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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.16 louis 19:
1.253 ian 20: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
21: <ul>
1.255 ian 22:
1.260 ian 23: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 24: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
25: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
26: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
27: </strong></font></br>
28: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
29: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
30: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
31: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
32: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
33: Can also be found online at:
34: <ul>
35: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
36: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
37: The Age</a>,
38: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements.
39: </strong></font>
40: </ul>
41: <p>
42:
43: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 44: <a href=http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1>
1.302 ! jose 45: [TURKISH] DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.299 deraadt 46: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003
47: </strong></font><br>
48:
49: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
50: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the benefits
51: of the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
52: views from the interview and his plans about the approching hackathon with
53: out fund. Also covers OpenBSD project's contributions to the operating
54: system security concept and proactive techiques.
55: <p>
56:
57: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.300 jose 58: <a href=http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5670920.htm">
59: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
60: Miami Herald, April 19, 2003.
61: </strong></font></br>
62: Another Associated Press story about the DARPA, UPenn and POSSE situation
63: with OpenBSD. No new information over the previous AP stories.
64: <p>
65:
66: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 67: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
68: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
69: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
70: </strong></font></br>
71: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
72: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
73: at UPenn and DARPA.
74: <p>
75:
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 77: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-18.04.03-002/">Aus der Traum: Keine US-Gelder für OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
78: April 18, 2003
79: </strong></font><br>
80: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 84: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
85: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
86: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
87: </strong></font></br>
88: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
89: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
90: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 94: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
95: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 96: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 97: </strong></font><br>
98: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
99: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
100: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 101: American century.
1.267 deraadt 102: <p>
103:
104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 105: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
106: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 107: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 108: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 109: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
110: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
111: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
112: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
113: Can also be found online at:
114: <ul>
115: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
116: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 117: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.267 deraadt 118: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 119: <p>
120:
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.262 beck 122: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
123: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 124: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 125: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 126: </strong></font><br>
127: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 128: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
129: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
130: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
131: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 132:
133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
134: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
135: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
136: New York Times.
137: </strong></font>(free registration required)
138:
1.273 deraadt 139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
140: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 141: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 142: ABC News.
143: </strong></font>
144:
145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
146: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
147: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 148: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 149: </strong></font>
150:
151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
152: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 153: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 154: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 155: </strong></font>
156:
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 158: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
159: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 160: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 161: </strong></font>
162:
163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 164: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 165: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 166: Times Daily, AL.
167: </strong></font>
168:
169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
170: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
171: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
172: Boston.com, MA.
173: </strong></font>
174:
175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
176: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 177: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 178: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
179: </strong></font>
180:
181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 182: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
183: [Article was pulled]</a>
184: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 185: </strong></font>
186:
187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
188: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
189: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
190: Infoshop News.
191: </strong></font>
192:
193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
194: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
195: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
196: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
197: </strong></font>
198:
199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
200: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
201: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
202: NEPA News, PA.
203: </strong></font>
204:
205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
206: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
207: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
208: Wired News.
209: </strong></font>
210:
1.271 deraadt 211: </ul>
212: <p>
1.272 deraadt 213: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
214: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 215: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
216: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
217: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
218: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
219: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
220: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
221: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
222: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
223: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
224: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 225: <p>
226: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.285 jsyn 229: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
230: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
231: Indianapolis Star, IN.
232: </strong></font>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 235: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
236: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
237: Miami Herald, FL.
238: </strong></font>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 241: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 242: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
243: </strong></font>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
246: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 247: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 248: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 249: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 250:
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
252: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
253: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
254: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
255: ABC News.
256: </strong></font>
257:
1.276 deraadt 258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
260: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.284 jsyn 261: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 262: </strong></font>
263:
1.286 dhartmei 264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
266: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
267: Wilmington Star, NC.
268: </strong></font>
269:
1.300 jose 270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
271: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
272: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
273: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
274: </strong></font>
275:
1.263 deraadt 276: </ul>
1.262 beck 277: <p>
278:
279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 280: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
281: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 282: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 283: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 284: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 285: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
286: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
287: <p>
288:
289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 290: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
291: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
292: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
293: </strong></font></br>
294: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
295: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
296: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
297: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
298: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
299: and simply restates other press reports.
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 303: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
304: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
305: OS News, April 18, 2003.
306: </strong></font><br>
307: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
308: <p>
309:
310: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 311: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
312: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 313: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 314: </strong></font><br>
315: Another report on the DARPA funding.
316: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
317: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
318: <p>
319:
320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 321: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
322: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 323: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 324: </strong></font><br>
325: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
326: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
327: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
328: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
329: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
330: Goes on to say:
331: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
332: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
333: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
334: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 335: This article is also found online at:
336: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
338: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
339: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
340: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
341: </strong></font></br>
342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
343: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
344: ZDnet</a>,
345: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
346: </strong></font></br>
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
348: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
349: ZDnet Australia</a>,
350: US Defence pulls open source funding.
351: </strong></font></br>
1.279 deraadt 352: </ul>
1.260 ian 353: <p>
1.279 deraadt 354:
1.260 ian 355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
356: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
357: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 358: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 359: </strong></font><br>
1.290 jose 360: SlashDot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 361: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
362: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
363: without notice or justification.
364: <p>
365:
366: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
367: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
368: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 369: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 370: </strong></font><br>
371: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
372: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
373: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
374: effective today, without any warning..."
375: <p>
1.257 ian 376:
377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 378: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
379: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 380: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 381: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 382: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
383: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
384: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
385: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
386: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 387: <p>
388:
389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 390: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
391: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 392: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 393: </strong></font><br>
394: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
395: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
396: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
397: quoting two of them:
398: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
399: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
400: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
401: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
402: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
403: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
404: <p>
405:
1.255 ian 406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 407: [DUTCH] <a href=http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776>
408: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>, Automatiserings Gids
409: Webeditie, April 14 2003
410: </strong></font><br>
411: Een beschrijving van drie nieuwe technieken in OpenBSD om bufferoverflows
412: tegen te gaan.
