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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>
1.287 ! jsyn 103: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 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>,
1.287 ! jsyn 109: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
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>
1.285 jsyn 184: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
185: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
186: Indianapolis Star, IN.
187: </strong></font>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 190: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
191: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
192: Miami Herald, FL.
193: </strong></font>
194:
195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 196: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 197: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
198: </strong></font>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
201: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 202: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 203: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 204: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
207: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
208: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
209: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
210: ABC News.
211: </strong></font>
212:
1.276 deraadt 213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
214: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
215: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.284 jsyn 216: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 217: </strong></font>
218:
1.286 dhartmei 219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
220: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
221: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
222: Wilmington Star, NC.
223: </strong></font>
224:
1.263 deraadt 225: </ul>
1.262 beck 226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 229: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
230: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 231: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 232: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 233: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 234: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
235: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 239: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
240: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
241: OS News, April 18, 2003.
242: </strong></font><br>
243: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
244: <p>
245:
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 247: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
248: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 249: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 250: </strong></font><br>
251: Another report on the DARPA funding.
252: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
253: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 257: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
258: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 259: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 260: </strong></font><br>
261: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
262: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
263: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
264: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
265: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
266: Goes on to say:
267: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
268: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
269: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
270: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 271: This article is also found online at:
272: <ul>
273: <li><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
274: BusinessWeek.com</a>
275: <li><a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">ZDnet</a>
276: </ul>
1.260 ian 277: <p>
1.279 deraadt 278:
1.260 ian 279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
280: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
281: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 282: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 283: </strong></font><br>
1.265 deraadt 284: SlashDot report (and user folloups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 285: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
286: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
287: without notice or justification.
288: <p>
289:
290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
291: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
292: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 293: MARC (Mailing list ARchives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 294: </strong></font><br>
295: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
296: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
297: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
298: effective today, without any warning..."
299: <p>
1.257 ian 300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 302: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
303: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 304: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 305: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 306: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
307: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
308: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
309: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
310: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 311: <p>
312:
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 314: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
315: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 316: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 317: </strong></font><br>
318: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
319: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
320: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
321: quoting two of them:
322: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
323: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
324: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
325: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
326: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
327: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
328: <p>
329:
1.255 ian 330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 331: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
332: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 333: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 334: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 335: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 336: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
337: security experts for more than three decades."
338: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
339: <p>
1.261 ian 340:
1.254 drahn 341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 342: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
343: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 344: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 345: </strong></font><br>
346: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
347: from US DARPA.
348: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
349: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
350: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
351: the BSD license.
352: <p>
353: </ul>
354:
1.251 ian 355: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
356: <ul>
357:
358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
359: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
360: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 361: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 362: </strong></font><br>
363: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
364: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
365: Mentions
366: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
367: and
368: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
369: programs.
370: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
371: goverment purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
372: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
373: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
374: <p>
1.260 ian 375:
376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
377: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
378: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
379: </strong></font><br>
380: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
381: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
382: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
383: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
384: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
385: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
386: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
387: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
388: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
389: put into service."
390: <p>
391: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
392: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
393: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
394: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
395: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
396: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
397: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
398: computers with security features."
399: <p>
1.251 ian 400: </ul>
401:
1.249 jufi 402: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
403: <ul>
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
405: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
406: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 407: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 408: </strong></font><br>
409: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
410: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
411: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no reponse politics.
412: <p>
413: </ul>
414:
1.246 jufi 415: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 416: <ul>
1.246 jufi 417:
1.247 jufi 418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 419: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 420: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
421: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 422: </strong></font><br>
423: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
424: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
425: <p>
426:
1.247 jufi 427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 428: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 429: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
430: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 431: </strong></font><br>
432: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
433: in their annual OpenHack security test.
434: <p>
1.247 jufi 435: </ul>
1.246 jufi 436:
1.244 jufi 437: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 438: <ul>
1.246 jufi 439:
1.247 jufi 440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 441: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
442: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
443: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 444: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 445: </strong></font><br>
446: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
447: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
448: md5 digests.
449: <p>
450:
1.247 jufi 451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 452: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 453: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
454: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 455: </strong></font><br>
456: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
457: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
458: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
459: right the first time."
460: <p>
1.247 jufi 461: </ul>
1.244 jufi 462:
463:
464: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 465: <ul>
1.244 jufi 466:
1.247 jufi 467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 468: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 469: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
470: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 471: </strong></font><br>
472: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
473: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
474: part 6</a>.
475: <p>
476:
1.247 jufi 477: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 478: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 479: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
480: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 481: </strong></font><br>
482: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
483: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
484: <p>
1.247 jufi 485: </ul>
1.242 jufi 486:
487: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 488: <ul>
1.242 jufi 489:
1.247 jufi 490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 491: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 492: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
493: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 494: </strong></font><br>
495: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
496: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
497: <p>
498:
1.247 jufi 499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 500: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 501: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
502: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 503: </strong></font><br>
504: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
505: this time using pf.
506: <p>
1.247 jufi 507: </ul>
1.242 jufi 508:
509: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 510: <ul>
1.242 jufi 511:
1.247 jufi 512: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 513: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 514: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
515: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 516: </strong></font><br>
517: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
518: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
519: their rotation.
520: <p>
521:
1.247 jufi 522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 523: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 524: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
525: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 526: </strong></font><br>
527: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
528: <p>
1.247 jufi 529: </ul>
1.242 jufi 530:
1.239 jufi 531: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 532: <ul>
1.239 jufi 533:
1.247 jufi 534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 535: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 536: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
537: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 538: </strong></font><br>
539: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
540: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
541: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
542: <p>
543:
1.247 jufi 544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 545: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 546: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
547: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 548: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 549: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
550: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
551: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 552: <p>
1.247 jufi 553: </ul>
1.239 jufi 554:
1.235 lebel 555: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 556: <ul>
1.235 lebel 557:
1.239 jufi 558:
1.247 jufi 559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 560: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 561: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
562: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 563: </strong></font><br>
564: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
565: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
566: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
567: <p>
1.247 jufi 568: </ul>
1.235 lebel 569:
1.228 horacio 570: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 571: <ul>
1.228 horacio 572:
1.247 jufi 573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 574: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 575: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
576: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 577: </strong></font><br>
578: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
579: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
580: <p>
581:
1.247 jufi 582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 583: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 584: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
585: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 586: </strong></font><br>
587: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
588: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
589: <p>
590:
1.247 jufi 591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 592: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 593: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
594: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 595: </strong></font><br>
596: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
597: on the desktop of his parents.
