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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>
1.283 jsyn 39: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
40: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
41: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
42: </strong></font></br>
43: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
44: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
45: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
46: <p>
47:
48: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 49: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
50: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 51: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 52: </strong></font><br>
53: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
54: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
55: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
56: american century.
57: <p>
58:
59: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 60: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
61: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 62: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 63: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 64: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
65: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
66: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
67: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
68: Can also be found online at:
69: <ul>
70: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
71: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 72: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.267 deraadt 73: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 74: <p>
75:
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 77: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
78: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 79: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 80: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 81: </strong></font><br>
82: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 83: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
84: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
85: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
86: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 87:
88: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
89: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
90: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
91: New York Times.
92: </strong></font>(free registration required)
93:
1.273 deraadt 94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
95: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 96: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 97: ABC News.
98: </strong></font>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
101: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
102: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
103: Seattle Post Intelligencer.
104: </strong></font>
105:
106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
107: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 108: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 ! jsyn 109: Lakeland Ledger.
1.273 deraadt 110: </strong></font>
111:
112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 113: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
114: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 ! jsyn 115: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 116: </strong></font>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 119: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 120: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 121: Times Daily, AL.
122: </strong></font>
123:
124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
125: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
126: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
127: Boston.com, MA.
128: </strong></font>
129:
130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
131: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 132: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 133: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
134: </strong></font>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 137: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
138: [Article was pulled]</a>
139: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 140: </strong></font>
141:
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
143: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
144: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
145: Infoshop News.
146: </strong></font>
147:
148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
149: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
150: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
151: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
152: </strong></font>
153:
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
155: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
156: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
157: NEPA News, PA.
158: </strong></font>
159:
160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
161: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
162: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
163: Wired News.
164: </strong></font>
165:
1.271 deraadt 166: </ul>
167: <p>
1.272 deraadt 168: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
169: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 170: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
171: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
172: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
173: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
174: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
175: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
176: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
177: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
178: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
179: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 180: <p>
181: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 182:
183: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
184: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
185: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
186: Miami Herald, FL.
187: </strong></font>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 190: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 191: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
192: </strong></font>
193:
194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
195: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 196: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 197: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 198: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
201: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
202: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
203: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
204: ABC News.
205: </strong></font>
206:
1.276 deraadt 207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
208: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
209: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.284 ! jsyn 210: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 211: </strong></font>
212:
1.263 deraadt 213: </ul>
1.262 beck 214: <p>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 217: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
218: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 219: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 220: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 221: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 222: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
223: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 227: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
228: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
229: OS News, April 18, 2003.
230: </strong></font><br>
231: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 235: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
236: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 237: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 238: </strong></font><br>
239: Another report on the DARPA funding.
240: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
241: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
242: <p>
243:
244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 245: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
246: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 247: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 248: </strong></font><br>
249: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
250: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
251: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
252: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
253: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
254: Goes on to say:
255: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
256: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
257: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
258: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 259: This article is also found online at:
260: <ul>
261: <li><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
262: BusinessWeek.com</a>
263: <li><a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">ZDnet</a>
264: </ul>
1.260 ian 265: <p>
1.279 deraadt 266:
1.260 ian 267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
268: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
269: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 270: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 271: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 272: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 273: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
274: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
275: without notice or justification.
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
279: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
280: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 281: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 282: </strong></font><br>
283: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
284: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
285: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
286: effective today, without any warning..."
287: <p>
1.257 ian 288:
289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 290: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
291: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 292: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 293: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 294: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
295: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
296: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
297: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
298: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 299: <p>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 302: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
303: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 304: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 305: </strong></font><br>
306: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
307: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
308: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
309: quoting two of them:
310: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
311: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
312: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
313: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
314: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
315: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
316: <p>
317:
1.255 ian 318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 319: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
320: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 321: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 322: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 323: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 324: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
325: security experts for more than three decades."
326: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
327: <p>
1.261 ian 328:
1.254 drahn 329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 330: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
331: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 332: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 333: </strong></font><br>
334: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
335: from US DARPA.
336: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
337: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
338: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
339: the BSD license.
340: <p>
341: </ul>
342:
1.251 ian 343: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
344: <ul>
345:
346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
347: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
348: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 349: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 350: </strong></font><br>
351: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
352: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
353: Mentions
354: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
355: and
356: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
357: programs.
358: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
359: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
360: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
361: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
362: <p>
1.260 ian 363:
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
365: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
366: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
367: </strong></font><br>
368: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
369: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
370: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
371: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
372: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
373: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
374: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
375: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
376: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
377: put into service."
378: <p>
379: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
380: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
381: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
382: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
383: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
384: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
385: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
386: computers with security features."
387: <p>
1.251 ian 388: </ul>
389:
1.249 jufi 390: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
391: <ul>
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
393: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
394: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 395: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 396: </strong></font><br>
397: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
398: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
399: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
400: <p>
401: </ul>
402:
1.246 jufi 403: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 404: <ul>
1.246 jufi 405:
1.247 jufi 406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 407: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 408: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
409: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 410: </strong></font><br>
411: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
412: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
413: <p>
414:
1.247 jufi 415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 416: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 417: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
418: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 419: </strong></font><br>
420: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
421: in their annual OpenHack security test.
422: <p>
1.247 jufi 423: </ul>
1.246 jufi 424:
1.244 jufi 425: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 426: <ul>
1.246 jufi 427:
1.247 jufi 428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 429: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
430: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
431: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 432: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 433: </strong></font><br>
434: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
435: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
436: md5 digests.
437: <p>
438:
1.247 jufi 439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 440: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 441: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
442: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 443: </strong></font><br>
444: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
445: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
446: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
447: right the first time."
448: <p>
1.247 jufi 449: </ul>
1.244 jufi 450:
451:
452: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 453: <ul>
1.244 jufi 454:
1.247 jufi 455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 456: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 457: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
458: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 459: </strong></font><br>
460: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
461: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
462: part 6</a>.