413: <p>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
416: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-13.04.03-000/">OpenBSD mit neuem Sicherheitskozept</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
417: April 13, 2003
418: </strong></font><br>
419: New security concepts in OpenBSD
420: <p>
421:
422: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 423: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
424: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 425: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 426: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 427: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 428: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
429: security experts for more than three decades."
430: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
431: <p>
1.261 ian 432:
1.254 drahn 433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 434: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
435: April 8, 2003
436: </strong></font><br>
437: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
438: <p>
439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 441: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
442: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 443: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 444: </strong></font><br>
445: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
446: from US DARPA.
447: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
448: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
449: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
450: the BSD license.
451: <p>
452: </ul>
453:
1.251 ian 454: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
455: <ul>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 458: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
459: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
460: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
461: </strong></font><br>
462:
463: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
464: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
465: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
466: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
467: <p>
468:
469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 470: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
471: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 472: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 473: </strong></font><br>
474: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
475: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
476: Mentions
477: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
478: and
479: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
480: programs.
481: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 482: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 483: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
484: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
485: <p>
1.260 ian 486:
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
488: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
489: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
490: </strong></font><br>
491: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
492: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
493: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
494: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
495: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
496: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
497: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
498: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
499: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
500: put into service."
501: <p>
502: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
503: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
504: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
505: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
506: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
507: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
508: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
509: computers with security features."
510: <p>
1.251 ian 511: </ul>
512:
1.249 jufi 513: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
514: <ul>
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
516: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
517: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 518: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 519: </strong></font><br>
520: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
521: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 522: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 523: <p>
524: </ul>
525:
1.246 jufi 526: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 527: <ul>
1.246 jufi 528:
1.247 jufi 529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 530: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 531: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
532: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 533: </strong></font><br>
534: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
535: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
536: <p>
537:
1.247 jufi 538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 539: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
540: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
541: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
542: </strong></font><br>
543: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
544: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
545: <p>
546:
547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 548: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 549: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
550: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 551: </strong></font><br>
552: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
553: in their annual OpenHack security test.
554: <p>
1.247 jufi 555: </ul>
1.246 jufi 556:
1.244 jufi 557: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 558: <ul>
1.246 jufi 559:
1.247 jufi 560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 561: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
562: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
563: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 564: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 565: </strong></font><br>
566: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
567: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
568: md5 digests.
569: <p>
570:
1.247 jufi 571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 572: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 573: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
574: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 575: </strong></font><br>
576: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
577: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
578: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
579: right the first time."
580: <p>
1.247 jufi 581: </ul>
1.244 jufi 582:
583:
584: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 585: <ul>
1.244 jufi 586:
1.247 jufi 587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 588: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 589: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
590: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 591: </strong></font><br>
592: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
593: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
594: part 6</a>.
595: <p>
596:
1.247 jufi 597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 598: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 599: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
600: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 601: </strong></font><br>
602: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
603: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
604: <p>
1.301 jose 605:
606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
607: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
608: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
609: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
610: </strong></font><br>
611:
612: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
613: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
614: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
615: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
616: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
617: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
618: <i>Here's the
619: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
620: <p>
1.247 jufi 621: </ul>
1.242 jufi 622:
623: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 624: <ul>
1.242 jufi 625:
1.247 jufi 626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 627: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 628: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
629: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 630: </strong></font><br>
631: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
632: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
633: <p>
634:
1.247 jufi 635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 636: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 637: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
638: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 639: </strong></font><br>
640: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
641: this time using pf.
642: <p>
1.247 jufi 643: </ul>
1.242 jufi 644:
645: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 646: <ul>
1.242 jufi 647:
1.247 jufi 648: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 649: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 650: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
651: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 652: </strong></font><br>
653: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
654: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
655: their rotation.
656: <p>
657:
1.247 jufi 658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 659: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 660: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
661: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 662: </strong></font><br>
663: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
664: <p>
1.247 jufi 665: </ul>
1.242 jufi 666:
1.239 jufi 667: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 668: <ul>
1.239 jufi 669:
1.247 jufi 670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 671: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 672: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
673: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 674: </strong></font><br>
675: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
676: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
677: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
678: <p>
679:
1.247 jufi 680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 681: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 682: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
683: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 684: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 685: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
686: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
687: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 688: <p>
1.247 jufi 689: </ul>
1.239 jufi 690:
1.235 lebel 691: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 692: <ul>
1.235 lebel 693:
1.239 jufi 694:
1.247 jufi 695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 696: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 697: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
698: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 699: </strong></font><br>
700: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
701: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
702: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
703: <p>
1.301 jose 704:
1.247 jufi 705: </ul>
1.235 lebel 706:
1.228 horacio 707: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 708: <ul>
1.228 horacio 709:
1.247 jufi 710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 711: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 712: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
713: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 714: </strong></font><br>
715: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
716: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
717: <p>
718:
1.247 jufi 719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 720: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 721: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
722: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 723: </strong></font><br>
724: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
725: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
726: <p>
727:
1.247 jufi 728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 729: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 730: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
731: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 732: </strong></font><br>
733: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
734: on the desktop of his parents.
735: <p>
736:
1.247 jufi 737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 738: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 739: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
740: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 741: </strong></font><br>
742: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
743: using IPFilter.
744:
745: <p>
746:
1.247 jufi 747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 748: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 749: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
750: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 751: </strong></font><br>
752: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
753: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
754: perspectives of the four OS.
755: <br>
756: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 757: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 758: <p>
759:
1.247 jufi 760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 761: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
762: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 763: software and security</a>,
764: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 765: </strong></font><br>
766:
767: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
768: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
769: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
770: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
771: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
772: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
773: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
774: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
775: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
776: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
777: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
778: security conscious team beyond doubt.