598: <p>
599:
1.247 jufi 600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 601: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 602: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
603: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 604: </strong></font><br>
605: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
606: using IPFilter.
607:
608: <p>
609:
1.247 jufi 610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 611: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 612: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
613: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 614: </strong></font><br>
615: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
616: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
617: perspectives of the four OS.
618: <br>
619: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 620: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 621: <p>
622:
1.247 jufi 623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 624: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
625: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 626: software and security</a>,
627: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 628: </strong></font><br>
629:
630: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
631: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
632: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
633: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
634: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
635: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
636: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
637: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
638: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
639: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
640: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
641: security conscious team beyond doubt.
642: <p>
1.247 jufi 643: </ul>
1.228 horacio 644:
1.225 horacio 645: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 646: <ul>
1.225 horacio 647:
1.247 jufi 648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 649: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
650: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 651: Interview</a>,
652: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 653: </strong></font><br>
654:
655: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
656: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
657: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 658: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 659: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
660: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
661: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
662: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
663: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 664: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 665: of choice.
666: <p>
1.247 jufi 667: </ul>
1.225 horacio 668:
669: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 670: <ul>
1.225 horacio 671:
1.247 jufi 672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 673: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 674: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
675: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 676: </strong></font><br>
677:
678: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
679: <p>
680:
1.247 jufi 681: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 682: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 683: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
684: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 685: </strong></font><br>
686:
687: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
688: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
689: <p>
1.247 jufi 690: </ul>
1.225 horacio 691:
1.218 horacio 692: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 693: <ul>
1.218 horacio 694:
1.247 jufi 695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 696: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 697: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
698: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 699: </strong></font><br>
700:
701: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
702: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
703: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
704: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
705: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
706: subjects. Worth a read.
707: <p>
708:
709:
1.247 jufi 710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 711: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 712: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
713: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 714: </strong></font><br>
715:
716: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
717: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
718: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
719: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
720: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
721: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
722: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
723: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
724: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 725: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 726: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
727: on other operating systems.<br>
728: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
729: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
730: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
731: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
732: <p>
733:
1.247 jufi 734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 735: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 736: Operating System 2010</a>,
737: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 738: </strong></font><br>
739:
740: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
741: covering the level of software integration into the core
742: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
743: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
744: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
745: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
746: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
747: <p>
748:
1.247 jufi 749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 750: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 751: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
752: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 753: </strong></font><br>
754:
755: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
756: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
757: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
758: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
759: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
760: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
761: <p>
1.247 jufi 762: </ul>
1.221 horacio 763:
1.210 jufi 764: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 765: <ul>
1.215 horacio 766:
1.247 jufi 767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 768: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 769: Already a Contender</a>,
770: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 771: </strong></font><br>
772:
773: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
774: source software in response to an article which claimed that
775: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
776: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
777: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
778: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
779: <p>
780:
1.247 jufi 781: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 782: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 783: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
784: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 785: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 786:
1.224 horacio 787: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
788: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
789: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
790: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
791: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
792: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 793: <p>
1.247 jufi 794: </ul>
1.215 horacio 795:
796: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 797: <ul>
1.215 horacio 798:
1.247 jufi 799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 800: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
801: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 802: Division</a>,
803: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 804: </strong></font><br>
805:
806: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
807: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 808: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 809: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
810: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
811: investment</em>.<br>
812: The implementation details can be seen on their
813: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
814: <p>
815:
1.247 jufi 816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 817: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 818: Thinking about Security</a>,
819: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 820: </strong></font><br>
821:
822: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
823: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
824: security and says that even secured operating systems running
825: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
826: to time.<br>
827: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
828: system and just the most secure system.
829: <p>
830:
1.247 jufi 831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 832: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 833: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
834: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 835: </strong></font><br>
836:
837: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
838: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
839: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
840: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
841: choice:<br>
842: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
843: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
844: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
845: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
846: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
847: network security devices and as such must be well
848: armored."</em><br>
849: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
850: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
851: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
852: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
853: <br>
854: Bravo!
