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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.
1.308 jose 27: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 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">
1.307 deraadt 37: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
38: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 39: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 40: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
41: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 42: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
43: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 44: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 45: </ul>
46: <p>
47:
48: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 49: <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
1.302 jose 50: [TURKISH] DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 51: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 52: </strong></font><br>
53: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 54: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
55: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
56: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
57: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
58: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
59: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 60: <p>
61:
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 63: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
64: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 65: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
66: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 67: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
68: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
69: at UPenn and DARPA.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 73: [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,
1.306 deraadt 74: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 75: </strong></font><br>
76: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
77: <p>
78:
79: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 80: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
81: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
82: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 83: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 84: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
85: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
86: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
87: <p>
88:
89: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 90: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
91: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 92: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 93: </strong></font><br>
94: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
95: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
96: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 97: American century.
1.267 deraadt 98: <p>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 101: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
102: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 103: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 104: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 105: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
106: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
107: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
108: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
109: Can also be found online at:
110: <ul>
111: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
112: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 113: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 114: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 115: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 116: <p>
117:
118: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 119: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 120: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 121: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 122: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 123: </strong></font><br>
124: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 125: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
126: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
127: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
128: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 129:
130: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
131: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
132: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
133: New York Times.
134: </strong></font>(free registration required)
135:
1.273 deraadt 136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
137: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 138: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 139: ABC News.
140: </strong></font>
141:
142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 143: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 144: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 145: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 146: </strong></font>
147:
148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 149: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 150: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 151: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 152: </strong></font>
153:
154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 155: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
156: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 157: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 158: </strong></font>
159:
160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 161: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 162: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 163: Times Daily, AL.
164: </strong></font>
165:
166: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
167: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
168: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
169: Boston.com, MA.
170: </strong></font>
171:
172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 173: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 174: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 175: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
176: </strong></font>
177:
178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 179: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
180: [Article was pulled]</a>
181: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 182: </strong></font>
183:
184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
185: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
186: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
187: Infoshop News.
188: </strong></font>
189:
190: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
191: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
192: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
193: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
194: </strong></font>
195:
196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 197: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
198: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
199: Raleigh News, NC.
200: </strong></font>
201:
202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 ! deraadt 203: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
! 204: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
! 205: Napa News, CA.
! 206: </strong></font>
! 207:
! 208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 209: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 210: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
211: NEPA News, PA.
212: </strong></font>
213:
214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
215: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
216: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
217: Wired News.
218: </strong></font>
219:
1.271 deraadt 220: </ul>
221: <p>
1.272 deraadt 222: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
223: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 224: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
225: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
226: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
227: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
228: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
229: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 230: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 231: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
232: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
233: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 234: <p>
235: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 236:
237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 238: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 239: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
240: Indianapolis Star, IN.
241: </strong></font>
242:
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 244: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
245: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
246: Miami Herald, FL.
247: </strong></font>
248:
249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 250: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 251: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
252: </strong></font>
253:
254: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
255: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 256: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 257: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 258: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 259:
260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
261: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
262: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
263: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
264: ABC News.
265: </strong></font>
266:
1.276 deraadt 267: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
268: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 269: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 270: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 271: </strong></font>
272:
1.286 dhartmei 273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 274: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 275: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
276: Wilmington Star, NC.
277: </strong></font>
278:
1.300 jose 279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
280: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
281: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
282: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
283: </strong></font>
284:
1.309 jose 285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
286: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
287: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
288: Globe Technology.
289: </strong></font>
290:
1.263 deraadt 291: </ul>
1.262 beck 292: <p>
293:
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 295: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
296: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 297: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 298: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 299: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 300: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
301: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 305: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
306: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
307: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 308: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 309: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
310: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
311: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
312: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
313: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
314: and simply restates other press reports.
315: <p>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 318: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
319: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
320: OS News, April 18, 2003.
321: </strong></font><br>
322: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
323: <p>
324:
325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 326: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
327: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 328: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 329: </strong></font><br>
330: Another report on the DARPA funding.
331: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
332: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 336: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
337: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 338: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 339: </strong></font><br>
340: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
341: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
342: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
343: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
344: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
345: Goes on to say:
346: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
347: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
348: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
349: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 350: This article is also found online at:
351: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 352: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
353: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
354: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
355: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 356: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
358: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
359: ZDnet</a>,
360: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 361: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
363: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
364: ZDnet Australia</a>,
365: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 366: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 367: </ul>
1.260 ian 368: <p>
1.279 deraadt 369:
1.260 ian 370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 371: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 372: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 373: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 374: </strong></font><br>
1.290 jose 375: SlashDot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 376: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
377: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
378: without notice or justification.
379: <p>
380:
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 382: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 383: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 384: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 385: </strong></font><br>
386: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
387: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 388: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 389: effective today, without any warning..."
