.247 jufi 1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1018: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1019: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1020: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1021: </strong></font><br>
1022:
1023: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1024: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1025: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1026: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1027: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1028: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1029: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1030: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1031: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1032: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1033: familiar?
1034: <p>
1.247 jufi 1035: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1036:
1.178 louis 1037: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1038: <ul>
1.178 louis 1039:
1.247 jufi 1040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1041: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1042: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1043: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1044: </strong></font><br>
1045:
1046: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1047: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1048: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1049: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1050: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1051: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1052: <p>
1053:
1.247 jufi 1054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1055: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1056: Open source under the hood</a>,
1057: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1058: </strong></font><br>
1059:
1060: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1061: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1062: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1063: <p>
1064:
1.247 jufi 1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1066: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1067: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1068: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1069: </strong></font><br>
1070:
1071: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1072: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1073: <p>
1.247 jufi 1074: </ul>
1.179 louis 1075:
1.174 louis 1076:
1.175 louis 1077: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1078: <ul>
1.175 louis 1079:
1.247 jufi 1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1081: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1082: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1083: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1084: </strong></font><br>
1085:
1086: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1087: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1088: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1089: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1090: <p>
1091:
1.247 jufi 1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1093: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1094: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1095: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1096: </strong></font><br>
1097:
1098: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1099: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1100: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1101: <p>
1.247 jufi 1102: </ul>
1.175 louis 1103:
1.176 louis 1104:
1.172 mickey 1105: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1106: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1107:
1.247 jufi 1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1109: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1110: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1111: </strong></font><br>
1112:
1113: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1114: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1115: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1116: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1117: <p>
1118:
1.247 jufi 1119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1120: <a
1.269 deraadt 1121: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1122: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1123: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125:
1126: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1127: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1128: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.247 jufi 1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1132: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1133: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1134: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1135: </strong></font><br>
1136:
1137: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1138: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1139: <p>
1140:
1.247 jufi 1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1142: <a
1.269 deraadt 1143: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1144: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1145: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1146: </strong></font><br>
1147:
1148: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1149: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1150: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1151: our own Theo de Raadt.
1152: <p>
1153:
1.247 jufi 1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1155: <a
1.269 deraadt 1156: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1157: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1158: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1159: </strong></font><br>
1160:
1161: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1162: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1163: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1164: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1165: shut down.]
1166: <p>
1167:
1.247 jufi 1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1169: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1170: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1171: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1172: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1173: </strong></font><br>
1174:
1175: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1176: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1177: <p>
1.247 jufi 1178: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1179:
1.161 louis 1180: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1181: <ul>
1.161 louis 1182:
1.247 jufi 1183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1184: <a
1.269 deraadt 1185: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1186: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1187: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1188: </strong></font><br>
1189:
1190: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1191: by John Wolley
1192: <p>
1193:
1.247 jufi 1194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1195: <a
1.269 deraadt 1196: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1197: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1198: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1199: </strong></font><br>
1200:
1201: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1202: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1203: OpenBSD).
1204: <p>
1205:
1.247 jufi 1206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1207: <a
1.247 jufi 1208: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1209: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1210: </strong></font><br>
1211:
1212: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1213: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1214: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1215: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1216: and hindsight.
1217: <p>
1218:
1.247 jufi 1219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1220: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1221: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1222: </strong></font><br>
1223:
1224: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1225: <p>
1226:
1.247 jufi 1227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1228: <a
1.168 provos 1229: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1230: December 7, 2000
1231: </strong></font><br>
1232:
1233: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1234: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1235: us explain.