855: <p>
1.247 jufi 856: </ul>
1.210 jufi 857:
1.207 ian 858: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 859: <ul>
1.215 horacio 860:
1.247 jufi 861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 862: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
863: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
864: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 865:
1.207 ian 866: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
867: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 868: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 869: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
870: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
871: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 872: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 873: <p>
1.247 jufi 874: </ul>
1.207 ian 875:
1.194 jufi 876: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 877: <ul>
1.194 jufi 878:
1.247 jufi 879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 880: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 881: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
882: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 883: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 884:
1.240 miod 885: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 886: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
887: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
888: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
889: <p>
890:
1.247 jufi 891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 892: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 893: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
894: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
895: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 896:
1.240 miod 897: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 898: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 899: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
900: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
901: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 902: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 903: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
904: <br>
905: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
906: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
907: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
908: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
909: <p>
910:
1.247 jufi 911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 912: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
913: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 914: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 915: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 916:
1.194 jufi 917: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
918: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
919: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
920: <br>
921: The new
922: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 923: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 924: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
925: <p>
1.247 jufi 926: </ul>
1.194 jufi 927:
1.190 horacio 928: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 929: <ul>
1.190 horacio 930:
1.247 jufi 931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 932:
933: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
934: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
935:
936: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
937: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
938:
939: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
940: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
941:
1.212 horacio 942: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
943: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 944: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
945:
1.211 horacio 946: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
947: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 948: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
949:
1.247 jufi 950: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 951: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
952:
1.247 jufi 953: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 954: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
955:
1.212 horacio 956: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
957: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 958: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
959:
960: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
961: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
962:
963: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
964: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
965:
966: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
967: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
968:
969: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 970: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 971:
1.192 jufi 972: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
973: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 974: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 975:
1.193 deraadt 976: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
977: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 978: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 979:
1.247 jufi 980: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 981: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
982:
1.247 jufi 983: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 984: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
985: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
986:
1.213 horacio 987: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 988: 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 989: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
990:
1.190 horacio 991: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 992: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
993: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
994: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
995: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
996: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
997: <p>
1.190 horacio 998:
1.247 jufi 999: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1000: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1001: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1002: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1003: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1004:
1.195 jufi 1005: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1006: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1007: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1008: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1009: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1010: <p>
1011:
1.247 jufi 1012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1013: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1014: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1015: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1016: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1017:
1.191 jufi 1018: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1019: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
1020: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
1021: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 1022: <p>
1.247 jufi 1023: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1024:
1.191 jufi 1025:
1.186 jufi 1026: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1027: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1028:
1.247 jufi 1029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1030: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1031: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1032: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1033: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1034:
1.188 jufi 1035: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1036: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1037: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1038: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1039: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1040: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1041: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1042: <p>
1043:
1.191 jufi 1044:
1.247 jufi 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1046: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1047: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1048: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1049: </strong></font><br>
1050:
1051: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1052: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1053: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1054: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1055: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1056: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1057: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1058: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1059: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1060: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1061: familiar?
1062: <p>
1.247 jufi 1063: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1064:
1.178 louis 1065: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1066: <ul>
1.178 louis 1067:
1.247 jufi 1068: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1069: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1070: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1071: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1072: </strong></font><br>
1073:
1074: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1075: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1076: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1077: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1078: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1079: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1080: <p>
1081:
1.247 jufi 1082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1083: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1084: Open source under the hood</a>,
1085: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1086: </strong></font><br>
1087:
1088: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1089: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1090: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1091: <p>
1092:
1.247 jufi 1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1094: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1095: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1096: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1097: </strong></font><br>
1098:
1099: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1100: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1101: <p>
1.247 jufi 1102: </ul>
1.179 louis 1103:
1.174 louis 1104:
1.175 louis 1105: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1106: <ul>
1.175 louis 1107:
1.247 jufi 1108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1109: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1110: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1111: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1112: </strong></font><br>
1113:
1114: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1115: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1116: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1117: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1118: <p>
1119:
1.247 jufi 1120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1121: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1122: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1123: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1124: </strong></font><br>
1125:
1126: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1127: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1128: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1129: <p>
1.247 jufi 1130: </ul>
1.175 louis 1131:
1.176 louis 1132:
1.172 mickey 1133: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1134: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1135:
1.247 jufi 1136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1137: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1138: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1139: </strong></font><br>
1140:
1141: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1142: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1143: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1144: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1145: <p>
1146:
1.247 jufi 1147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1148: <a
1.269 deraadt 1149: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1150: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1151: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1152: </strong></font><br>
1153:
1154: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1155: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1156: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1157: <p>
1158:
1.247 jufi 1159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1160: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1161: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1162: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1163: </strong></font><br>
1164:
1165: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1166: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1167: <p>
1168:
1.247 jufi 1169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1170: <a
1.269 deraadt 1171: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1172: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1173: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1174: </strong></font><br>
1175:
1176: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1177: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1178: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1179: our own Theo de Raadt.
1180: <p>
1181:
1.247 jufi 1182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1183: <a
1.269 deraadt 1184: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1185: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1186: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1187: </strong></font><br>
1188:
1189: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1190: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1191: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1192: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1193: shut down.]
1194: <p>
1195:
1.247 jufi 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1197: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1198: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1199: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1200: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1201: </strong></font><br>
1202:
1203: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1204: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1205: <p>
1.247 jufi 1206: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1207:
1.161 louis 1208: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1209: <ul>
1.161 louis 1210:
1.247 jufi 1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1212: <a
1.269 deraadt 1213: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1214: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1215: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1216: </strong></font><br>
1217:
1218: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1219: by John Wolley
1220: <p>
1221:
1.247 jufi 1222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1223: <a
1.269 deraadt 1224: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1225: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1226: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1227: </strong></font><br>
1228:
1229: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1230: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1231: OpenBSD).
1232: <p>
1233:
1.247 jufi 1234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1235: <a
1.247 jufi 1236: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1237: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1238: </strong></font><br>
1239:
1240: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1241: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1242: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1243: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1244: and hindsight.
1245: <p>
1246:
1.247 jufi 1247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1248: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1249: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1250: </strong></font><br>
1251:
1252: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1253: <p>
1254:
1.247 jufi 1255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1256: <a
1.168 provos 1257: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1258: December 7, 2000
1259: </strong></font><br>
1260:
1261: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1262: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1263: us explain.