463: <p>
464:
1.247 jufi 465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 466: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 467: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
468: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 469: </strong></font><br>
470: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
471: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
472: <p>
1.247 jufi 473: </ul>
1.242 jufi 474:
475: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 476: <ul>
1.242 jufi 477:
1.247 jufi 478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 479: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 480: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
481: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 482: </strong></font><br>
483: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
484: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
485: <p>
486:
1.247 jufi 487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 488: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 489: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
490: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 491: </strong></font><br>
492: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
493: this time using pf.
494: <p>
1.247 jufi 495: </ul>
1.242 jufi 496:
497: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 498: <ul>
1.242 jufi 499:
1.247 jufi 500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 501: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 502: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
503: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 504: </strong></font><br>
505: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
506: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
507: their rotation.
508: <p>
509:
1.247 jufi 510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 511: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 512: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
513: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 514: </strong></font><br>
515: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
516: <p>
1.247 jufi 517: </ul>
1.242 jufi 518:
1.239 jufi 519: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 520: <ul>
1.239 jufi 521:
1.247 jufi 522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 523: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 524: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
525: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 526: </strong></font><br>
527: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
528: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
529: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
530: <p>
531:
1.247 jufi 532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 533: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 534: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
535: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 536: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 537: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
538: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
539: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 540: <p>
1.247 jufi 541: </ul>
1.239 jufi 542:
1.235 lebel 543: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 544: <ul>
1.235 lebel 545:
1.239 jufi 546:
1.247 jufi 547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 548: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 549: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
550: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 551: </strong></font><br>
552: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
553: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
554: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
555: <p>
1.247 jufi 556: </ul>
1.235 lebel 557:
1.228 horacio 558: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 559: <ul>
1.228 horacio 560:
1.247 jufi 561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 562: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 563: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
564: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 565: </strong></font><br>
566: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
567: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
568: <p>
569:
1.247 jufi 570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 571: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 572: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
573: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 574: </strong></font><br>
575: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
576: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
577: <p>
578:
1.247 jufi 579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 580: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 581: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
582: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 583: </strong></font><br>
584: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
585: on the desktop of his parents.
586: <p>
587:
1.247 jufi 588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 589: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 590: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
591: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 592: </strong></font><br>
593: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
594: using IPFilter.
595:
596: <p>
597:
1.247 jufi 598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 599: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 600: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
601: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 602: </strong></font><br>
603: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
604: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
605: perspectives of the four OS.
606: <br>
607: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 608: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 609: <p>
610:
1.247 jufi 611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 612: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
613: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 614: software and security</a>,
615: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 616: </strong></font><br>
617:
618: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
619: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
620: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
621: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
622: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
623: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
624: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
625: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
626: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
627: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
628: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
629: security conscious team beyond doubt.
630: <p>
1.247 jufi 631: </ul>
1.228 horacio 632:
1.225 horacio 633: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 634: <ul>
1.225 horacio 635:
1.247 jufi 636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 637: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
638: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 639: Interview</a>,
640: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 641: </strong></font><br>
642:
643: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
644: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
645: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 646: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 647: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
648: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
649: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
650: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
651: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 652: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 653: of choice.
654: <p>
1.247 jufi 655: </ul>
1.225 horacio 656:
657: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 658: <ul>
1.225 horacio 659:
1.247 jufi 660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 661: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 662: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
663: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 664: </strong></font><br>
665:
666: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
667: <p>
668:
1.247 jufi 669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 670: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 671: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
672: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 673: </strong></font><br>
674:
675: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
676: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
677: <p>
1.247 jufi 678: </ul>
1.225 horacio 679:
1.218 horacio 680: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 681: <ul>
1.218 horacio 682:
1.247 jufi 683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 684: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 685: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
686: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 687: </strong></font><br>
688:
689: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
690: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
691: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
692: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
693: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
694: subjects. Worth a read.
695: <p>
696:
697:
1.247 jufi 698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 699: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 700: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
701: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 702: </strong></font><br>
703:
704: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
705: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
706: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
707: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
708: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
709: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
710: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
711: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
712: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 713: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 714: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
715: on other operating systems.<br>
716: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
717: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
718: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
719: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
720: <p>
721:
1.247 jufi 722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 723: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 724: Operating System 2010</a>,
725: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 726: </strong></font><br>
727:
728: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
729: covering the level of software integration into the core
730: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
731: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
732: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
733: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
734: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
735: <p>
736:
1.247 jufi 737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 738: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 739: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
740: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 741: </strong></font><br>
742:
743: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
744: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
745: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
746: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
747: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
748: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
749: <p>
1.247 jufi 750: </ul>
1.221 horacio 751:
1.210 jufi 752: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 753: <ul>
1.215 horacio 754:
1.247 jufi 755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 756: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 757: Already a Contender</a>,
758: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 759: </strong></font><br>
760:
761: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
762: source software in response to an article which claimed that
763: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
764: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
765: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
766: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
767: <p>
768:
1.247 jufi 769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 770: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 771: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
772: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 773: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 774:
1.224 horacio 775: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
776: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
777: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
778: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
779: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
780: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 781: <p>
1.247 jufi 782: </ul>
1.215 horacio 783:
784: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 785: <ul>
1.215 horacio 786:
1.247 jufi 787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 788: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
789: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 790: Division</a>,
791: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 792: </strong></font><br>
793:
794: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
795: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 796: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 797: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
798: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
799: investment</em>.<br>
800: The implementation details can be seen on their
801: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
802: <p>
803:
1.247 jufi 804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 805: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 806: Thinking about Security</a>,
807: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 808: </strong></font><br>
809:
810: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
811: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
812: security and says that even secured operating systems running
813: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
814: to time.<br>
815: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
816: system and just the most secure system.