1236: <p>
1237:
1.247 jufi 1238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1239: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1240: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1241: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1242: December 6, 2000
1243: </strong></font><br>
1244:
1245: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1246: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1247: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1248: <p>
1249:
1.247 jufi 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1251: <a
1.226 horacio 1252: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1253: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1254: </strong></font><br>
1255:
1256: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1257: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1258: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1259: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1260: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1261: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1262: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1263: <p>
1.162 millert 1264:
1.247 jufi 1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1266: <a
1.161 louis 1267: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1268: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1269: </strong></font><br>
1270:
1271: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1272: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1273: <p>
1274:
1.247 jufi 1275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1276: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1277: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1278: </strong></font><br>
1279:
1280: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1281: <p>
1282:
1283:
1.247 jufi 1284: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1285: <a
1.226 horacio 1286: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1287: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1288: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1289: </strong></font><br>
1290:
1291: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1292: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1293: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1294: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1295: <p>
1.247 jufi 1296: </ul>
1.169 louis 1297:
1.158 louis 1298: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1299: <ul>
1.147 louis 1300:
1.247 jufi 1301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1302: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1303: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1304: </strong></font><br>
1305:
1306: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1307: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1308: <p>
1309:
1.247 jufi 1310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1311: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1312: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1313: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1314: </strong></font><br>
1315: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1316: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1317: <p>
1318:
1.247 jufi 1319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1320: <a
1321: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1322: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1323: </strong></font><br>
1324:
1325: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1326: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1327: <p>
1328:
1.247 jufi 1329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1330: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1331: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1332: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1333:
1.213 horacio 1334: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1335: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1336: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1337: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1338: <p>
1.215 horacio 1339:
1.247 jufi 1340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1341: <a
1342: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1343: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1344: </strong></font><br>
1345:
1346: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1347: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1348: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1349: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1350: much of the attitude too).
1351: <p>
1.161 louis 1352:
1.247 jufi 1353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1354: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1355: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1356: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1357:
1.157 louis 1358: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1359: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1360: <p>
1.247 jufi 1361: </ul>
1.157 louis 1362:
1363: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1364: <ul>
1.157 louis 1365:
1.247 jufi 1366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1367: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1368: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1369: </strong></font><br>
1370:
1371: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1372: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1373: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1374: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1375: <p>
1376:
1.247 jufi 1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1378: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1379: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1380: </strong></font><br>
1381:
1382: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1383: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1384: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1385: it because they love coding...
1386: <p>
1387:
1.247 jufi 1388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1389: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1390: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1391: </strong></font><br>
1392:
1393: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1394: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1395: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1396: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1397: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1398: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1399: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1400: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1401: <p>
1402:
1.247 jufi 1403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1404: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1405: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1406: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1407: </strong></font><br>
1408:
1409: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1410: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1411: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1412: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1413: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1414: the pizza.
1415: <p>
1416:
1.247 jufi 1417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1418: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1419: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1420: </strong></font><br>
1421:
1422: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1423: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1424: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1425: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1426: problems.
1427: <p>
1428:
1.247 jufi 1429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1430: <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 1431: </strong></font><br>
1432:
1.222 miod 1433: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1434: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1435: - whether they like it or not.
1436: <p>
1437:
1.247 jufi 1438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1439: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1440: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1441: </strong></font><br>
1442:
1443: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1444: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1445: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1446: <p>
1.148 aaron 1447:
1.247 jufi 1448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1449: <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 1450: </strong></font><br>
1451:
1452: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1453: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1454: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1455: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1456: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1457: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1458: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1459: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1460: <p>
1461:
1.247 jufi 1462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1463: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1464: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1465: </strong></font><br>
1466:
1467: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1468: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1469: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1470: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1471: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1472: <p>
1.247 jufi 1473: </ul>
1.147 louis 1474:
1.138 louis 1475: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1476: <ul>
1.138 louis 1477:
1.247 jufi 1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1479: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1480: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1481: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1482: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1483: </strong></font><br>
1484:
1.227 horacio 1485: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1486: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1487: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1488: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1489: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1490: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1491: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1492: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1493: <p>
1494:
1.247 jufi 1495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1496: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1497: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1498: </strong></font><br>
1499:
1500: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1501: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1502: groups, and even Linux.
1503: <p>
1504:
1.247 jufi 1505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1506: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1507: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1508: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1509: </strong></font><br>
1510:
1511: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1512: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1513: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1514: library after installing the OS.
1515: <p>
1516:
1.247 jufi 1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1518: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1519: Sys Admin, September 2000
1520: </strong></font><br>
1521:
1522: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1523: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1524: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1525: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1526: (<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>,
1527: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1528: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1529: <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 1530: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1531: out of the system.