1264: <p>
1265:
1.247 jufi 1266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1267: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1268: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1269: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1270: December 6, 2000
1271: </strong></font><br>
1272:
1273: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1274: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1275: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1276: <p>
1277:
1.247 jufi 1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1279: <a
1.226 horacio 1280: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1281: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1282: </strong></font><br>
1283:
1284: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1285: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1286: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1287: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1288: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1289: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1290: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1291: <p>
1.162 millert 1292:
1.247 jufi 1293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1294: <a
1.161 louis 1295: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1296: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1297: </strong></font><br>
1298:
1299: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1300: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1301: <p>
1302:
1.247 jufi 1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1304: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1305: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1306: </strong></font><br>
1307:
1308: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1309: <p>
1310:
1311:
1.247 jufi 1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1313: <a
1.226 horacio 1314: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1315: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1316: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1317: </strong></font><br>
1318:
1319: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1320: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1321: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1322: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1323: <p>
1.247 jufi 1324: </ul>
1.169 louis 1325:
1.158 louis 1326: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1327: <ul>
1.147 louis 1328:
1.247 jufi 1329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1330: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1331: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1332: </strong></font><br>
1333:
1334: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1335: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1336: <p>
1337:
1.247 jufi 1338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1339: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1340: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1341: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1342: </strong></font><br>
1343: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1344: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1345: <p>
1346:
1.247 jufi 1347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1348: <a
1349: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1350: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1351: </strong></font><br>
1352:
1353: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1354: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1355: <p>
1356:
1.247 jufi 1357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1358: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1359: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1360: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1361:
1.213 horacio 1362: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1363: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1364: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1365: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1366: <p>
1.215 horacio 1367:
1.247 jufi 1368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1369: <a
1370: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1371: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1372: </strong></font><br>
1373:
1374: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1375: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1376: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1377: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1378: much of the attitude too).
1379: <p>
1.161 louis 1380:
1.247 jufi 1381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1382: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1383: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1384: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1385:
1.157 louis 1386: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1387: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1388: <p>
1.247 jufi 1389: </ul>
1.157 louis 1390:
1391: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1392: <ul>
1.157 louis 1393:
1.247 jufi 1394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1395: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1396: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1397: </strong></font><br>
1398:
1399: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1400: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1401: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1402: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1403: <p>
1404:
1.247 jufi 1405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1406: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1407: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1408: </strong></font><br>
1409:
1410: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1411: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1412: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1413: it because they love coding...
1414: <p>
1415:
1.247 jufi 1416: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1417: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1418: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1419: </strong></font><br>
1420:
1421: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1422: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1423: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1424: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1425: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1426: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1427: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1428: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1429: <p>
1430:
1.247 jufi 1431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1432: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1433: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1434: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1435: </strong></font><br>
1436:
1437: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1438: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1439: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1440: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1441: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1442: the pizza.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1446: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1447: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1448: </strong></font><br>
1449:
1450: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1451: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1452: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1453: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1454: problems.
1455: <p>
1456:
1.247 jufi 1457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1458: <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 1459: </strong></font><br>
1460:
1.222 miod 1461: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1462: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1463: - whether they like it or not.
1464: <p>
1465:
1.247 jufi 1466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1467: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1468: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1469: </strong></font><br>
1470:
1471: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1472: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1473: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1474: <p>
1.148 aaron 1475:
1.247 jufi 1476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1477: <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 1478: </strong></font><br>
1479:
1480: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1481: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1482: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1483: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1484: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1485: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1486: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1487: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1488: <p>
1489:
1.247 jufi 1490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1491: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1492: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1493: </strong></font><br>
1494:
1495: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1496: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1497: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1498: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1499: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1500: <p>
1.247 jufi 1501: </ul>
1.147 louis 1502:
1.138 louis 1503: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1504: <ul>
1.138 louis 1505:
1.247 jufi 1506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1507: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1508: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1509: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1510: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1511: </strong></font><br>
1512:
1.227 horacio 1513: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1514: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1515: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1516: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1517: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1518: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1519: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1520: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1521: <p>
1522:
1.247 jufi 1523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1524: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1525: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1526: </strong></font><br>
1527:
1528: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1529: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1530: groups, and even Linux.
1531: <p>
1532:
1.247 jufi 1533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1534: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1535: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1536: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1537: </strong></font><br>
1538:
1539: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1540: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1541: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1542: library after installing the OS.
1543: <p>
1544:
1.247 jufi 1545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1546: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1547: Sys Admin, September 2000
1548: </strong></font><br>
1549:
1550: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1551: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1552: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1553: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1554: (<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>,
1555: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1556: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1557: <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 1558: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1559: out of the system.
1560: <p>
1561:
1.247 jufi 1562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1563: <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
1564: </strong></font><br>
1565:
1566: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1567: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1568: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1569: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1570: the IP filtering and address translation.
1571: <p>
1.247 jufi 1572: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1573:
1.131 louis 1574: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1575: <ul>
1.131 louis 1576:
1.247 jufi 1577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1578: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1579: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1580: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1581: </strong></font><br>
1582:
1583: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1584: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1585: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1586: <p>
1587:
1.247 jufi 1588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1589: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1590: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1591: </strong></font><br>
1592:
1593: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1594: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1595: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1596: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1597: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1598: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1599: note of"</i>.
1600: <p>
1601:
1.247 jufi 1602: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1603: <a
1.247 jufi 1604: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1605: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1606: </strong></font><br>
1607:
1608: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1609: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1610: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1611: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1612: <p>
1613:
1.247 jufi 1614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1615: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1616: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1617: </strong></font><br>
1618:
1619: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1620: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1621: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1622: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1623: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1624: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1625: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1626: <p>
1627:
1.247 jufi 1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1629: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1630: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1631: 2000
1632: </strong></font><br>
1633:
1634: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1635: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1636: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1637: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1638: against current industry practices.
1639: <p>
1640:
1.247 jufi 1641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1642: <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
1643: </strong></font><br>
1644:
1645: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1646: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1647: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1648: <p>
1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1651: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1652: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1653: </strong></font><br>
1654:
1655: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1656: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1657: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1658: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1659: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1660: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1661: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1662: <p>
1663:
1.247 jufi 1664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1665: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1666: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1667: </strong></font><br>
1668:
1669: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1670: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1671: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1672: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1673: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1674: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1675: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1676: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1677: <p>
1.247 jufi 1678: </ul>
1.131 louis 1679:
1.118 louis 1680: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1681: <ul>
1.118 louis 1682:
1.247 jufi 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1684: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1685: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1686: </strong></font><br>
1687:
1688: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1689: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1690: about time. The article mentions that
1691: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1692: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1693: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1694: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1695: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1696: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1697: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1698: <p>
1699:
1.247 jufi 1700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1701: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1702: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1703: </strong></font><br>
1704:
1705: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1706: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1707: of OpenSSH.