779: <p>
1.247 jufi 780: </ul>
1.228 horacio 781:
1.225 horacio 782: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 783: <ul>
1.225 horacio 784:
1.247 jufi 785: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 786: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
787: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 788: Interview</a>,
789: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 790: </strong></font><br>
791:
792: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
793: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
794: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 795: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 796: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
797: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
798: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
799: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
800: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 801: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 802: of choice.
803: <p>
1.247 jufi 804: </ul>
1.225 horacio 805:
806: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 807: <ul>
1.225 horacio 808:
1.247 jufi 809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 810: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 811: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
812: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 813: </strong></font><br>
814:
815: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
816: <p>
817:
1.247 jufi 818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 819: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 820: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
821: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 822: </strong></font><br>
823:
824: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
825: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
826: <p>
1.247 jufi 827: </ul>
1.225 horacio 828:
1.218 horacio 829: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 830: <ul>
1.218 horacio 831:
1.247 jufi 832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 833: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 834: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
835: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 836: </strong></font><br>
837:
838: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
839: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
840: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
841: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
842: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
843: subjects. Worth a read.
844: <p>
845:
846:
1.247 jufi 847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 848: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 849: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
850: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 851: </strong></font><br>
852:
853: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
854: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
855: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
856: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
857: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
858: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
859: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
860: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
861: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 862: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 863: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
864: on other operating systems.<br>
865: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
866: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
867: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
868: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
869: <p>
870:
1.247 jufi 871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 872: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 873: Operating System 2010</a>,
874: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 875: </strong></font><br>
876:
877: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
878: covering the level of software integration into the core
879: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
880: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
881: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
882: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
883: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
884: <p>
885:
1.247 jufi 886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 887: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 888: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
889: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 890: </strong></font><br>
891:
892: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
893: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
894: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
895: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
896: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
897: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
898: <p>
1.247 jufi 899: </ul>
1.221 horacio 900:
1.210 jufi 901: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 902: <ul>
1.215 horacio 903:
1.247 jufi 904: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 905: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 906: Already a Contender</a>,
907: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 908: </strong></font><br>
909:
910: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
911: source software in response to an article which claimed that
912: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
913: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
914: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
915: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
916: <p>
917:
1.247 jufi 918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 919: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 920: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
921: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 922: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 923:
1.224 horacio 924: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
925: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
926: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
927: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
928: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
929: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 930: <p>
1.247 jufi 931: </ul>
1.215 horacio 932:
933: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 934: <ul>
1.215 horacio 935:
1.247 jufi 936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 937: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
938: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 939: Division</a>,
940: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 941: </strong></font><br>
942:
943: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
944: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 945: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 946: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
947: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
948: investment</em>.<br>
949: The implementation details can be seen on their
950: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
951: <p>
952:
1.247 jufi 953: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 954: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
955: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
956: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
957: </strong></font><br>
958:
959: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
960: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
961: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
962: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
963: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
964: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
965: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
966: <p>
967:
968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 969: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 970: Thinking about Security</a>,
971: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 972: </strong></font><br>
973:
974: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
975: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
976: security and says that even secured operating systems running
977: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
978: to time.<br>
979: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
980: system and just the most secure system.
981: <p>
982:
1.247 jufi 983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 984: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 985: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
986: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 987: </strong></font><br>
988:
989: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
990: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
991: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
992: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
993: choice:<br>
994: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
995: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
996: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
997: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
998: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
999: network security devices and as such must be well
1000: armored."</em><br>
1001: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1002: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1003: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1004: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1005: <br>
1006: Bravo!
1007: <p>
1.247 jufi 1008: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1009:
1.207 ian 1010: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1011: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1012:
1.247 jufi 1013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1014: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1015: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1016: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1017:
1.207 ian 1018: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1019: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1020: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1021: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1022: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1023: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1024: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1025: <p>
1.247 jufi 1026: </ul>
1.207 ian 1027:
1.194 jufi 1028: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1029: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1030:
1.247 jufi 1031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1032: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1033: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1034: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1035: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1036:
1.240 miod 1037: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1038: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1039: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1040: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1041: <p>
1042:
1.247 jufi 1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1044: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1045: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1046: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1047:
1048: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1049: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1050: <p>
1051:
1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1053: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1054: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1055: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1056:
1057: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1058: <p>
1059:
1060: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1061: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1062: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1063: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1064: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1065:
1.240 miod 1066: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1067: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1068: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1069: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1070: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1071: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1072: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1073: <br>
1074: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1075: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1076: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1077: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1078: <p>
1079:
1.247 jufi 1080: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1081: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1082: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1083: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1084: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1085:
1.194 jufi 1086: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1087: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1088: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1089: <br>
1090: The new
1091: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1092: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1093: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1094: <p>
1.247 jufi 1095: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1096:
1.190 horacio 1097: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1098: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1099:
1.247 jufi 1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1101:
1102: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1103: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1104:
1.301 jose 1105:
1.191 jufi 1106: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1107: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1108:
1109: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1110: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1111:
1.212 horacio 1112: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1113: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1114: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1115:
1.211 horacio 1116: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1117: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1118: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1119:
1.247 jufi 1120: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1121: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1122:
1.247 jufi 1123: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1124: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1125:
1.212 horacio 1126: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1127: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1128: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1129:
1130: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1131: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1132:
1133: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1134: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1135:
1.301 jose 1136: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1137: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1138:
1.191 jufi 1139: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1140: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1141:
1142: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1143: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1144:
1.192 jufi 1145: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1146: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1147: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1148:
1.193 deraadt 1149: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1150: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1151: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1152:
1.247 jufi 1153: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1154: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1155:
1.247 jufi 1156: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1157: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1158: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1159:
1.213 horacio 1160: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1161: 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 1162: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1163:
1.190 horacio 1164: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1165: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1166: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1167: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1168: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1169: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1170: <p>
1.190 horacio 1171:
1.247 jufi 1172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1173: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1174: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1175: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1176: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1177:
1.195 jufi 1178: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1179: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1180: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1181: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1182: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1183: <p>
1184:
1.247 jufi 1185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1186: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1187: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1188: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1189: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1190:
1.191 jufi 1191: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1192: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1193: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1194: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1195: <p>
1196:
1197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1198: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1199: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1200: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1201:
1202: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1203: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1204: <p>
1.247 jufi 1205: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1206:
1.191 jufi 1207:
1.186 jufi 1208: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1209: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1210:
1.247 jufi 1211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1212: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1213: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1214: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1215: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1216:
1.188 jufi 1217: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1218: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1219: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1220: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1221: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1222: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1223: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1224: <p>
1225:
1.301 jose 1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1227: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1228: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1229: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1230:
1231: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1232: <p>
1.191 jufi 1233:
1.247 jufi 1234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1235: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1236: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1237: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1238: </strong></font><br>
1239:
1240: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1241: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1242: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1243: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1244: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1245: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1246: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1247: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1248: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1249: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1250: familiar?