1532: <p>
1533:
1.247 jufi 1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1535: <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
1536: </strong></font><br>
1537:
1538: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1539: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1540: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1541: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1542: the IP filtering and address translation.
1543: <p>
1.247 jufi 1544: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1545:
1.131 louis 1546: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1547: <ul>
1.131 louis 1548:
1.247 jufi 1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1550: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1551: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1552: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1553: </strong></font><br>
1554:
1555: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1556: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1557: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1558: <p>
1559:
1.247 jufi 1560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1561: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1562: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1563: </strong></font><br>
1564:
1565: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1566: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1567: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1568: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1569: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1570: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1571: note of"</i>.
1572: <p>
1573:
1.247 jufi 1574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1575: <a
1.247 jufi 1576: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1577: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1578: </strong></font><br>
1579:
1580: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1581: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1582: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1583: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1584: <p>
1585:
1.247 jufi 1586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1587: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1588: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1589: </strong></font><br>
1590:
1591: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1592: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1593: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1594: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1595: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1596: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1597: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1598: <p>
1599:
1.247 jufi 1600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1601: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1602: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1603: 2000
1604: </strong></font><br>
1605:
1606: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1607: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1608: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1609: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1610: against current industry practices.
1611: <p>
1612:
1.247 jufi 1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1614: <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
1615: </strong></font><br>
1616:
1617: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1618: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1619: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1620: <p>
1621:
1.247 jufi 1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1623: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1624: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1625: </strong></font><br>
1626:
1627: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1628: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1629: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1630: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1631: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1632: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1633: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1634: <p>
1635:
1.247 jufi 1636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1637: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1638: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1639: </strong></font><br>
1640:
1641: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1642: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1643: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1644: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1645: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1646: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1647: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1648: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1649: <p>
1.247 jufi 1650: </ul>
1.131 louis 1651:
1.118 louis 1652: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1653: <ul>
1.118 louis 1654:
1.247 jufi 1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1656: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1657: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1658: </strong></font><br>
1659:
1660: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1661: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1662: about time. The article mentions that
1663: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1664: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1665: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1666: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1667: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1668: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1669: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1670: <p>
1671:
1.247 jufi 1672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1673: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1674: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1675: </strong></font><br>
1676:
1677: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1678: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1679: of OpenSSH.
1680: <p>
1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1683: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1684: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1685: </strong></font><br>
1686:
1687: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1688: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1689: bridging.
1690: <p>
1691:
1.247 jufi 1692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1693: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1694: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1695: </strong></font><br>
1696:
1.121 deraadt 1697: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1698: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1699: <p>
1700:
1.247 jufi 1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1702: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1703: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1704: </strong></font><br>
1705:
1706: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1707: <p>
1708:
1.247 jufi 1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1710: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1711: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1712: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1713: </strong></font><br>
1714:
1.120 deraadt 1715: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1716: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1717: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1718: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1719: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1720: <p>
1721:
1.247 jufi 1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1723: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1724: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1725: </strong></font><br>
1726:
1.222 miod 1727: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1728: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1729: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1730: protocols and their quirks.
1731: <p>
1732:
1.247 jufi 1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1734: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1735: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1736: </strong></font><br>
1737:
1738: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1739: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1740: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1741: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1742: <p>
1743:
1.247 jufi 1744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1745: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1746: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1747: </strong></font><br>
1748:
1749: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1750: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1751: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1752: <p>
1753:
1.247 jufi 1754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1755: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1756: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1757: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1758: </strong></font><br>
1759:
1760: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1761: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1762: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1763: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1764: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1765: <p>
1.247 jufi 1766: </ul>
1.118 louis 1767:
1.104 louis 1768: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1769: <ul>
1.104 louis 1770:
1.247 jufi 1771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1772: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1773: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1774: </strong></font><br>
1775:
1776: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1777: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1778: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1779: be a bit dry.