817: <p>
818:
1.247 jufi 819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 820: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 821: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
822: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 823: </strong></font><br>
824:
825: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
826: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
827: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
828: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
829: choice:<br>
830: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
831: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
832: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
833: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
834: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
835: network security devices and as such must be well
836: armored."</em><br>
837: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
838: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
839: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
840: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
841: <br>
842: Bravo!
843: <p>
1.247 jufi 844: </ul>
1.210 jufi 845:
1.207 ian 846: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 847: <ul>
1.215 horacio 848:
1.247 jufi 849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 850: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
851: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
852: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 853:
1.207 ian 854: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
855: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 856: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 857: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
858: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
859: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 860: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 861: <p>
1.247 jufi 862: </ul>
1.207 ian 863:
1.194 jufi 864: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 865: <ul>
1.194 jufi 866:
1.247 jufi 867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 868: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 869: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
870: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 871: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 872:
1.240 miod 873: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 874: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
875: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
876: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
877: <p>
878:
1.247 jufi 879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 880: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 881: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
882: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
883: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 884:
1.240 miod 885: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 886: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 887: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
888: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
889: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 890: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 891: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
892: <br>
893: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
894: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
895: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
896: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
897: <p>
898:
1.247 jufi 899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 900: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
901: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 902: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 903: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 904:
1.194 jufi 905: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
906: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
907: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
908: <br>
909: The new
910: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 911: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 912: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
913: <p>
1.247 jufi 914: </ul>
1.194 jufi 915:
1.190 horacio 916: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 917: <ul>
1.190 horacio 918:
1.247 jufi 919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 920:
921: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
922: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
923:
924: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
925: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
926:
927: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
928: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
929:
1.212 horacio 930: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
931: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 932: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
933:
1.211 horacio 934: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
935: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 936: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
937:
1.247 jufi 938: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 939: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
940:
1.247 jufi 941: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 942: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
943:
1.212 horacio 944: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
945: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 946: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
947:
948: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
949: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
950:
951: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
952: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
953:
954: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
955: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
956:
957: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 958: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 959:
1.192 jufi 960: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
961: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 962: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 963:
1.193 deraadt 964: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
965: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 966: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 967:
1.247 jufi 968: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 969: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
970:
1.247 jufi 971: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 972: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
973: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
974:
1.213 horacio 975: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 976: 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 977: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
978:
1.190 horacio 979: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 980: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
981: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
982: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
983: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
984: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
985: <p>
1.190 horacio 986:
1.247 jufi 987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 988: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
989: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
990: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 991: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 992:
1.195 jufi 993: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 994: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
995: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
996: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 997: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
998: <p>
999:
1.247 jufi 1000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1001: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1002: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1003: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1004: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1005:
1.191 jufi 1006: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1007: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
1008: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
1009: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 1010: <p>
1.247 jufi 1011: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1012:
1.191 jufi 1013:
1.186 jufi 1014: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1015: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1016:
1.247 jufi 1017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1018: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1019: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1020: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1021: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1022:
1.188 jufi 1023: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1024: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1025: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1026: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1027: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1028: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1029: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1030: <p>
1031:
1.191 jufi 1032:
1.247 jufi 1033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1034: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1035: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1036: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1037: </strong></font><br>
1038:
1039: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1040: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1041: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1042: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1043: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1044: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1045: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1046: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1047: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1048: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1049: familiar?
1050: <p>
1.247 jufi 1051: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1052:
1.178 louis 1053: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1054: <ul>
1.178 louis 1055:
1.247 jufi 1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1057: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1058: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1059: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061:
1062: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1063: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1064: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1065: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1066: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1067: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1068: <p>
1069:
1.247 jufi 1070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1071: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1072: Open source under the hood</a>,
1073: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1074: </strong></font><br>
1075:
1076: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1077: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1078: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.247 jufi 1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1082: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1083: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1084: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1085: </strong></font><br>
1086:
1087: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1088: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1089: <p>
1.247 jufi 1090: </ul>
1.179 louis 1091:
1.174 louis 1092:
1.175 louis 1093: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1094: <ul>
1.175 louis 1095:
1.247 jufi 1096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1097: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1098: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1099: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1100: </strong></font><br>
1101:
1102: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1103: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1104: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1105: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1106: <p>
1107:
1.247 jufi 1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1109: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1110: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1111: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1112: </strong></font><br>
1113:
1114: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1115: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1116: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1117: <p>
1.247 jufi 1118: </ul>
1.175 louis 1119:
1.176 louis 1120:
1.172 mickey 1121: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1122: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1123:
1.247 jufi 1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1125: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1126: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1127: </strong></font><br>
1128:
1129: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1130: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1131: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1132: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1133: <p>
1134:
1.247 jufi 1135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1136: <a
1.269 deraadt 1137: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1138: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1139: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1140: </strong></font><br>
1141:
1142: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1143: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1144: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1145: <p>
1146:
1.247 jufi 1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1148: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1149: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1150: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1151: </strong></font><br>
1152:
1153: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1154: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1155: <p>
1156:
1.247 jufi 1157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1158: <a
1.269 deraadt 1159: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1160: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1161: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1162: </strong></font><br>
1163:
1164: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1165: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1166: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1167: our own Theo de Raadt.
1168: <p>
1169:
1.247 jufi 1170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1171: <a
1.269 deraadt 1172: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1173: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1174: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1175: </strong></font><br>
1176:
1177: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1178: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1179: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1180: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1181: shut down.]
1182: <p>
1183:
1.247 jufi 1184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1185: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1186: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1187: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1188: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1189: </strong></font><br>
1190:
1191: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1192: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1193: <p>
1.247 jufi 1194: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1195:
1.161 louis 1196: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1197: <ul>
1.161 louis 1198:
1.247 jufi 1199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1200: <a
1.269 deraadt 1201: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1202: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1203: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1204: </strong></font><br>
1205:
1206: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1207: by John Wolley
1208: <p>
1209:
1.247 jufi 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1211: <a
1.269 deraadt 1212: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1213: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1214: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1215: </strong></font><br>
1216:
1217: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1218: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1219: OpenBSD).