1251: <p>
1.247 jufi 1252: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1253:
1.178 louis 1254: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1255: <ul>
1.178 louis 1256:
1.247 jufi 1257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1258: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1259: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1260: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1261: </strong></font><br>
1262:
1263: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1264: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1265: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1266: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1267: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1268: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1269: <p>
1270:
1.247 jufi 1271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1272: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1273: Open source under the hood</a>,
1274: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1275: </strong></font><br>
1276:
1277: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1278: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1279: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1280: <p>
1281:
1.247 jufi 1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1283: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1284: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1285: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1286: </strong></font><br>
1287:
1288: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1289: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1290: <p>
1.247 jufi 1291: </ul>
1.179 louis 1292:
1.174 louis 1293:
1.175 louis 1294: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1295: <ul>
1.175 louis 1296:
1.247 jufi 1297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1298: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1299: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1300: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1301: </strong></font><br>
1302:
1303: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1304: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1305: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1306: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1307: <p>
1308:
1.247 jufi 1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1310: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1311: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1312: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1313: </strong></font><br>
1314:
1315: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1316: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1317: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1318: <p>
1.247 jufi 1319: </ul>
1.175 louis 1320:
1.176 louis 1321:
1.172 mickey 1322: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1323: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1324:
1.247 jufi 1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1326: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1327: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1328: </strong></font><br>
1329:
1330: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1331: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1332: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1333: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1334: <p>
1335:
1.247 jufi 1336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1337: <a
1.269 deraadt 1338: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1339: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1340: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1341: </strong></font><br>
1342:
1343: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1344: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1345: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1346: <p>
1347:
1.247 jufi 1348: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1349: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1350: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1351: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1352: </strong></font><br>
1353:
1354: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1355: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1356: <p>
1357:
1.247 jufi 1358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1359: <a
1.269 deraadt 1360: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1361: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1362: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1363: </strong></font><br>
1364:
1365: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1366: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1367: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1368: our own Theo de Raadt.
1369: <p>
1370:
1.247 jufi 1371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1372: <a
1.269 deraadt 1373: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1374: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1375: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1376: </strong></font><br>
1377:
1378: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1379: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1380: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1381: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1382: shut down.]
1383: <p>
1384:
1.247 jufi 1385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1386: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1387: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1388: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1389: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1390: </strong></font><br>
1391:
1392: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1393: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1394: <p>
1.247 jufi 1395: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1396:
1.161 louis 1397: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1398: <ul>
1.161 louis 1399:
1.247 jufi 1400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1401: <a
1.269 deraadt 1402: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1403: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1404: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1405: </strong></font><br>
1406:
1407: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1408: by John Wolley
1409: <p>
1410:
1.247 jufi 1411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1412: <a
1.269 deraadt 1413: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1414: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1415: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1416: </strong></font><br>
1417:
1418: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1419: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1420: OpenBSD).
1421: <p>
1422:
1.247 jufi 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1424: <a
1.247 jufi 1425: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1426: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1427: </strong></font><br>
1428:
1429: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1430: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1431: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1432: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1433: and hindsight.
1434: <p>
1435:
1.247 jufi 1436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1437: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1438: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1439: </strong></font><br>
1440:
1441: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1442: <p>
1443:
1.247 jufi 1444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1445: <a
1.168 provos 1446: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1447: December 7, 2000
1448: </strong></font><br>
1449:
1450: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1451: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1452: us explain.
1453: <p>
1454:
1.247 jufi 1455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1456: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1457: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1458: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1459: December 6, 2000
1460: </strong></font><br>
1461:
1462: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1463: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1464: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.247 jufi 1467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1468: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1469: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1470: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1471: </strong></font><br>
1472:
1473: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1474: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1475: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1476: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1477: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1478: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1479: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1480: <p>
1481:
1482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1483: <a
1.226 horacio 1484: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1485: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1486: </strong></font><br>
1487:
1488: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1489: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1490: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1491: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1492: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1493: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1494: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1495: <p>
1.162 millert 1496:
1.247 jufi 1497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1498: <a
1.161 louis 1499: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1500: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1501: </strong></font><br>
1502:
1503: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1504: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1505: <p>
1506:
1.247 jufi 1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1508: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1509: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1510: </strong></font><br>
1511:
1512: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1513: <p>
1514:
1515:
1.247 jufi 1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1517: <a
1.226 horacio 1518: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1519: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1520: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1521: </strong></font><br>
1522:
1523: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1524: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1525: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1526: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1527: <p>
1.247 jufi 1528: </ul>
1.169 louis 1529:
1.158 louis 1530: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1531: <ul>
1.147 louis 1532:
1.247 jufi 1533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1534: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1535: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1536: </strong></font><br>
1537:
1538: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1539: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1540: <p>
1541:
1.247 jufi 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1543: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1544: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1545: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1546: </strong></font><br>
1547: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1548: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1549: <p>
1550:
1.247 jufi 1551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1552: <a
1553: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1554: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1555: </strong></font><br>
1556:
1557: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1558: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1559: <p>
1560:
1.247 jufi 1561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1562: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1563: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1564: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1565:
1.213 horacio 1566: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1567: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1568: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1569: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1570: <p>
1.215 horacio 1571:
1.247 jufi 1572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1573: <a
1574: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1575: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1576: </strong></font><br>
1577:
1578: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1579: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1580: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1581: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1582: much of the attitude too).