1780: <p>
1781:
1.247 jufi 1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1783: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1784: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1785: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1786: </strong></font><br>
1787: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1788: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1789: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1790: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1791: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1792: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1793: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1794: <p>
1795:
1.247 jufi 1796: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1797: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1798: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1799: 2000
1.128 louis 1800: </strong></font><br>
1801:
1802: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1803: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1804: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1805: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1806: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1807: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1808: <p>
1809:
1.247 jufi 1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1811: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1812: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1813: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1814:
1815: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1816: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1817: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1818: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1819: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1820: <p>
1.110 louis 1821:
1.247 jufi 1822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1823: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1824: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1825: </strong></font><br>
1826:
1827: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1828: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1829: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1830: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1831: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1832: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1833: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1834: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1835: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1836: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1837: <p>
1838:
1.247 jufi 1839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1840: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1841: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1842:
1843: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1844: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1845: <p>
1.108 louis 1846:
1.247 jufi 1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1848: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1849: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1850: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1851:
1852: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1853: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1854: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1855: <p>
1.106 louis 1856:
1.247 jufi 1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1858: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1859: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1860: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1861:
1862: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1863: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1864: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1865: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1866: <p>
1.107 louis 1867:
1.247 jufi 1868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1869: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1870: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1871: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1872:
1873: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1874: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1875: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1876: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1877: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1878: <p>
1.105 louis 1879:
1.247 jufi 1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1881: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1882: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1883: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1884:
1.113 naddy 1885: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1886: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1887: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1888: <p>
1.104 louis 1889:
1.247 jufi 1890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1891: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1892: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1893: </strong></font><br>
1894:
1895: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1896: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1897: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1898: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1899: <p>
1.247 jufi 1900: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1901:
1.85 louis 1902: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1903: <ul>
1.85 louis 1904:
1.247 jufi 1905: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1906: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1907: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1908: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1909:
1910: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1911: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1912: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1913: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1914: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1915: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1916: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1917: <p>
1.99 louis 1918:
1.247 jufi 1919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1920: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1921: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1922: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1923:
1924: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1925: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1926: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1927: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1928: <p>
1.100 louis 1929:
1.247 jufi 1930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1931: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1932: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1933: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1934:
1935: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1936: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1937: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1938: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1939: <p>
1.95 louis 1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1942: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1943: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1944: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1945:
1946: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1947: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1948: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1949: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1950: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1951: <p>
1.92 louis 1952:
1.247 jufi 1953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1954: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1955: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1956: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1957:
1958: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1959: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1960: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1961: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1962: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1963: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1964: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1965: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1966: <p>
1.91 louis 1967:
1.247 jufi 1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1969: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1970: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1971: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1972:
1973: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1974: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1975: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1976: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1977: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1978: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1979: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1980: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1981: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1982: <p>
1.90 louis 1983:
1.247 jufi 1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1985: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1986: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1987: </strong></font><br>
1988: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1989: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1990: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1991: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1992: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1993: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1994: <p>
1995:
1.247 jufi 1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 1997: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1998: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1999: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2000:
1.113 naddy 2001: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2002: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2003: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2004: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2005: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2006: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2007: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2008: <p>
1.87 louis 2009:
1.247 jufi 2010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2011: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2012: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2013: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2014:
2015: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2016: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2017: <p>
1.85 louis 2018:
1.247 jufi 2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2020: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2021: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2022: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2023:
2024: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2025: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2026: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2027: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2028: <p>
1.89 louis 2029:
1.247 jufi 2030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2031: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2032: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2033: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2034:
2035: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2036: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2037: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2038: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2039: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2040: </ul>
1.85 louis 2041:
1.78 deraadt 2042: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2043: <ul>
1.74 louis 2044:
1.247 jufi 2045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2046: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2047: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2048: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2049: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2050:
2051: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2052: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2053: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2054: <p>
1.83 louis 2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2057: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2058: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2059: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2060:
2061: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2062: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2063: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2064: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2065: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2066: <p>
1.93 louis 2067:
1.247 jufi 2068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2069: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2070: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2071: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2072: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2073:
1.83 louis 2074: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2075: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2076: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2077: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2078: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2079: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2080: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2081: <p>
1.82 aaron 2082:
1.247 jufi 2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2084: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2085: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2086: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2087:
1.83 louis 2088: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2089: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2090: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2091: <p>
1.80 louis 2092:
1.247 jufi 2093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2094: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2095: Bad Press</a>,