1708: <p>
1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1711: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1712: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1713: </strong></font><br>
1714:
1715: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1716: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1717: bridging.
1718: <p>
1719:
1.247 jufi 1720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1721: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1722: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1723: </strong></font><br>
1724:
1.121 deraadt 1725: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1726: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1727: <p>
1728:
1.247 jufi 1729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1730: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1731: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1732: </strong></font><br>
1733:
1734: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1735: <p>
1736:
1.247 jufi 1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1738: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1739: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1740: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1741: </strong></font><br>
1742:
1.120 deraadt 1743: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1744: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1745: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1746: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1747: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1748: <p>
1749:
1.247 jufi 1750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1751: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1752: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1753: </strong></font><br>
1754:
1.222 miod 1755: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1756: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1757: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1758: protocols and their quirks.
1759: <p>
1760:
1.247 jufi 1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1762: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1763: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1764: </strong></font><br>
1765:
1766: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1767: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1768: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1769: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1770: <p>
1771:
1.247 jufi 1772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1773: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1774: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1775: </strong></font><br>
1776:
1777: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1778: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1779: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1780: <p>
1781:
1.247 jufi 1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1783: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1784: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
1785: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 1786: </strong></font><br>
1787:
1788: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
1789: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
1790: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1791: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1792: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1793: <p>
1.247 jufi 1794: </ul>
1.118 louis 1795:
1.104 louis 1796: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1797: <ul>
1.104 louis 1798:
1.247 jufi 1799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 1800: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1801: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1802: </strong></font><br>
1803:
1804: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1805: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1806: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1807: be a bit dry.
1808: <p>
1809:
1.247 jufi 1810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1811: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1812: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1813: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1814: </strong></font><br>
1815: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1816: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1817: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1818: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1819: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1820: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1821: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1822: <p>
1823:
1.247 jufi 1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1825: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1826: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1827: 2000
1.128 louis 1828: </strong></font><br>
1829:
1830: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1831: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1832: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1833: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1834: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1835: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1836: <p>
1837:
1.247 jufi 1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1839: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1840: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1841: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1842:
1843: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1844: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1845: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1846: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1847: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1848: <p>
1.110 louis 1849:
1.247 jufi 1850: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 1851: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1852: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1853: </strong></font><br>
1854:
1855: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1856: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1857: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1858: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1859: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1860: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1861: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1862: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1863: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1864: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1865: <p>
1866:
1.247 jufi 1867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 1868: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1869: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1870:
1871: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1872: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1873: <p>
1.108 louis 1874:
1.247 jufi 1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 1876: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1877: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1878: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1879:
1880: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1881: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1882: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1883: <p>
1.106 louis 1884:
1.247 jufi 1885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 1886: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1887: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1888: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1889:
1890: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1891: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1892: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1893: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1894: <p>
1.107 louis 1895:
1.247 jufi 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1897: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1898: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1899: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1900:
1901: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1902: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1903: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1904: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1905: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1906: <p>
1.105 louis 1907:
1.247 jufi 1908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 1909: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1910: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1911: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1912:
1.113 naddy 1913: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1914: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1915: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1916: <p>
1.104 louis 1917:
1.247 jufi 1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1919: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1920: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1921: </strong></font><br>
1922:
1923: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1924: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1925: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1926: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1927: <p>
1.247 jufi 1928: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 1929:
1.85 louis 1930: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1931: <ul>
1.85 louis 1932:
1.247 jufi 1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1934: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1935: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1936: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1937:
1938: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1939: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1940: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1941: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1942: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1943: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1944: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1945: <p>
1.99 louis 1946:
1.247 jufi 1947: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1948: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1949: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1950: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1951:
1952: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1953: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1954: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1955: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1956: <p>
1.100 louis 1957:
1.247 jufi 1958: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1959: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1960: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1961: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1962:
1963: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1964: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1965: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1966: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1967: <p>
1.95 louis 1968:
1.247 jufi 1969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1970: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1971: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1972: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1973:
1974: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1975: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1976: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1977: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1978: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1979: <p>
1.92 louis 1980:
1.247 jufi 1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1982: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1983: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1984: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1985:
1986: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1987: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1988: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1989: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1990: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1991: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1992: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1993: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1994: <p>
1.91 louis 1995:
1.247 jufi 1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1997: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1998: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1999: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2000:
2001: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2002: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2003: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2004: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2005: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2006: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2007: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2008: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2009: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2010: <p>
1.90 louis 2011:
1.247 jufi 2012: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2013: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2014: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2015: </strong></font><br>
2016: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2017: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2018: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2019: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2020: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2021: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2022: <p>
2023:
1.247 jufi 2024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2025: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2026: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2027: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2028:
1.113 naddy 2029: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2030: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2031: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2032: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2033: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2034: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2035: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2036: <p>
1.87 louis 2037:
1.247 jufi 2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2039: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2040: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2041: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2042:
2043: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2044: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2045: <p>
1.85 louis 2046:
1.247 jufi 2047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2048: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2049: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2050: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2051:
2052: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2053: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2054: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2055: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2056: <p>
1.89 louis 2057:
1.247 jufi 2058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2059: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2060: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2061: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2062:
2063: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2064: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2065: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2066: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2067: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2068: </ul>
1.85 louis 2069:
1.78 deraadt 2070: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2071: <ul>
1.74 louis 2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2074: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2075: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2076: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2077: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2078:
2079: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2080: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2081: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2082: <p>
1.83 louis 2083:
1.247 jufi 2084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2085: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2086: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2087: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2088:
2089: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2090: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2091: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2092: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2093: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2094: <p>
1.93 louis 2095:
1.247 jufi 2096: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2097: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2098: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2099: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2100: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2101:
1.83 louis 2102: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2103: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2104: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2105: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2106: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2107: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2108: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2109: <p>
1.82 aaron 2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2112: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2113: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2114: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2115:
1.83 louis 2116: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2117: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2118: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2119: <p>
1.80 louis 2120:
1.247 jufi 2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2122: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2123: Bad Press</a>,
2124: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2125: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2126:
2127: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2128: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2129: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2130: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2131: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2132: <p>
1.247 jufi 2133: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2134:
2135: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2136: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2137:
1.247 jufi 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2139: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2140: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2141: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2142: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2143:
2144: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2145: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2146: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2147: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2148: <p>
1.74 louis 2149:
1.247 jufi 2150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2151: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2152: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2153: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2154:
1.219 horacio 2155: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2156: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2157: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2158: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2159: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2160: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2161: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2162: <p>
1.88 louis 2163:
1.247 jufi 2164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2165: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2166: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2167: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2168:
2169: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2170: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2171: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2172: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2173: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2174: <p>
1.81 louis 2175:
1.247 jufi 2176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2177: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2178: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2179: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2180:
2181: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2182: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2183: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2184: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2185: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2186: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2187: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2188: <p>
1.90 louis 2189:
1.247 jufi 2190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2191: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2192: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2193: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2194:
2195: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2196: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2197: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2198: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2199: <p>
1.247 jufi 2200: </ul>
1.71 louis 2201:
1.69 deraadt 2202: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2203: <ul>
1.70 louis 2204:
1.247 jufi 2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2206: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2207: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2208: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2209:
2210: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2211: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2212: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2213: <p>
1.70 louis 2214:
1.247 jufi 2215: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2216: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2217: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2218: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2219:
2220: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2221: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2222: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2223: <p>
1.68 louis 2224:
1.247 jufi 2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2226: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2227: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2228: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2229: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2230:
1.111 jufi 2231: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2232: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2233: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2234: "secure by default" installation.