1220: <p>
1221:
1.247 jufi 1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1223: <a
1.247 jufi 1224: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1225: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1226: </strong></font><br>
1227:
1228: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1229: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1230: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1231: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1232: and hindsight.
1233: <p>
1234:
1.247 jufi 1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1236: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1237: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1238: </strong></font><br>
1239:
1240: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.247 jufi 1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1244: <a
1.168 provos 1245: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1246: December 7, 2000
1247: </strong></font><br>
1248:
1249: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1250: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1251: us explain.
1252: <p>
1253:
1.247 jufi 1254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1255: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1256: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1257: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1258: December 6, 2000
1259: </strong></font><br>
1260:
1261: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1262: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1263: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1264: <p>
1265:
1.247 jufi 1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1267: <a
1.226 horacio 1268: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1269: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1270: </strong></font><br>
1271:
1272: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1273: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1274: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1275: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1276: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1277: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1278: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1279: <p>
1.162 millert 1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1282: <a
1.161 louis 1283: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1284: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1285: </strong></font><br>
1286:
1287: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1288: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1289: <p>
1290:
1.247 jufi 1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1292: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1293: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1294: </strong></font><br>
1295:
1296: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1297: <p>
1298:
1299:
1.247 jufi 1300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1301: <a
1.226 horacio 1302: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1303: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1304: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1305: </strong></font><br>
1306:
1307: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1308: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1309: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1310: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1311: <p>
1.247 jufi 1312: </ul>
1.169 louis 1313:
1.158 louis 1314: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1315: <ul>
1.147 louis 1316:
1.247 jufi 1317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1318: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1319: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1320: </strong></font><br>
1321:
1322: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1323: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1324: <p>
1325:
1.247 jufi 1326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1327: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1328: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1329: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1330: </strong></font><br>
1331: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1332: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1333: <p>
1334:
1.247 jufi 1335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1336: <a
1337: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1338: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1339: </strong></font><br>
1340:
1341: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1342: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1343: <p>
1344:
1.247 jufi 1345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1346: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1347: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1348: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1349:
1.213 horacio 1350: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1351: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1352: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1353: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1354: <p>
1.215 horacio 1355:
1.247 jufi 1356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1357: <a
1358: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1359: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1360: </strong></font><br>
1361:
1362: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1363: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1364: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1365: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1366: much of the attitude too).
1367: <p>
1.161 louis 1368:
1.247 jufi 1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1370: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1371: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1372: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1373:
1.157 louis 1374: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1375: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1376: <p>
1.247 jufi 1377: </ul>
1.157 louis 1378:
1379: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1380: <ul>
1.157 louis 1381:
1.247 jufi 1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1383: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1384: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1385: </strong></font><br>
1386:
1387: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1388: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1389: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1390: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1391: <p>
1392:
1.247 jufi 1393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1394: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1395: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1396: </strong></font><br>
1397:
1398: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1399: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1400: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1401: it because they love coding...
1402: <p>
1403:
1.247 jufi 1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1405: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1406: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1407: </strong></font><br>
1408:
1409: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1410: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1411: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1412: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1413: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1414: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1415: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1416: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1417: <p>
1418:
1.247 jufi 1419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1420: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1421: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1422: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1423: </strong></font><br>
1424:
1425: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1426: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1427: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1428: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1429: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1430: the pizza.
1431: <p>
1432:
1.247 jufi 1433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1434: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1435: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1436: </strong></font><br>
1437:
1438: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1439: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1440: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1441: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1442: problems.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1446: <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 1447: </strong></font><br>
1448:
1.222 miod 1449: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1450: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1451: - whether they like it or not.
1452: <p>
1453:
1.247 jufi 1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1455: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1456: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1457: </strong></font><br>
1458:
1459: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1460: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1461: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1462: <p>
1.148 aaron 1463:
1.247 jufi 1464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1465: <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 1466: </strong></font><br>
1467:
1468: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1469: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1470: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1471: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1472: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1473: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1474: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1475: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1476: <p>
1477:
1.247 jufi 1478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1479: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1480: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1481: </strong></font><br>
1482:
1483: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1484: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1485: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1486: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1487: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1488: <p>
1.247 jufi 1489: </ul>
1.147 louis 1490:
1.138 louis 1491: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1492: <ul>
1.138 louis 1493:
1.247 jufi 1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1495: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1496: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1497: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1498: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1499: </strong></font><br>
1500:
1.227 horacio 1501: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1502: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1503: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1504: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1505: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1506: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1507: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1508: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1509: <p>
1510:
1.247 jufi 1511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1512: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1513: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1514: </strong></font><br>
1515:
1516: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1517: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1518: groups, and even Linux.
1519: <p>
1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1522: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1523: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1524: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1525: </strong></font><br>
1526:
1527: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1528: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1529: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1530: library after installing the OS.
1531: <p>
1532:
1.247 jufi 1533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1534: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1535: Sys Admin, September 2000
1536: </strong></font><br>
1537:
1538: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1539: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1540: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1541: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1542: (<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>,
1543: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1544: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1545: <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 1546: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1547: out of the system.
1548: <p>
1549:
1.247 jufi 1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1551: <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
1552: </strong></font><br>
1553:
1554: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1555: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1556: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1557: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1558: the IP filtering and address translation.
1559: <p>
1.247 jufi 1560: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1561:
1.131 louis 1562: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1563: <ul>
1.131 louis 1564:
1.247 jufi 1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1566: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1567: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1568: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1569: </strong></font><br>
1570:
1571: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1572: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1573: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1574: <p>
1575:
1.247 jufi 1576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1577: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1578: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1579: </strong></font><br>
1580:
1581: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1582: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1583: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1584: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1585: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1586: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1587: note of"</i>.