2096: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2097: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2098:
2099: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2100: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2101: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2102: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2103: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2104: <p>
1.247 jufi 2105: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2106:
2107: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2108: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2109:
1.247 jufi 2110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2111: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2112: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2113: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2114: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2115:
2116: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2117: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2118: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2119: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2120: <p>
1.74 louis 2121:
1.247 jufi 2122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2123: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2124: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2125: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2126:
1.219 horacio 2127: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2128: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2129: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2130: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2131: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2132: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2133: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2134: <p>
1.88 louis 2135:
1.247 jufi 2136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2137: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2138: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2139: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2140:
2141: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2142: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2143: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2144: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2145: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2146: <p>
1.81 louis 2147:
1.247 jufi 2148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2149: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2150: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2151: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2152:
2153: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2154: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2155: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2156: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2157: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2158: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2159: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2160: <p>
1.90 louis 2161:
1.247 jufi 2162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2163: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2164: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2165: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2166:
2167: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2168: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2169: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2170: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2171: <p>
1.247 jufi 2172: </ul>
1.71 louis 2173:
1.69 deraadt 2174: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2175: <ul>
1.70 louis 2176:
1.247 jufi 2177: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2178: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2179: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2180: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2181:
2182: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2183: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2184: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2185: <p>
1.70 louis 2186:
1.247 jufi 2187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2188: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2189: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2190: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2191:
2192: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2193: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2194: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2195: <p>
1.68 louis 2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2198: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2199: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2200: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2201: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2202:
1.111 jufi 2203: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2204: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2205: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2206: "secure by default" installation.
2207: <p>
1.64 louis 2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2210: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2211: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2212: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2213:
1.113 naddy 2214: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2215: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2216: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2217: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2218: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2219: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2220: <p>
1.66 louis 2221:
1.247 jufi 2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2223: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2224: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2225: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2226:
2227: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2228: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2229: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2230: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2231: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2232: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2233: <p>
1.83 louis 2234:
1.247 jufi 2235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2236: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2237: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2238: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2239:
2240: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2241: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2242: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2243: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2244: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2245: <p>
1.64 louis 2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2248: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2249: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2250: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2251:
2252: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2253: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2254: <p>
1.247 jufi 2255: </ul>
1.65 louis 2256:
1.69 deraadt 2257: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2258: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2259:
1.247 jufi 2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2261: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2262: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2263: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2264:
2265: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2266: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2267: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2268: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2269: <p>
1.88 louis 2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2272: <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 2273: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2274:
2275: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2276: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2277: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2278: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2279: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2280: <p>
1.60 louis 2281:
1.247 jufi 2282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2283: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2284: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2285: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2286: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2287:
2288: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2289: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2290: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2291: <p>
1.58 louis 2292:
1.247 jufi 2293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2294: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2295: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2296:
2297: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2298: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2299: <p>
1.53 louis 2300:
1.247 jufi 2301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2302: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2303: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2304: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2305:
2306: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2307: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2308: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2309: <p>
1.99 louis 2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2312: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2313: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2314:
2315: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2316: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2317: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2318: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2319: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2322: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2323: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2324: </strong></font><br>
2325:
2326: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2327: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2328: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2329: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2330: <p>
2331:
1.247 jufi 2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2333: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2334: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2335: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2336:
2337: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2338: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2339: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2342: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2343: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2344:
2345: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2346: in
1.247 jufi 2347: <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 2348: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2349: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2350: <p>
1.53 louis 2351:
1.247 jufi 2352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2353: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2354: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2355: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2356: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2357:
1.58 louis 2358: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2359: <p>
1.247 jufi 2360: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2361:
1.69 deraadt 2362: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2363: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2364:
1.247 jufi 2365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2366: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2367: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2368: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2369: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2370:
1.58 louis 2371: Kurt Seifried
2372: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2373: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2374: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2375: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2376:
1.247 jufi 2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2378: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2379: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2380: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2381:
2382: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2383: <p>
1.96 louis 2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2386: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2387: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2388: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2389:
2390: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2391: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2392: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2393: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2394: <p>
1.247 jufi 2395: </ul>
1.86 louis 2396:
1.69 deraadt 2397: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2398: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2399:
1.247 jufi 2400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2401: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2402: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2403: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2404:
2405: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2406: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2407: <p>
1.61 louis 2408:
1.247 jufi 2409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2410: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2411: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2412: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2413: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2414:
2415: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2416: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2417: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2418: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2419: right -- or at least strives to".