2235: <p>
1.64 louis 2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2238: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2239: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2240: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2241:
1.113 naddy 2242: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2243: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2244: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2245: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2246: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2247: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2248: <p>
1.66 louis 2249:
1.247 jufi 2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2251: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2252: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2253: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2254:
2255: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2256: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2257: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2258: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2259: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2260: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2261: <p>
1.83 louis 2262:
1.247 jufi 2263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2264: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2265: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2266: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2267:
2268: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2269: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2270: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2271: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2272: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2273: <p>
1.64 louis 2274:
1.247 jufi 2275: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2276: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2277: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2278: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2279:
2280: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2281: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2282: <p>
1.247 jufi 2283: </ul>
1.65 louis 2284:
1.69 deraadt 2285: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2286: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2289: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2290: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2291: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2292:
2293: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2294: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2295: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2296: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2297: <p>
1.88 louis 2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2300: <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 2301: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2302:
2303: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2304: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2305: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2306: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2307: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2308: <p>
1.60 louis 2309:
1.247 jufi 2310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2311: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2312: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2313: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2314: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2315:
2316: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2317: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2318: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2319: <p>
1.58 louis 2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2322: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2323: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2324:
2325: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2326: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2327: <p>
1.53 louis 2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2330: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2331: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2332: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2333:
2334: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2335: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2336: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2337: <p>
1.99 louis 2338:
1.247 jufi 2339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2340: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2341: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2342:
2343: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2344: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2345: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2346: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2347: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2350: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2351: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2352: </strong></font><br>
2353:
2354: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2355: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2356: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2357: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2358: <p>
2359:
1.247 jufi 2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2361: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2362: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2363: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2364:
2365: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2366: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2367: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2368:
1.247 jufi 2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2370: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2371: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2372:
2373: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2374: in
1.247 jufi 2375: <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 2376: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2377: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2378: <p>
1.53 louis 2379:
1.247 jufi 2380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2381: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2382: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2383: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2384: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2385:
1.58 louis 2386: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2387: <p>
1.247 jufi 2388: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2389:
1.69 deraadt 2390: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2391: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2394: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2395: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2396: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2397: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2398:
1.58 louis 2399: Kurt Seifried
2400: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2401: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2402: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2403: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2404:
1.247 jufi 2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2406: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2407: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2408: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2409:
2410: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2411: <p>
1.96 louis 2412:
1.247 jufi 2413: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2414: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2415: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2416: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2417:
2418: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2419: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2420: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2421: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2422: <p>
1.247 jufi 2423: </ul>
1.86 louis 2424:
1.69 deraadt 2425: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2426: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2429: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2430: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2431: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2432:
2433: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2434: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2435: <p>
1.61 louis 2436:
1.247 jufi 2437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2438: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2439: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2440: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2441: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2442:
2443: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2444: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2445: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2446: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2447: right -- or at least strives to".