1588: <p>
1589:
1.247 jufi 1590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1591: <a
1.247 jufi 1592: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1593: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1594: </strong></font><br>
1595:
1596: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1597: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1598: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1599: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1600: <p>
1601:
1.247 jufi 1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1603: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1604: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1605: </strong></font><br>
1606:
1607: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1608: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1609: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1610: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1611: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1612: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1613: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1614: <p>
1615:
1.247 jufi 1616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1617: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1618: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1619: 2000
1620: </strong></font><br>
1621:
1622: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1623: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1624: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1625: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1626: against current industry practices.
1627: <p>
1628:
1.247 jufi 1629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1630: <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
1631: </strong></font><br>
1632:
1633: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1634: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1635: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1636: <p>
1637:
1.247 jufi 1638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1639: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1640: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1641: </strong></font><br>
1642:
1643: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1644: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1645: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1646: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1647: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1648: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1649: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1650: <p>
1651:
1.247 jufi 1652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1653: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1654: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1655: </strong></font><br>
1656:
1657: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1658: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1659: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1660: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1661: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1662: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1663: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1664: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1665: <p>
1.247 jufi 1666: </ul>
1.131 louis 1667:
1.118 louis 1668: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1669: <ul>
1.118 louis 1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1672: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1673: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1674: </strong></font><br>
1675:
1676: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1677: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1678: about time. The article mentions that
1679: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1680: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1681: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1682: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1683: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1684: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1685: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1686: <p>
1687:
1.247 jufi 1688: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1689: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1690: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1691: </strong></font><br>
1692:
1693: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1694: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1695: of OpenSSH.
1696: <p>
1697:
1.247 jufi 1698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1699: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1700: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1701: </strong></font><br>
1702:
1703: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1704: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1705: bridging.
1706: <p>
1707:
1.247 jufi 1708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1709: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1710: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1711: </strong></font><br>
1712:
1.121 deraadt 1713: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1714: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1715: <p>
1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1718: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1719: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1720: </strong></font><br>
1721:
1722: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1723: <p>
1724:
1.247 jufi 1725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1726: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1727: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1728: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1729: </strong></font><br>
1730:
1.120 deraadt 1731: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1732: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1733: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1734: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1735: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1736: <p>
1737:
1.247 jufi 1738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1739: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1740: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1741: </strong></font><br>
1742:
1.222 miod 1743: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1744: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1745: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1746: protocols and their quirks.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1750: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1751: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1752: </strong></font><br>
1753:
1754: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1755: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1756: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1757: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1758: <p>
1759:
1.247 jufi 1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1761: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1762: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1763: </strong></font><br>
1764:
1765: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1766: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1767: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1768: <p>
1769:
1.247 jufi 1770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1771: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1772: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1773: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1774: </strong></font><br>
1775:
1776: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1777: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1778: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1779: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1780: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1781: <p>
1.247 jufi 1782: </ul>
1.118 louis 1783:
1.104 louis 1784: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1785: <ul>
1.104 louis 1786:
1.247 jufi 1787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1788: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1789: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1790: </strong></font><br>
1791:
1792: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1793: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1794: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1795: be a bit dry.
1796: <p>
1797:
1.247 jufi 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1799: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1800: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1801: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1802: </strong></font><br>
1803: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1804: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1805: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1806: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1807: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1808: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1809: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1810: <p>
1811:
1.247 jufi 1812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1813: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1814: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1815: 2000
1.128 louis 1816: </strong></font><br>
1817:
1818: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1819: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1820: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1821: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1822: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1823: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1824: <p>
1825:
1.247 jufi 1826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1827: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1828: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1829: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1830:
1831: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1832: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1833: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1834: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1835: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1836: <p>
1.110 louis 1837:
1.247 jufi 1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1839: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1840: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1841: </strong></font><br>
1842:
1843: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1844: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1845: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1846: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1847: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1848: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1849: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1850: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1851: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1852: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1853: <p>
1854:
1.247 jufi 1855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1856: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1857: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1858:
1859: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1860: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1861: <p>
1.108 louis 1862:
1.247 jufi 1863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1864: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1865: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1866: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1867:
1868: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1869: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1870: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1871: <p>
1.106 louis 1872:
1.247 jufi 1873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1874: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1875: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1876: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1877:
1878: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1879: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1880: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1881: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1882: <p>
1.107 louis 1883:
1.247 jufi 1884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1885: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1886: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1887: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1888:
1889: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1890: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1891: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1892: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1893: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1894: <p>
1.105 louis 1895:
1.247 jufi 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1897: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1898: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1899: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1900:
1.113 naddy 1901: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1902: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1903: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1904: <p>
1.104 louis 1905:
1.247 jufi 1906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1907: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1908: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1909: </strong></font><br>
1910:
1911: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1912: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1913: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1914: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1915: <p>
1.247 jufi 1916: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1917:
1.85 louis 1918: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1919: <ul>
1.85 louis 1920:
1.247 jufi 1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1922: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1923: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1924: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1925:
1926: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1927: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1928: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1929: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1930: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1931: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1932: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1933: <p>
1.99 louis 1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1936: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1937: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1938: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1939:
1940: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1941: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1942: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1943: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1944: <p>
1.100 louis 1945:
1.247 jufi 1946: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1947: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1948: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1949: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1950:
1951: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1952: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1953: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1954: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1955: <p>
1.95 louis 1956:
1.247 jufi 1957: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1958: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1959: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1960: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1961:
1962: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1963: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1964: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1965: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1966: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1967: <p>
1.92 louis 1968:
1.247 jufi 1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1970: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1971: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1972: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1973:
1974: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1975: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1976: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1977: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1978: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1979: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1980: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1981: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1982: <p>
1.91 louis 1983:
1.247 jufi 1984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1985: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1986: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1987: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1988:
1989: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1990: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1991: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1992: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1993: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1994: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1995: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1996: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1997: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1998: <p>
1.90 louis 1999:
1.247 jufi 2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2001: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2002: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2003: </strong></font><br>
2004: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2005: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2006: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2007: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2008: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2009: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2010: <p>
2011:
1.247 jufi 2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2013: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2014: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2015: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2016:
1.113 naddy 2017: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2018: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2019: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2020: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2021: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2022: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2023: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2024: <p>
1.87 louis 2025:
1.247 jufi 2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2027: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2028: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2029: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2030:
2031: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2032: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2033: <p>
1.85 louis 2034:
1.247 jufi 2035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2036: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2037: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2038: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2039:
2040: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2041: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2042: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2043: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2044: <p>
1.89 louis 2045:
1.247 jufi 2046: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2047: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2048: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2049: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2050:
2051: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2052: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2053: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2054: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2055: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2056: </ul>
1.85 louis 2057:
1.78 deraadt 2058: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2059: <ul>
1.74 louis 2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2062: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2063: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2064: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2065: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2066:
2067: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2068: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2069: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2070: <p>
1.83 louis 2071:
1.247 jufi 2072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2073: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2074: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2075: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2076:
2077: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2078: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2079: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2080: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2081: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2082: <p>
1.93 louis 2083:
1.247 jufi 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2085: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2086: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2087: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2088: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2089:
1.83 louis 2090: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2091: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2092: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2093: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2094: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2095: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2096: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2097: <p>
1.82 aaron 2098:
1.247 jufi 2099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2100: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2101: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2102: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2103:
1.83 louis 2104: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2105: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2106: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2107: <p>
1.80 louis 2108:
1.247 jufi 2109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2110: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2111: Bad Press</a>,
2112: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2113: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2114:
2115: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2116: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2117: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2118: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2119: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2120: <p>
1.247 jufi 2121: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2122:
2123: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2124: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2125:
1.247 jufi 2126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2127: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2128: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2129: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2130: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2131:
2132: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2133: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2134: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2135: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2136: <p>
1.74 louis 2137:
1.247 jufi 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2139: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2140: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2141: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2142:
1.219 horacio 2143: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2144: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2145: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2146: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2147: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2148: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2149: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2150: <p>
1.88 louis 2151:
1.247 jufi 2152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2153: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2154: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2155: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2156:
2157: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2158: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2159: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2160: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2161: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2162: <p>
1.81 louis 2163:
1.247 jufi 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2165: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2166: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2167: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2168:
2169: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2170: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2171: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2172: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2173: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2174: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2175: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2176: <p>
1.90 louis 2177:
1.247 jufi 2178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2179: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2180: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2181: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2182:
2183: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2184: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2185: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2186: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2187: <p>
1.247 jufi 2188: </ul>
1.71 louis 2189:
1.69 deraadt 2190: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2191: <ul>
1.70 louis 2192:
1.247 jufi 2193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2194: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2195: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2196: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2197:
2198: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2199: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2200: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2201: <p>
1.70 louis 2202:
1.247 jufi 2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2204: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2205: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2206: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2207:
2208: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2209: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2210: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2211: <p>
1.68 louis 2212:
1.247 jufi 2213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2214: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2215: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2216: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2217: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2218:
1.111 jufi 2219: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2220: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2221: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2222: "secure by default" installation.
2223: <p>
1.64 louis 2224:
1.247 jufi 2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2226: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2227: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2228: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2229:
1.113 naddy 2230: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2231: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2232: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2233: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2234: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2235: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2236: <p>
1.66 louis 2237:
1.247 jufi 2238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2239: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2240: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2241: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2242:
2243: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2244: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2245: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2246: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2247: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2248: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2249: <p>
1.83 louis 2250:
1.247 jufi 2251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2252: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2253: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2254: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2255:
2256: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2257: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2258: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2259: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2260: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2261: <p>
1.64 louis 2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2264: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2265: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2266: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2267:
2268: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2269: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2270: <p>
1.247 jufi 2271: </ul>
1.65 louis 2272:
1.69 deraadt 2273: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2274: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2277: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2278: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2279: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2280:
2281: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2282: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2283: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2284: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2285: <p>
1.88 louis 2286:
1.247 jufi 2287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2288: <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 2289: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2290:
2291: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2292: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2293: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2294: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2295: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2296: <p>
1.60 louis 2297:
1.247 jufi 2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2299: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2300: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2301: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2302: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2303:
2304: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2305: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2306: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2307: <p>
1.58 louis 2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2310: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2311: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2312:
2313: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2314: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2315: <p>
1.53 louis 2316:
1.247 jufi 2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2318: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2319: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2320: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2321:
2322: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2323: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2324: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2325: <p>
1.99 louis 2326:
1.247 jufi 2327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2328: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2329: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2330:
2331: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2332: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2333: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2334: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2335: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2336:
1.247 jufi 2337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2338: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2339: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2340: </strong></font><br>
2341:
2342: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2343: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2344: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2345: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2346: <p>
2347:
1.247 jufi 2348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2349: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2350: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2351: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2352:
2353: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2354: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2355: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2356:
1.247 jufi 2357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2358: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2359: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2360:
2361: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2362: in
1.247 jufi 2363: <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 2364: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2365: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2366: <p>
1.53 louis 2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2369: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2370: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2371: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2372: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2373:
1.58 louis 2374: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2375: <p>
1.247 jufi 2376: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2377:
1.69 deraadt 2378: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2379: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2380:
1.247 jufi 2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2382: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2383: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2384: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2385: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2386:
1.58 louis 2387: Kurt Seifried
2388: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2389: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2390: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2391: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2394: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2395: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2396: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2397:
2398: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2399: <p>
1.96 louis 2400:
1.247 jufi 2401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2402: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2403: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2404: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2405:
2406: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2407: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2408: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2409: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2410: <p>
1.247 jufi 2411: </ul>
1.86 louis 2412:
1.69 deraadt 2413: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2414: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2415:
1.247 jufi 2416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2417: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2418: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2419: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2420:
2421: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2422: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2423: <p>
1.61 louis 2424:
1.247 jufi 2425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2426: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2427: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2428: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2429: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2430:
2431: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2432: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2433: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2434: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2435: right -- or at least strives to".