2420: <p>
1.48 louis 2421:
1.247 jufi 2422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2423: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2424: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2425: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2426: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2427: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2428: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2429: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2430: <p>
1.61 louis 2431:
1.247 jufi 2432: <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 2433: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2434: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2435:
2436: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2437: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2438: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2439: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2440: <p>
1.46 louis 2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2443: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2444: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2445: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2446:
2447: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2448: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2449: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2450:
1.247 jufi 2451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2452: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2453: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2454: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2455:
2456: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2457: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2458: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2459: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2460: <p>
1.247 jufi 2461: </ul>
1.70 louis 2462:
1.69 deraadt 2463: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2464: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2465:
1.247 jufi 2466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2467: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2468: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2469: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2470: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2471:
2472: Kurt Seifried
2473: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2474: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2475: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2476: <p>
1.44 philen 2477:
1.247 jufi 2478: <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 2479: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2480: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2481:
2482: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2483: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2484:
1.247 jufi 2485: <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 2486: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2487: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2488:
2489: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2490: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2491:
1.247 jufi 2492: <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 2493: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2494: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2495:
2496: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2497: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2498: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2499: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2500: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: <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 2503: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2504: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2505:
1.36 louis 2506: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2507: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2508:
1.247 jufi 2509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2510: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2511: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2512: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2513:
2514: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2515: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2516: </ul>
1.38 louis 2517:
1.69 deraadt 2518: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2519: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <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 2522: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2523: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2524:
2525: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2526: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2527: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2528:
1.113 naddy 2529: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2530: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2531: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2532: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2533:
2534: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2535: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2536: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2537: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2538: <blockquote>
2539: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2540: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2541: <br>
2542: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2543: </code>
2544: </blockquote>
2545: <p>
2546:
1.247 jufi 2547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2548: <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>
2549: <p>
2550:
2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2552: <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 2553: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2554:
2555: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2556: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2557: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2558: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2559:
1.247 jufi 2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2561: <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 2562: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2563:
2564: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2565: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2566: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2567: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2568: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2569: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2570: <p>
1.19 louis 2571:
1.113 naddy 2572: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2573: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2574: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2575:
2576: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2577: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2578: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2579: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2580: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2581: <p>
1.16 louis 2582:
1.247 jufi 2583: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2584: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2585: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2586: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2587:
1.57 louis 2588: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2589: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2590: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2591: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2592:
1.247 jufi 2593: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2594: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2595: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2596: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2597:
1.113 naddy 2598: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2599:
1.247 jufi 2600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2601: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2602: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2603: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2604:
1.23 louis 2605: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2606: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2607: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2608: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2609: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2610: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2611:
1.247 jufi 2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2613: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2614: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2615: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2616:
1.199 pvalchev 2617: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2618: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2619: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2620: installation.
1.113 naddy 2621: <p>
1.47 louis 2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2624: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2625: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2626: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2627:
2628: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2629: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2630: </ul>
1.57 louis 2631:
1.69 deraadt 2632: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2633: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2634:
1.247 jufi 2635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2636: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2637: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2638: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2639:
2640: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2641: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2642: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2643: <p>
1.12 louis 2644:
1.247 jufi 2645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2646: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2647: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2648: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2649:
2650: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2651: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2652: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2653: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2654: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2655: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2656: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2657: <p>
1.247 jufi 2658: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2659:
1.69 deraadt 2660: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2661: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2664: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2665: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2666:
2667: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2668: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2669: available."