2448: <p>
1.48 louis 2449:
1.247 jufi 2450: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2451: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2452: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2453: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2454: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2455: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2456: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2457: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2458: <p>
1.61 louis 2459:
1.247 jufi 2460: <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 2461: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2462: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2463:
2464: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2465: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2466: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2467: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2468: <p>
1.46 louis 2469:
1.247 jufi 2470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2471: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2472: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2473: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2474:
2475: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2476: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2477: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2480: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2481: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2482: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2483:
2484: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2485: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2486: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2487: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2488: <p>
1.247 jufi 2489: </ul>
1.70 louis 2490:
1.69 deraadt 2491: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2492: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2495: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2496: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2497: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2498: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2499:
2500: Kurt Seifried
2501: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2502: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2503: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2504: <p>
1.44 philen 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <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 2507: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2508: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2509:
2510: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2511: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2512:
1.247 jufi 2513: <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 2514: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2515: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2516:
2517: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2518: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2519:
1.247 jufi 2520: <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 2521: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2522: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2523:
2524: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2525: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2526: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2527: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2528: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <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 2531: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2532: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2533:
1.36 louis 2534: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2535: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2536:
1.247 jufi 2537: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2538: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2539: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2540: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2541:
2542: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2543: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2544: </ul>
1.38 louis 2545:
1.69 deraadt 2546: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2547: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2548:
1.247 jufi 2549: <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 2550: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2551: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2552:
2553: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2554: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2555: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2556:
1.113 naddy 2557: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2558: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2559: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2560: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2561:
2562: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2563: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2564: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2565: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2566: <blockquote>
2567: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2568: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2569: <br>
2570: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2571: </code>
2572: </blockquote>
2573: <p>
2574:
1.247 jufi 2575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2576: <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>
2577: <p>
2578:
2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2580: <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 2581: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2582:
2583: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2584: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2585: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2586: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2589: <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 2590: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2591:
2592: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2593: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2594: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2595: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2596: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2597: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2598: <p>
1.19 louis 2599:
1.113 naddy 2600: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2601: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2602: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2603:
2604: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2605: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2606: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2607: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2608: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2609: <p>
1.16 louis 2610:
1.247 jufi 2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2612: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2613: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2614: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2615:
1.57 louis 2616: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2617: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2618: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2619: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2620:
1.247 jufi 2621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2622: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2623: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2624: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2625:
1.113 naddy 2626: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2627:
1.247 jufi 2628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2629: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2630: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2631: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2632:
1.23 louis 2633: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2634: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2635: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2636: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2637: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2638: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2639:
1.247 jufi 2640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2641: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2642: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2643: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2644:
1.199 pvalchev 2645: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2646: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2647: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2648: installation.
1.113 naddy 2649: <p>
1.47 louis 2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2652: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2653: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2654: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2655:
2656: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 2657: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2658: </ul>
1.57 louis 2659:
1.69 deraadt 2660: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2661: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2664: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2665: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2666: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2667:
2668: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2669: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2670: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2671: <p>
1.12 louis 2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2674: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2675: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2676: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2677:
2678: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2679: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2680: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2681: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2682: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2683: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2684: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2685: <p>
1.247 jufi 2686: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2687:
1.69 deraadt 2688: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2689: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2690:
1.247 jufi 2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2692: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2693: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2694:
2695: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2696: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2697: available."
1.113 naddy 2698: <p>
1.247 jufi 2699: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 2700:
1.69 deraadt 2701: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2702: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2703:
1.247 jufi 2704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 2705: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 2706: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 2707:
2708: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
2709: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
2710: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
2711: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
2712: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 2713: <p>
1.33 louis 2714:
1.247 jufi 2715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2716: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 2717: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 2718: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2719:
1.113 naddy 2720: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
2721: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 2722: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
2723: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
2724: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 2725: <p>
1.247 jufi 2726: </ul>
1.57 louis 2727:
1.69 deraadt 2728: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2729: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2730:
1.247 jufi 2731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2732: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 2733: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 2734: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2735:
2736: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
2737: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 2738: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2741: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
2742: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
2743: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 2744: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 2745:
2746: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 2747: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2750: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2751:
1.113 naddy 2752: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 2753:
1.247 jufi 2754: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 2755: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
2756: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 2757: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 2758:
2759: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 2760: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 2761: </ul>
1.23 louis 2762:
1.69 deraadt 2763: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2764: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2765:
1.247 jufi 2766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2767: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 2768: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2769:
2770: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
2771: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 2772: <p>
1.2 deraadt 2773:
1.247 jufi 2774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2775: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 2776: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2777: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2778:
2779: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
2780: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 2781: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 2782: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2783: </ul>
1.57 louis 2784:
1.69 deraadt 2785: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2786: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2787:
1.247 jufi 2788: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 2789: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
2790: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 2791: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 2792:
2793: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
2794: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
2795: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
2796: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2797: <p>
1.15 louis 2798:
1.247 jufi 2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2800: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
2801: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 2802: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2803:
2804: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
2805: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
2806: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
2807: columns."
1.113 naddy 2808: <p>
1.247 jufi 2809: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2810:
1.69 deraadt 2811: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2812: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2815: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 2816: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2817: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2818:
2819: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 2820: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 2821:
1.113 naddy 2822: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2823: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 2824: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2825:
2826: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
2827: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 2828: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 2829: </ul>
1.57 louis 2830:
1.69 deraadt 2831: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2832: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2833:
1.113 naddy 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2835: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 2836: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2837: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2838:
1.222 miod 2839: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 2840: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2841: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2842: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2843: <p>
1.247 jufi 2844: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2845:
1.69 deraadt 2846: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2847: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2850: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2851: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2852:
1.69 deraadt 2853: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2854: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2855: <p>
1.247 jufi 2856: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2857:
1.69 deraadt 2858: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2859: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2862: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2863: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2864: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2865:
2866: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2867: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2868: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 2871: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2872: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2873: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2874: <p>
1.247 jufi 2875: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 2876:
1.69 deraadt 2877: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2878: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2881: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2882: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2883: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2884: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2885: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2886:
2887: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2888: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2889: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2890: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2891: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2892: <p>
1.247 jufi 2893: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 2894:
2895: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 2896: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2897:
1.247 jufi 2898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2899: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2900: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2901:
1.69 deraadt 2902: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2903: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2904: <p>
1.112 naddy 2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: </ul>
1.113 naddy 2907: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2908:
1.113 naddy 2909: <hr>
2910: <a name=se></a>
1.247 jufi 2911: <h3><font color="#e00000">Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2912:
1.200 niklas 2913: <h2>June, 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=010613-CS3">
2918: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2919:
2920: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2921: <p>
2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2924:
2925: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2926:
1.247 jufi 2927: <ul>
2928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2929: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2930: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2931:
2932: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2933: <p>
2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2936: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2937: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2938:
2939: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2940: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2941: <p>
2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2944:
2945: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2946:
1.247 jufi 2947: <ul>
2948: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.200 niklas 2949: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2950: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2951:
2952: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2953: <p>
2954:
1.247 jufi 2955: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2956:
1.102 niklas 2957: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2958:
1.247 jufi 2959: <ul>
2960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.103 niklas 2961: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2962: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2963:
2964: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2965: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2966: <p>
1.102 niklas 2967:
1.247 jufi 2968: </ul>
1.102 niklas 2969:
1.84 niklas 2970: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2971:
1.247 jufi 2972: <ul>
2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.84 niklas 2974: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2975: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2976:
2977: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2978: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2979: <p>
1.84 niklas 2980:
1.247 jufi 2981: </ul>
1.84 niklas 2982:
1.69 deraadt 2983: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2984:
1.247 jufi 2985: <ul>
2986: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2987: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2988: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2989:
1.222 miod 2990: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
1.1 deraadt 2991: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2992: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2993: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2994:
1.247 jufi 2995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2996: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2997: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2998: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2999: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3000:
1.20 louis 3001: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3002: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 3003: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3004: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 3005: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3006:
1.247 jufi 3007: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3008:
1.113 naddy 3009: <hr>
1.202 jufi 3010: <a name=fi></a>
1.247 jufi 3011: <h3><font color="#e00000">Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
1.202 jufi 3012:
3013:
3014: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3015: <ul>
1.202 jufi 3016:
1.247 jufi 3017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.202 jufi 3018: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
3019: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
3020:
3021: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
3022: will be removed from OpenBSD.