2436: <p>
1.48 louis 2437:
1.247 jufi 2438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2439: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2440: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2441: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2442: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2443: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2444: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2445: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2446: <p>
1.61 louis 2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <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 2449: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2451:
2452: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2453: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2454: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2455: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2456: <p>
1.46 louis 2457:
1.247 jufi 2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2459: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2460: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2461: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2462:
2463: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2464: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2465: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2466:
1.247 jufi 2467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2468: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2469: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2470: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2471:
2472: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2473: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2474: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2475: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2476: <p>
1.247 jufi 2477: </ul>
1.70 louis 2478:
1.69 deraadt 2479: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2480: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2481:
1.247 jufi 2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2483: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2484: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2485: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2486: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2487:
2488: Kurt Seifried
2489: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2490: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2491: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2492: <p>
1.44 philen 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <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 2495: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2496: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2497:
2498: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2499: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2500:
1.247 jufi 2501: <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 2502: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2503: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2504:
2505: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2506: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2507:
1.247 jufi 2508: <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 2509: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2510: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2511:
2512: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2513: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2514: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2515: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2516: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2517:
1.247 jufi 2518: <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 2519: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2520: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2521:
1.36 louis 2522: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2523: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2524:
1.247 jufi 2525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2526: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2527: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2528: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2529:
2530: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2531: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2532: </ul>
1.38 louis 2533:
1.69 deraadt 2534: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2535: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2536:
1.247 jufi 2537: <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 2538: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2539: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2540:
2541: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2542: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2543: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2544:
1.113 naddy 2545: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2546: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2547: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2548: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2549:
2550: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2551: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2552: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2553: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2554: <blockquote>
2555: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2556: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2557: <br>
2558: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2559: </code>
2560: </blockquote>
2561: <p>
2562:
1.247 jufi 2563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2564: <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>
2565: <p>
2566:
2567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2568: <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 2569: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2570:
2571: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2572: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2573: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2574: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2577: <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 2578: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2579:
2580: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2581: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2582: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2583: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2584: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2585: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2586: <p>
1.19 louis 2587:
1.113 naddy 2588: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2589: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2590: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2591:
2592: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2593: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2594: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2595: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2596: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2597: <p>
1.16 louis 2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2600: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2601: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2602: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2603:
1.57 louis 2604: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2605: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2606: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2607: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2608:
1.247 jufi 2609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2610: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2611: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2612: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2613:
1.113 naddy 2614: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2615:
1.247 jufi 2616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2617: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2618: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2619: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2620:
1.23 louis 2621: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2622: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2623: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2624: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2625: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2626: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2627:
1.247 jufi 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2629: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2630: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2631: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2632:
1.199 pvalchev 2633: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2634: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2635: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2636: installation.
1.113 naddy 2637: <p>
1.47 louis 2638:
1.247 jufi 2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2640: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2641: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2642: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2643:
2644: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2645: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2646: </ul>
1.57 louis 2647:
1.69 deraadt 2648: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2649: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2652: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2653: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2654: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2655:
2656: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2657: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2658: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2659: <p>
1.12 louis 2660:
1.247 jufi 2661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2662: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2663: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2664: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2665:
2666: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2667: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2668: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2669: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2670: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2671: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2672: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2673: <p>
1.247 jufi 2674: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2675:
1.69 deraadt 2676: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2677: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2680: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2681: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2682:
2683: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2684: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2685: available."
1.113 naddy 2686: <p>
1.247 jufi 2687: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2688:
1.69 deraadt 2689: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2690: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2691:
1.247 jufi 2692: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2693: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2694: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2695:
2696: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2697: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2698: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2699: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2700: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2701: <p>
1.33 louis 2702:
1.247 jufi 2703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2704: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2705: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2706: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2707:
1.113 naddy 2708: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2709: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2710: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2711: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2712: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2713: <p>
1.247 jufi 2714: </ul>
1.57 louis 2715:
1.69 deraadt 2716: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2717: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2718:
1.247 jufi 2719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2720: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2721: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2722: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2723:
2724: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2725: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2726: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2729: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2730: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2731: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2733:
2734: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2735: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2736:
1.247 jufi 2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2738: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2739:
1.113 naddy 2740: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2741:
1.247 jufi 2742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2743: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2744: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2745: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2746:
2747: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2748: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2749: </ul>
1.23 louis 2750:
1.69 deraadt 2751: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2752: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2753:
1.247 jufi 2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2755: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2756: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2757:
2758: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2759: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2760: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2761:
1.247 jufi 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2763: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2764: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2765: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2766:
2767: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2768: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2769: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2770: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2771: </ul>
1.57 louis 2772:
1.69 deraadt 2773: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2774: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2775:
1.247 jufi 2776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2777: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2778: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2779: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2780:
2781: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2782: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2783: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2784: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2785: <p>
1.15 louis 2786:
1.247 jufi 2787: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2788: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2789: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2790: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2791:
2792: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2793: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2794: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2795: columns."