1583: <p>
1.161 louis 1584:
1.247 jufi 1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1586: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1587: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1588: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1589:
1.157 louis 1590: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1591: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1592: <p>
1.247 jufi 1593: </ul>
1.157 louis 1594:
1595: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1596: <ul>
1.157 louis 1597:
1.247 jufi 1598: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1599: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1600: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1601: </strong></font><br>
1602:
1603: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1604: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1605: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1606: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1607: <p>
1608:
1.247 jufi 1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1610: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1611: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1612: </strong></font><br>
1613:
1614: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1615: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1616: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1617: it because they love coding...
1618: <p>
1619:
1.247 jufi 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1621: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1622: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1623: </strong></font><br>
1624:
1625: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1626: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1627: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1628: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1629: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1630: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1631: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1632: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1633: <p>
1634:
1.247 jufi 1635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1636: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1637: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1638: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1639: </strong></font><br>
1640:
1641: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1642: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1643: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1644: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1645: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1646: the pizza.
1647: <p>
1648:
1.247 jufi 1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1650: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1651: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1652: </strong></font><br>
1653:
1654: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1655: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1656: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1657: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1658: problems.
1659: <p>
1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1662: <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 1663: </strong></font><br>
1664:
1.222 miod 1665: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1666: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1667: - whether they like it or not.
1668: <p>
1669:
1.247 jufi 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1671: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1672: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1673: </strong></font><br>
1674:
1675: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1676: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1677: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1678: <p>
1.148 aaron 1679:
1.247 jufi 1680: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1681: <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 1682: </strong></font><br>
1683:
1684: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1685: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1686: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1687: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1688: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1689: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1690: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1691: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1692: <p>
1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1695: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1696: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698:
1699: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1700: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1701: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1702: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1703: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1704: <p>
1.247 jufi 1705: </ul>
1.147 louis 1706:
1.138 louis 1707: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1708: <ul>
1.138 louis 1709:
1.247 jufi 1710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1711: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1712: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1713: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1714: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1715: </strong></font><br>
1716:
1.227 horacio 1717: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1718: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1719: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1720: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1721: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1722: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1723: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1724: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1725: <p>
1726:
1.247 jufi 1727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1728: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1729: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1730: </strong></font><br>
1731:
1732: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1733: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1734: groups, and even Linux.
1735: <p>
1736:
1.247 jufi 1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1738: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1739: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1740: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1741: </strong></font><br>
1742:
1743: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1744: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1745: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1746: library after installing the OS.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1750: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1751: Sys Admin, September 2000
1752: </strong></font><br>
1753:
1754: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1755: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1756: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1757: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1758: (<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>,
1759: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1760: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1761: <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 1762: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1763: out of the system.
1764: <p>
1765:
1.247 jufi 1766: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1767: <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
1768: </strong></font><br>
1769:
1770: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1771: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1772: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1773: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1774: the IP filtering and address translation.
1775: <p>
1.301 jose 1776:
1777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1778: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1779: </strong></font><br>
1780:
1781: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1782: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1783: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1784: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1785: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1786: <p>
1.247 jufi 1787: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1788:
1.131 louis 1789: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1790: <ul>
1.131 louis 1791:
1.247 jufi 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1793: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1794: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1795: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797:
1798: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1799: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1800: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1801: <p>
1802:
1.247 jufi 1803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1804: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1805: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1806: </strong></font><br>
1807:
1808: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1809: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1810: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1811: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1812: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1813: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1814: note of"</i>.
1815: <p>
1816:
1.247 jufi 1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1818: <a
1.247 jufi 1819: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1820: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1821: </strong></font><br>
1822:
1823: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1824: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1825: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1826: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1827: <p>
1828:
1.247 jufi 1829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1830: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1831: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1832: </strong></font><br>
1833:
1834: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1835: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1836: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1837: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1838: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1839: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1840: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1841: <p>
1842:
1.247 jufi 1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1844: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1845: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1846: 2000
1847: </strong></font><br>
1848:
1849: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1850: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1851: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1852: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1853: against current industry practices.
1854: <p>
1855:
1.247 jufi 1856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1857: <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
1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1861: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1862: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1863: <p>
1864:
1.247 jufi 1865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1866: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1867: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1868: </strong></font><br>
1869:
1870: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1871: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1872: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1873: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1874: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1875: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1876: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1877: <p>
1878:
1.247 jufi 1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1880: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1881: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1885: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1886: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1887: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1888: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1889: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1890: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1891: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1892: <p>
1.247 jufi 1893: </ul>
1.131 louis 1894:
1.118 louis 1895: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1896: <ul>
1.118 louis 1897:
1.247 jufi 1898: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1899: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1900: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1901: </strong></font><br>
1902:
1903: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1904: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1905: about time. The article mentions that
1906: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1907: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1908: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1909: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1910: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1911: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1912: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1913: <p>
1914:
1.247 jufi 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1916: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1917: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1918: </strong></font><br>
1919:
1920: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1921: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1922: of OpenSSH.
1923: <p>
1924:
1.247 jufi 1925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1926: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1927: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1928: </strong></font><br>
1929:
1930: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1931: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1932: bridging.
1933: <p>
1934:
1.247 jufi 1935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1936: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1937: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1938: </strong></font><br>
1939:
1.121 deraadt 1940: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1941: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1942: <p>
1943:
1.247 jufi 1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1945: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1946: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1947: </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1950: <p>
1951:
1.247 jufi 1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1953: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1954: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1955: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1956: </strong></font><br>
1957:
1.120 deraadt 1958: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1959: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1960: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1961: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1962: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1963: <p>
1964:
1.247 jufi 1965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1966: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1967: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1968: </strong></font><br>
1969:
1.222 miod 1970: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1971: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1972: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1973: protocols and their quirks.