1.113 naddy 2670: <p>
1.247 jufi 2671: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2672:
1.69 deraadt 2673: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2674: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2675:
1.247 jufi 2676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2677: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2678: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2679:
2680: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2681: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2682: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2683: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2684: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2685: <p>
1.33 louis 2686:
1.247 jufi 2687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2688: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2689: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2690: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2691:
1.113 naddy 2692: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2693: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2694: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2695: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2696: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2697: <p>
1.247 jufi 2698: </ul>
1.57 louis 2699:
1.69 deraadt 2700: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2701: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2702:
1.247 jufi 2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2704: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2705: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2706: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2707:
2708: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2709: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2710: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2711:
1.247 jufi 2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2713: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2714: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2715: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2716: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2717:
2718: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2719: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2722: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2723:
1.113 naddy 2724: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2727: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2728: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2729: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2730:
2731: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2732: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2733: </ul>
1.23 louis 2734:
1.69 deraadt 2735: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2736: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2737:
1.247 jufi 2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2739: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2740: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2741:
2742: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2743: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2744: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2745:
1.247 jufi 2746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2747: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2748: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2749: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2750:
2751: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2752: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2753: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2754: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2755: </ul>
1.57 louis 2756:
1.69 deraadt 2757: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2758: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2759:
1.247 jufi 2760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2761: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2762: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2763: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2764:
2765: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2766: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2767: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2768: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2769: <p>
1.15 louis 2770:
1.247 jufi 2771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2772: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2773: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2774: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2775:
2776: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2777: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2778: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2779: columns."
1.113 naddy 2780: <p>
1.247 jufi 2781: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2782:
1.69 deraadt 2783: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2784: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2785:
1.247 jufi 2786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2787: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2788: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2789: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2790:
2791: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2792: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2793:
1.113 naddy 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2795: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2796: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2797:
2798: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2799: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2800: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2801: </ul>
1.57 louis 2802:
1.69 deraadt 2803: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2804: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2805:
1.113 naddy 2806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2807: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2808: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2809: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2810:
1.222 miod 2811: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2812: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2813: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2814: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2815: <p>
1.247 jufi 2816: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2817:
1.69 deraadt 2818: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2819: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2820:
1.247 jufi 2821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2822: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2823: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2824:
1.69 deraadt 2825: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2826: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2827: <p>
1.247 jufi 2828: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2829:
1.69 deraadt 2830: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2831: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2832:
1.247 jufi 2833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2834: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2835: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2836: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2837:
2838: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2839: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2840: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2843: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2844: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2845: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2846: <p>
1.247 jufi 2847: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2848:
1.69 deraadt 2849: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2850: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2851:
1.247 jufi 2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2853: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2854: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2855: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2856: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2857: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2858:
2859: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2860: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2861: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2862: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2863: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2864: <p>
1.247 jufi 2865: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2866:
2867: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2868: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2871: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2872: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2873:
1.69 deraadt 2874: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2875: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2876: <p>
1.112 naddy 2877:
1.247 jufi 2878: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2879: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2880:
1.113 naddy 2881: <hr>
2882: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2883: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2884:
1.200 niklas 2885: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <ul>
2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2889: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2890: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2891:
2892: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2893: <p>
2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2896:
2897: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2898:
1.247 jufi 2899: <ul>
2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2901: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2902: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2903:
2904: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2905: <p>
2906:
1.247 jufi 2907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2908: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2909: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2910:
2911: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2912: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2913: <p>
2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2916:
2917: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2918:
1.247 jufi 2919: <ul>
2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2921: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2922: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2923:
2924: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2925: <p>
2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2928:
1.102 niklas 2929: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: <ul>
2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2933: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2934: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2935:
2936: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2937: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2938: <p>
1.102 niklas 2939:
1.247 jufi 2940: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2941:
1.84 niklas 2942: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2943:
1.247 jufi 2944: <ul>
2945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2946: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2947: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2948:
2949: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2950: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2951: <p>
1.84 niklas 2952:
1.247 jufi 2953: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2954:
1.69 deraadt 2955: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2956:
1.247 jufi 2957: <ul>
2958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2959: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2960: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2961:
1.222 miod 2962: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2963: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2964: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2965: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2966:
1.247 jufi 2967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2968: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2969: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2970: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2971: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2972:
1.20 louis 2973: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2974: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2975: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2976: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2977: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2980:
1.113 naddy 2981: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2982: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2983: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 2984:
2985:
2986: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 2987: <ul>
1.202 jufi 2988:
1.247 jufi 2989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 2990: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2991: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2992:
2993: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2994: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 2995: </ul>
1.202 jufi 2996:
2997: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2998: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2999:
1.247 jufi 3000: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 3001:
3002:
1.170 louis 3003: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3004: <ul>
1.170 louis 3005:
1.247 jufi 3006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 3007: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
3008: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3009: </strong></font><br>
3010:
3011: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3012: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3013: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3014: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3015: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3016: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3017: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 3018: <p>
1.247 jufi 3019: </ul>
1.170 louis 3020:
1.69 deraadt 3021: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3022: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3023:
1.247 jufi 3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 3025: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 3026: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 3027: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 3028:
3029: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3030: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3031: translating and reprinting articles from
3032: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 3033: <p>
1.247 jufi 3034: </ul>
1.20 louis 3035:
1.113 naddy 3036: <hr>
3037: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 3038: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 3039:
1.246 jufi 3040: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3041: <ul>
3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3043: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
3044: December 04, 2002
3045: </strong></font><br>
3046: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
3047: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3048: <p>
1.247 jufi 3049: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3050:
1.151 louis 3051: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3052: <ul>
1.151 louis 3053:
1.247 jufi 3054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 3055: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3056: </strong></font><br>
3057:
3058: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3059: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3060: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3061: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3062: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3063: <p>
1.247 jufi 3064: </ul>
1.151 louis 3065:
1.72 louis 3066: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3067: <ul>
1.72 louis 3068:
1.247 jufi 3069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 3070: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 3071: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 3072: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 3073:
1.101 jufi 3074: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 3075: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3076: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 3077: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 3078: Giving way to
3079: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3080: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3081: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3082: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 3083: <p>
1.247 jufi 3084: </ul>
1.72 louis 3085:
1.69 deraadt 3086: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3087: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3088:
1.247 jufi 3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3090: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 3091: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 3092: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 3093:
3094: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3095: <p>
1.247 jufi 3096: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3097:
1.50 louis 3098:
1.113 naddy 3099: <hr>
3100: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 3101: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 3102:
1.69 deraadt 3103: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3107: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3108: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 3110:
3111: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 3112: <p>
1.247 jufi 3113: </ul>
1.62 form 3114:
1.69 deraadt 3115: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3116: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3119: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3120: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3121: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3122:
1.59 form 3123: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3124: <p>
1.112 naddy 3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3127:
1.113 naddy 3128: <hr>
3129: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3130: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3131: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3132:
1.247 jufi 3133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3134: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3135: Radio, August 2, 2000
3136: </strong></font><br>
3137:
3138: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3139: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3140: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3141: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3142: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3143: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3144: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3145: <p>
3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3148: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3149: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3150: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3151: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3152:
3153: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3154: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3155: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3156: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3157: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3158: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3159: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3160: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3161: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3162: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3163: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3164: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3165: <p>
1.247 jufi 3166: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3167:
1.113 naddy 3168: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3169: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3170: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3171:
3172: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3173: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3176: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3177: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3178: </strong></font><br>
3179:
3180: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3181: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3182: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3183: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3184: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3185: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3186: A
1.216 horacio 3187: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3188: <p>
1.247 jufi 3189: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3190:
1.252 miod 3191: <hr>
3192: <a name=fr></a>
3193: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3194:
3195: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3196: <ul>
3197:
3198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3199: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3200: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3201: </strong></font><br>
3202:
3203: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3204: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3205: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3206: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3207: <p>
3208: </ul>
3209:
1.216 horacio 3210:
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