1.113 naddy 2796: <p>
1.247 jufi 2797: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2798:
1.69 deraadt 2799: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2800: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2803: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2804: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2805: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2806:
2807: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2808: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2809:
1.113 naddy 2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2811: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2812: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2813:
2814: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2815: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2816: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2817: </ul>
1.57 louis 2818:
1.69 deraadt 2819: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2820: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2821:
1.113 naddy 2822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2823: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2824: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2825: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2826:
1.222 miod 2827: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2828: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2829: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2830: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2831: <p>
1.247 jufi 2832: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2833:
1.69 deraadt 2834: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2835: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2836:
1.247 jufi 2837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2838: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2839: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2840:
1.69 deraadt 2841: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2842: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2843: <p>
1.247 jufi 2844: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2845:
1.69 deraadt 2846: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2847: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2850: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2851: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2852: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2853:
2854: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2855: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2856: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2857:
1.247 jufi 2858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2859: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2860: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2861: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2862: <p>
1.247 jufi 2863: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2864:
1.69 deraadt 2865: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2866: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2867:
1.247 jufi 2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2869: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2870: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2871: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2872: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2873: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2874:
2875: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2876: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2877: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2878: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2879: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2880: <p>
1.247 jufi 2881: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2882:
2883: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2884: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2885:
1.247 jufi 2886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2887: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2888: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2889:
1.69 deraadt 2890: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2891: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2892: <p>
1.112 naddy 2893:
1.247 jufi 2894: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2895: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2896:
1.113 naddy 2897: <hr>
2898: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2899: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2900:
1.200 niklas 2901: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2902:
1.247 jufi 2903: <ul>
2904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2905: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2906: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2907:
2908: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2909: <p>
2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2912:
2913: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: <ul>
2916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2917: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2918: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2919:
2920: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2921: <p>
2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2924: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2925: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2926:
2927: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2928: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2929: <p>
2930:
1.247 jufi 2931: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2932:
2933: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <ul>
2936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2937: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2938: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2939:
2940: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2941: <p>
2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2944:
1.102 niklas 2945: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2946:
1.247 jufi 2947: <ul>
2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2949: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2950: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2951:
2952: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2953: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2954: <p>
1.102 niklas 2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2957:
1.84 niklas 2958: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2959:
1.247 jufi 2960: <ul>
2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2962: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2963: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2964:
2965: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2966: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2967: <p>
1.84 niklas 2968:
1.247 jufi 2969: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2970:
1.69 deraadt 2971: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <ul>
2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2975: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2976: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2977:
1.222 miod 2978: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2979: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2980: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2981: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2984: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2985: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2986: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2987: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2988:
1.20 louis 2989: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2990: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2991: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2992: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2993: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2994:
1.247 jufi 2995: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2996:
1.113 naddy 2997: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2998: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 2999: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 3000:
3001:
3002: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3003: <ul>
1.202 jufi 3004:
1.247 jufi 3005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 3006: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
3007: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3008:
3009: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
3010: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 3011: </ul>
1.202 jufi 3012:
3013: <hr>
1.113 naddy 3014: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 3015:
1.247 jufi 3016: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 3017:
3018:
1.170 louis 3019: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3020: <ul>
1.170 louis 3021:
1.247 jufi 3022: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 3023: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
3024: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3025: </strong></font><br>
3026:
3027: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3028: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3029: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3030: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3031: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3032: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3033: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 3034: <p>
1.247 jufi 3035: </ul>
1.170 louis 3036:
1.69 deraadt 3037: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3038: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 3041: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 3042: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 3043: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 3044:
3045: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3046: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3047: translating and reprinting articles from
3048: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 3049: <p>
1.247 jufi 3050: </ul>
1.20 louis 3051:
1.113 naddy 3052: <hr>
3053: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 3054: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 3055:
1.246 jufi 3056: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3057: <ul>
3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3059: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
3060: December 04, 2002
3061: </strong></font><br>
3062: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
3063: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3064: <p>
1.247 jufi 3065: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3066:
1.151 louis 3067: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3068: <ul>
1.151 louis 3069:
1.247 jufi 3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 3071: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3072: </strong></font><br>
3073:
3074: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3075: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3076: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3077: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3078: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3079: <p>
1.247 jufi 3080: </ul>
1.151 louis 3081:
1.72 louis 3082: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3083: <ul>
1.72 louis 3084:
1.247 jufi 3085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 3086: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 3087: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 3088: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 3089:
1.101 jufi 3090: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 3091: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3092: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 3093: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 3094: Giving way to
3095: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3096: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3097: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3098: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 3099: <p>
1.247 jufi 3100: </ul>
1.72 louis 3101:
1.69 deraadt 3102: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3103: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3104:
1.247 jufi 3105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3106: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 3107: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 3108: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 3109:
3110: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3111: <p>
1.247 jufi 3112: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3113:
1.50 louis 3114:
1.113 naddy 3115: <hr>
3116: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 3117: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 3118:
1.69 deraadt 3119: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3120: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3121:
1.247 jufi 3122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3123: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3124: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 3125: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 3126:
3127: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 3128: <p>
1.247 jufi 3129: </ul>
1.62 form 3130:
1.69 deraadt 3131: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3132: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3133:
1.247 jufi 3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3135: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3136: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3137: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3138:
1.59 form 3139: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.112 naddy 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3143:
1.113 naddy 3144: <hr>
3145: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3146: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3147: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3148:
1.247 jufi 3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3150: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3151: Radio, August 2, 2000
3152: </strong></font><br>
3153:
3154: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3155: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3156: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3157: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3158: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3159: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3160: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3161: <p>
3162:
1.247 jufi 3163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3164: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3165: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3166: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3167: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3168:
3169: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3170: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3171: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3172: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3173: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3174: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3175: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3176: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3177: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3178: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3179: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3180: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3181: <p>
1.247 jufi 3182: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3183:
1.113 naddy 3184: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3185: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3186: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3187:
3188: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3189: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3190:
1.247 jufi 3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3192: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3193: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3194: </strong></font><br>
3195:
3196: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3197: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3198: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3199: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3200: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3201: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3202: A
1.216 horacio 3203: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3204: <p>
1.247 jufi 3205: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3206:
1.252 miod 3207: <hr>
3208: <a name=fr></a>
3209: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3210:
3211: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3212: <ul>
3213:
3214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3215: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3216: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3217: </strong></font><br>
3218:
3219: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3220: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3221: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3222: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3223: <p>
3224: </ul>
3225:
1.216 horacio 3226:
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3228: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3229: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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