1974: <p>
1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1977: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
1978: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 1979: </strong></font><br>
1980:
1981: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
1982: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
1983: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 1984: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 1985: <p>
1986:
1.247 jufi 1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 1988: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
1989: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
1990: </strong></font><br>
1991:
1992: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
1993: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
1994: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
1995: <p>
1996:
1.247 jufi 1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 1998: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1999: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2000: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2001: </strong></font><br>
2002:
2003: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2004: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2005: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2006: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2007: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2008: <p>
1.247 jufi 2009: </ul>
1.118 louis 2010:
1.104 louis 2011: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2012: <ul>
1.104 louis 2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2015: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2016: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2017: </strong></font><br>
2018:
2019: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2020: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2021: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2022: be a bit dry.
2023: <p>
2024:
1.247 jufi 2025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2026: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2027: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2028: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2029: </strong></font><br>
2030: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2031: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2032: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2033: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2034: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2035: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2036: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2037: <p>
2038:
1.247 jufi 2039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2040: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2041: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2042: 2000
1.128 louis 2043: </strong></font><br>
2044:
2045: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2046: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2047: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2048: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2049: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2050: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2051: <p>
2052:
1.247 jufi 2053: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2054: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2055: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2056: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2057:
2058: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2059: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2060: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2061: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2062: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2063: <p>
1.110 louis 2064:
1.247 jufi 2065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2066: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2067: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2068: </strong></font><br>
2069:
2070: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2071: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2072: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2073: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2074: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2075: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2076: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2077: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2078: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2079: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2080: <p>
2081:
1.247 jufi 2082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2083: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2084: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2085:
2086: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2087: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2088: <p>
1.108 louis 2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2091: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2092: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2093: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2094:
2095: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2096: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2097: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2098: <p>
1.106 louis 2099:
1.247 jufi 2100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2101: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2102: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2103: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2104:
2105: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2106: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2107: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2108: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2109: <p>
1.107 louis 2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2112: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2113: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2114: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2115:
2116: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2117: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2118: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2119: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2120: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2121: <p>
1.105 louis 2122:
1.247 jufi 2123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2124: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2125: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2126: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2127:
1.113 naddy 2128: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2129: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2130: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2131: <p>
1.104 louis 2132:
1.247 jufi 2133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2134: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2135: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2136: </strong></font><br>
2137:
2138: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2139: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2140: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2141: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2142: <p>
1.301 jose 2143:
2144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2145: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2146: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2147: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2148:
2149: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2150: hardware-supported cryptography.
2151: <p>
1.247 jufi 2152: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2153:
1.85 louis 2154: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2155: <ul>
1.85 louis 2156:
1.247 jufi 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2158: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2159: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2160: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2161:
2162: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2163: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2164: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2165: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2166: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2167: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2168: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2169: <p>
1.99 louis 2170:
1.247 jufi 2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2172: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2173: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2174: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2175:
2176: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2177: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2178: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2179: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2180: <p>
1.100 louis 2181:
1.247 jufi 2182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2183: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2184: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2185: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2186:
2187: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2188: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2189: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2190: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2191: <p>
1.95 louis 2192:
1.247 jufi 2193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2194: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2195: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2196: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2197:
2198: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2199: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2200: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2201: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2202: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2203: <p>
1.92 louis 2204:
1.247 jufi 2205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2206: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2207: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2208: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2209:
2210: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2211: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2212: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2213: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2214: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2215: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2216: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2217: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2218: <p>
1.91 louis 2219:
1.247 jufi 2220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2221: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2222: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2223: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2224:
2225: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2226: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2227: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2228: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2229: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2230: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2231: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2232: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2233: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2234: <p>
1.90 louis 2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2237: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2238: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2239: </strong></font><br>
2240: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2241: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2242: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2243: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2244: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2245: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2246: <p>
2247:
1.247 jufi 2248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2249: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2250: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2251: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2252:
1.113 naddy 2253: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2254: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2255: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2256: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2257: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2258: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2259: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2260: <p>
1.87 louis 2261:
1.247 jufi 2262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2263: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2264: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2265: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2266:
2267: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2268: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2269: <p>
1.85 louis 2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2272: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2273: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2274: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2275:
2276: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2277: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2278: <p>
2279:
2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2281: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2282: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2283: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2284:
2285: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2286: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2287: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2288: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2289: <p>
1.89 louis 2290:
1.247 jufi 2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2292: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2293: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2294: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2295:
2296: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2297: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2298: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2299: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2300: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2301: </ul>
1.85 louis 2302:
1.78 deraadt 2303: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2304: <ul>
1.74 louis 2305:
1.247 jufi 2306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2307: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2308: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2309: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2310: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2311:
2312: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2313: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2314: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2315: <p>
1.83 louis 2316:
1.247 jufi 2317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2318: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2319: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2320: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2321:
2322: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2323: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2324: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2325: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2326: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2327: <p>
1.93 louis 2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2330: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2331: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2332: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2333: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2334:
1.83 louis 2335: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2336: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2337: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2338: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2339: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2340: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2341: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2342: <p>
1.82 aaron 2343:
1.247 jufi 2344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2345: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2346: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2347: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2348:
1.83 louis 2349: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2350: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2351: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2352: <p>
1.80 louis 2353:
1.247 jufi 2354: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2355: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2356: Bad Press</a>,
2357: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2358: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2359:
2360: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2361: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2362: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2363: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2364: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2365: <p>
1.247 jufi 2366: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2367:
2368: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2369: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2372: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2373: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2374: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2375: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2376:
2377: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2378: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2379: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2380: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2381: <p>
1.74 louis 2382:
1.247 jufi 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2384: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2385: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2386: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2387:
1.219 horacio 2388: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2389: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2390: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2391: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2392: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2393: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2394: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2395: <p>
1.88 louis 2396:
1.247 jufi 2397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2398: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2399: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2400: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2401:
2402: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2403: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2404: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2405: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2406: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2407: <p>
1.81 louis 2408:
1.247 jufi 2409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2410: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2411: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2412: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2413:
2414: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2415: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2416: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2417: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2418: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2419: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2420: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2421: <p>
1.90 louis 2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2424: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2425: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2426: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2427:
2428: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2429: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2430: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2431: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2432: <p>
1.247 jufi 2433: </ul>
1.71 louis 2434:
1.69 deraadt 2435: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2436: <ul>
1.70 louis 2437:
1.247 jufi 2438: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2439: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2440: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2441: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2442:
2443: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2444: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2445: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2446: <p>
1.70 louis 2447:
1.247 jufi 2448: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2449: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2450: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2451: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2452:
2453: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2454: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2455: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2456: <p>
1.68 louis 2457:
1.247 jufi 2458: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2459: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2460: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2461: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2462: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2463:
1.111 jufi 2464: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2465: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2466: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2467: "secure by default" installation.