1.247 jufi 3023: </ul>
1.202 jufi 3024:
3025: <hr>
1.113 naddy 3026: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 3027:
1.247 jufi 3028: <h3><font color="#e00000">Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 3029:
3030:
1.170 louis 3031: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3032: <ul>
1.170 louis 3033:
1.247 jufi 3034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.170 louis 3035: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
3036: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
3037: </strong></font><br>
3038:
3039: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
3040: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
3041: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
3042: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
3043: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
3044: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 3045: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.170 louis 3046: <p>
1.247 jufi 3047: </ul>
1.170 louis 3048:
1.69 deraadt 3049: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3050: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3051:
1.247 jufi 3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.135 ericj 3053: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 3054: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 3055: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 3056:
3057: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3058: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3059: translating and reprinting articles from
3060: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 3061: <p>
1.247 jufi 3062: </ul>
1.20 louis 3063:
1.113 naddy 3064: <hr>
3065: <a name=de></a>
1.247 jufi 3066: <h3><font color="#e00000">Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
1.50 louis 3067:
1.246 jufi 3068: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 3069: <ul>
3070: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 3071: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
3072: December 04, 2002
3073: </strong></font><br>
3074: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
3075: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
3076: <p>
1.247 jufi 3077: </ul>
1.246 jufi 3078:
1.151 louis 3079: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3080: <ul>
1.151 louis 3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.151 louis 3083: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
3084: </strong></font><br>
3085:
3086: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
3087: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
3088: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
3089: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
3090: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
3091: <p>
1.247 jufi 3092: </ul>
1.151 louis 3093:
1.72 louis 3094: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 3095: <ul>
1.72 louis 3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.109 reinhard 3098: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 3099: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 3100: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 3101:
1.101 jufi 3102: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 3103: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
3104: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 3105: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 3106: Giving way to
3107: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
3108: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
3109: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
3110: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 3111: <p>
1.247 jufi 3112: </ul>
1.72 louis 3113:
1.69 deraadt 3114: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3115: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3116:
1.247 jufi 3117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3118: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 3119: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 3120: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 3121:
3122: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3123: <p>
1.247 jufi 3124: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3125:
1.50 louis 3126:
1.113 naddy 3127: <hr>
3128: <a name=ru></a>
1.247 jufi 3129: <h3><font color="#e00000">Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
1.56 deraadt 3130:
1.69 deraadt 3131: <h2>January, 2000</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>January 2000 issue</u>
1.113 naddy 3137: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 3138:
3139: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.247 jufi 3141: </ul>
1.62 form 3142:
1.69 deraadt 3143: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3144: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3145:
1.247 jufi 3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.98 deraadt 3147: Byte Magazine, Russia,
1.236 horacio 3148: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
1.113 naddy 3149: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 3150:
1.59 form 3151: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 3152: <p>
1.112 naddy 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: </ul>
1.112 naddy 3155:
1.113 naddy 3156: <hr>
3157: <a name=pl></a>
1.247 jufi 3158: <h3><font color="#e00000">Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
3159: <ul>
1.56 deraadt 3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.129 louis 3162: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
3163: Radio, August 2, 2000
3164: </strong></font><br>
3165:
3166: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 3167: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 3168: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
3169: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
3170: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
3171: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
3172: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
3173: <p>
3174:
1.247 jufi 3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 3176: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3177: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
3178: January 2000
1.113 naddy 3179: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 3180:
3181: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3182: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3183: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3184: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3185: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3186: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.247 jufi 3187: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
1.113 naddy 3188: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 3189: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3190: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3191: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3192: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 3193: <p>
1.247 jufi 3194: </ul>
1.56 deraadt 3195:
1.113 naddy 3196: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3197: <a name=es></a>
1.247 jufi 3198: <h3><font color="#e00000">Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
1.216 horacio 3199:
3200: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 3201: <ul>
1.216 horacio 3202:
1.247 jufi 3203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.216 horacio 3204: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
3205: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
3206: </strong></font><br>
3207:
3208: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 3209: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 3210: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
3211: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
3212: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
3213: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1.247 jufi 3214: A
1.216 horacio 3215: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
3216: <p>
1.247 jufi 3217: </ul>
1.216 horacio 3218:
1.252 miod 3219: <hr>
3220: <a name=fr></a>
3221: <h3><font color="#e00000">French press coverage (in French)</font></h3><p>
3222:
3223: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
3224: <ul>
3225:
3226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3227: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">OpenBSD ne
3228: désarme pas</a>, Libroscope interview, Marc 19, 2003
3229: </strong></font><br>
3230:
3231: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
3232: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
3233: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
3234: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
3235: <p>
3236: </ul>
3237:
1.216 horacio 3238:
3239: <hr>
3240: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3241: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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