2468: <p>
1.64 louis 2469:
1.247 jufi 2470: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2471: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2472: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2473: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2474:
1.113 naddy 2475: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2476: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2477: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2478: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2479: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2480: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2481: <p>
1.66 louis 2482:
1.247 jufi 2483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2484: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2485: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2486: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2487:
2488: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2489: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2490: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2491: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2492: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2493: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2494: <p>
1.83 louis 2495:
1.247 jufi 2496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2497: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2498: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2499: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2500:
2501: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2502: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2503: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2504: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2505: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2506: <p>
1.64 louis 2507:
1.247 jufi 2508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2509: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2510: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2511: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2512:
2513: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2514: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2515: <p>
1.301 jose 2516:
2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2518: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2519: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2520: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522:
2523: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2524: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2525: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2526: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2527: Giving way to
2528: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2529: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2530: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2531: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2532: <p>
1.247 jufi 2533: </ul>
1.65 louis 2534:
1.69 deraadt 2535: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2536: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2537:
1.247 jufi 2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2539: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2540: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2541: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2542:
2543: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2544: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2545: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2546: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2547: <p>
1.88 louis 2548:
1.247 jufi 2549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2550: <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 2551: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2552:
2553: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2554: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2555: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2556: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2557: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2558: <p>
1.60 louis 2559:
1.247 jufi 2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2561: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2562: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2563: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2564: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2565:
2566: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2567: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2568: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2569: <p>
1.58 louis 2570:
1.247 jufi 2571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2572: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2573: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2574:
2575: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2576: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2577: <p>
1.53 louis 2578:
1.247 jufi 2579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2580: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2581: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2582: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2583:
2584: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2585: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2586: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2587: <p>
1.99 louis 2588:
1.247 jufi 2589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2590: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2591: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2592:
2593: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2594: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2595: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2596: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2597: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2600: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2601: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2602: </strong></font><br>
2603:
2604: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2605: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2606: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2607: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2608: <p>
2609:
1.247 jufi 2610: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2611: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2612: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2613: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2614:
2615: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2616: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2617: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2618:
1.247 jufi 2619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2620: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2621: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2622:
2623: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2624: in
1.247 jufi 2625: <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 2626: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2627: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2628: <p>
1.53 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2631: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2632: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2633: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2634: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2635:
1.58 louis 2636: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2637: <p>
1.301 jose 2638:
2639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2640: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2641: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2642: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2643: Informacyjny, January 2000
2644: </strong></font><br>
2645:
2646: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2647: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2648: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2649: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2650: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2651: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2652: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2653: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2654: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2655: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2656: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2657: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2658: <p>
2659:
2660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2661: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2662: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2663: </strong></font><br>
2664:
2665: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2666: <p>
2667: </ul>
1.247 jufi 2668: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2669:
1.69 deraadt 2670: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2671: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2672:
1.247 jufi 2673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2674: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2675: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2676: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2677: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2678:
1.58 louis 2679: Kurt Seifried
2680: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2681: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2682: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2683: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2686: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2687: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2688: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2689:
2690: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2691: <p>
1.96 louis 2692:
1.247 jufi 2693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2694: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2695: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2696: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2697: </strong></font><br>
2698:
2699: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2700: <p>
2701:
2702: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2703: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2704: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2705: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2706:
2707: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2708: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2709: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2710: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2711: <p>
1.247 jufi 2712: </ul>
1.86 louis 2713:
1.69 deraadt 2714: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2715: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2716:
1.247 jufi 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2718: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2719: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2720: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2721:
2722: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2723: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2724: <p>
1.61 louis 2725:
1.247 jufi 2726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2727: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2728: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2729: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2730: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2731:
2732: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2733: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2734: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2735: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2736: right -- or at least strives to".
2737: <p>
1.48 louis 2738:
1.247 jufi 2739: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2740: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2741: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2742: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2743: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2744: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2745: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2746: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2747: <p>
1.61 louis 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <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 2750: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2751: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2752:
2753: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2754: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2755: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2756: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2757: <p>
1.46 louis 2758:
1.247 jufi 2759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2760: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2761: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2762: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2763:
2764: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2765: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2766: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2769: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2770: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2771: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2772:
2773: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2774: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2775: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2776: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2777: <p>
1.247 jufi 2778: </ul>
1.70 louis 2779:
1.69 deraadt 2780: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2781: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2782:
1.247 jufi 2783: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2784: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2785: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2786: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2787: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2788:
2789: Kurt Seifried
2790: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2791: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2792: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2793: <p>
1.44 philen 2794:
1.247 jufi 2795: <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 2796: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2797: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2798:
2799: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2800: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2801:
1.247 jufi 2802: <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 2803: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2804: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2805:
2806: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2807: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <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 2810: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2811: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2812:
2813: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2814: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2815: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2816: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2817: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: <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 2820: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2821: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2822:
1.36 louis 2823: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2824: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2825:
1.247 jufi 2826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2827: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2828: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2829: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2830:
2831: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2832: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2833: </ul>
1.38 louis 2834:
1.69 deraadt 2835: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2836: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2837:
1.247 jufi 2838: <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 2839: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2840: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2841:
2842: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2843: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2844: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2845:
1.113 naddy 2846: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2847: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2848: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2849: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2850:
2851: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2852: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2853: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2854: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2855: <blockquote>
2856: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2857: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2858: <br>
2859: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2860: </code>
2861: </blockquote>
2862: <p>
2863:
1.247 jufi 2864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2865: <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>
2866: <p>
2867:
2868: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2869: <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 2870: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2871:
2872: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2873: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2874: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2875: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2878: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
2879: Sept. 28, 1999
2880: </strong></font><br>
2881:
2882: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2883: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2884: translating and reprinting articles from
2885: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
2886: <p>
2887:
2888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2889: <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 2890: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2891:
2892: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2893: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2894: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2895: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2896: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2897: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2898: <p>
1.19 louis 2899:
1.113 naddy 2900: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2901: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2902: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2903:
2904: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2905: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2906: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2907: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2908: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2909: <p>
1.16 louis 2910:
1.247 jufi 2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2912: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2913: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2914: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2915:
1.57 louis 2916: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2917: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2918: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2919: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2920:
1.247 jufi 2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2922: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2923: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2924: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2925:
1.113 naddy 2926: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2927:
1.247 jufi 2928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2929: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2930: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2931: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2932:
1.23 louis 2933: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2934: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2935: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2936: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2937: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2938: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2939:
1.247 jufi 2940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2941: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2942: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2943: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2944:
1.199 pvalchev 2945: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2946: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2947: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2948: installation.
1.113 naddy 2949: <p>
1.47 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2952: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2953: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2954: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2955:
1.301 jose 2956: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
2957: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
2958: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2959: </ul>
1.57 louis 2960:
1.69 deraadt 2961: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2962: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2963:
1.247 jufi 2964: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2965: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2966: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2967: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2968:
2969: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2970: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2971: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2972: <p>
1.12 louis 2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2975: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2976: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 2977: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 2978:
2979: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
2980: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 2981: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
2982: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
2983: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
2984: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
2985: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 2986: <p>
1.247 jufi 2987: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 2988:
1.69 deraadt 2989: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2990: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 2991:
1.247 jufi 2992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 2993: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 2994: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 2995:
2996: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
2997: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
2998: available."
1.113 naddy 2999: <p>
1.301 jose 3000:
3001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3002: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3003: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3004: </strong></font><br>
3005:
3006: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3007: <p>
1.247 jufi 3008: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3009:
1.69 deraadt 3010: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3011: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3012:
1.247 jufi 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3014: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3015: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3016:
3017: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3018: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3019: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3020: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3021: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3022: <p>
1.33 louis 3023:
1.247 jufi 3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3025: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3026: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3027: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3028:
1.113 naddy 3029: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3030: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3031: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3032: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3033: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3034: <p>
1.247 jufi 3035: </ul>
1.57 louis 3036:
1.69 deraadt 3037: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3038: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3041: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3042: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3043: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3044:
3045: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3046: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3047: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3050: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3051: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3052: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3053: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3054:
3055: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3056: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3057:
1.247 jufi 3058: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3059: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3060:
1.113 naddy 3061: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3064: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3065: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3066: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3067:
3068: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3069: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3070: </ul>
1.23 louis 3071:
1.69 deraadt 3072: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3073: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3074:
1.247 jufi 3075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3076: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3077: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3078:
3079: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3080: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3081: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3082:
1.247 jufi 3083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3084: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3085: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3086: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3087:
3088: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3089: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3090: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3091: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3092: </ul>
1.57 louis 3093:
1.69 deraadt 3094: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3095: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3098: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3099: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3100: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3101:
3102: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3103: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3104: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3105: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3106: <p>
1.15 louis 3107:
1.247 jufi 3108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3109: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3110: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3111: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3112:
3113: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3114: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3115: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3116: columns."
1.113 naddy 3117: <p>
1.247 jufi 3118: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3119:
1.69 deraadt 3120: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3121: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3124: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3125: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3126: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3127:
3128: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3129: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3130:
1.113 naddy 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3132: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3133: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3134:
3135: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3136: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3137: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3138: </ul>
1.57 louis 3139:
1.69 deraadt 3140: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3141: <ul>
1.301 jose 3142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3143: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3144: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3145: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3146:
3147: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3148: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3149: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3150: <p>
3151:
3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3153: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3154: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3155: Nov 13, 1998 and
3156: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3157: Datateknik</a>,
3158: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3159:
3160: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3161: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3162: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3163: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3164: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3165:
1.113 naddy 3166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3167: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3168: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3169: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3170:
1.222 miod 3171: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3172: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3173: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3174: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3175: <p>
1.247 jufi 3176: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3177:
1.69 deraadt 3178: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3179: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3180:
1.247 jufi 3181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3182: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3183: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3184:
1.69 deraadt 3185: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3186: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3187: <p>
1.247 jufi 3188: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3189:
1.69 deraadt 3190: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3191: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3192:
1.247 jufi 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3194: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3195: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3196: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3197:
3198: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3199: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3200: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3203: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3204: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3205: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3206: <p>
1.247 jufi 3207: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3208:
1.69 deraadt 3209: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3210: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3211:
1.247 jufi 3212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3213: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3214: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3215: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3216: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3217: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3218:
3219: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3220: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3221: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 3222: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3223: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3224: <p>
1.247 jufi 3225: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3226:
3227: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3228: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3229:
1.247 jufi 3230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3231: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3232: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3233:
1.69 deraadt 3234: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3235: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3236: <p>
1.112 naddy 3237:
1.247 jufi 3238: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3239: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3240:
1.252 miod 3241: </ul>
3242:
1.292 camield 3243: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3244: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3245: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.302 ! jose 3246: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.301 2003/04/21 04:56:00 jose Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3247:
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