390: <p>
1.257 ian 391:
392: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 393: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
394: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 395: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 396: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 397: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
398: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
399: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
400: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
401: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 405: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
406: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 407: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 408: </strong></font><br>
409: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
410: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
411: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
412: quoting two of them:
413: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
414: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
415: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
416: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
417: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
418: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
419: <p>
420:
1.255 ian 421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 422: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
423: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 424: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 425: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 426: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 427: <p>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
430: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-13.04.03-000/">OpenBSD mit neuem Sicherheitskozept</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 431: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 432: </strong></font><br>
433: New security concepts in OpenBSD
434: <p>
435:
436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 437: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
438: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 439: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 440: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 441: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 442: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
443: security experts for more than three decades."
444: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
445: <p>
1.261 ian 446:
1.254 drahn 447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 448: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterst&uuml;tzt OpenBSD</a>,
449: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 450: </strong></font><br>
451: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
452: <p>
453:
454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 455: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
456: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
457: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
458: </strong></font><br>
459: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
460: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
461: discussion OpenBSD's path.
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 465: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
466: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 467: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 468: </strong></font><br>
469: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
470: from US DARPA.
471: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
472: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
473: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
474: the BSD license.
475: <p>
476: </ul>
477:
1.251 ian 478: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
479: <ul>
480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 482: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
483: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
484: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
485: </strong></font><br>
486:
487: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
488: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
489: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
490: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 494: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
495: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 496: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 497: </strong></font><br>
498: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
499: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
500: Mentions
501: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
502: and
503: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
504: programs.
505: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 506: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 507: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
508: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
509: <p>
1.260 ian 510:
511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
512: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
513: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
514: </strong></font><br>
515: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
516: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
517: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
518: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
519: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
520: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
521: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
522: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
523: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
524: put into service."
525: <p>
526: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
527: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
528: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
529: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
530: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
531: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
532: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
533: computers with security features."
534: <p>
1.251 ian 535: </ul>
536:
1.249 jufi 537: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
538: <ul>
539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
540: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
541: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 542: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 543: </strong></font><br>
544: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
545: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 546: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 547: <p>
548: </ul>
549:
1.246 jufi 550: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 551: <ul>
1.246 jufi 552:
1.247 jufi 553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 554: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 555: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
556: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 557: </strong></font><br>
558: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
559: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
560: <p>
561:
1.247 jufi 562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 563: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
564: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
565: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
566: </strong></font><br>
567: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
568: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
569: <p>
570:
571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 572: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 573: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
574: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 575: </strong></font><br>
576: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
577: in their annual OpenHack security test.
578: <p>
1.247 jufi 579: </ul>
1.246 jufi 580:
1.244 jufi 581: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 582: <ul>
1.246 jufi 583:
1.247 jufi 584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 585: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
586: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
587: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 588: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 589: </strong></font><br>
590: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
591: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
592: md5 digests.
593: <p>
594:
1.247 jufi 595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 596: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 597: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
598: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 599: </strong></font><br>
600: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
601: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
602: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
603: right the first time."
604: <p>
1.247 jufi 605: </ul>
1.244 jufi 606:
607:
608: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 609: <ul>
1.244 jufi 610:
1.247 jufi 611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 612: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 613: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
614: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 615: </strong></font><br>
616: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
617: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
618: part 6</a>.
619: <p>
620:
1.247 jufi 621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 622: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 623: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
624: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 625: </strong></font><br>
626: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
627: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
628: <p>
1.301 jose 629:
630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
631: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
632: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
633: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
634: </strong></font><br>
635:
636: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
637: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
638: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
639: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
640: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
641: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
642: <i>Here's the
643: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
644: <p>
1.247 jufi 645: </ul>
1.242 jufi 646:
647: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 648: <ul>
1.242 jufi 649:
1.247 jufi 650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 651: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 652: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
653: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 654: </strong></font><br>
655: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
656: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
657: <p>
658:
1.247 jufi 659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 660: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 661: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
662: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 663: </strong></font><br>
664: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
665: this time using pf.
666: <p>
1.247 jufi 667: </ul>
1.242 jufi 668:
669: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 670: <ul>
1.242 jufi 671:
1.247 jufi 672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 673: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 674: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
675: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 676: </strong></font><br>
677: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
678: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
679: their rotation.
680: <p>
681:
1.247 jufi 682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 683: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 684: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
685: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 686: </strong></font><br>
687: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
688: <p>
1.247 jufi 689: </ul>
1.242 jufi 690:
1.239 jufi 691: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 692: <ul>
1.239 jufi 693:
1.247 jufi 694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 695: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 696: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
697: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 698: </strong></font><br>
699: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
700: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
701: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
702: <p>
703:
1.247 jufi 704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 705: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 706: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
707: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 708: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 709: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
710: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
711: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 712: <p>
1.247 jufi 713: </ul>
1.239 jufi 714:
1.235 lebel 715: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 716: <ul>
1.235 lebel 717:
1.239 jufi 718:
1.247 jufi 719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 720: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 721: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
722: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 723: </strong></font><br>
724: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
725: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
726: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
727: <p>
1.301 jose 728:
1.247 jufi 729: </ul>
1.235 lebel 730:
1.228 horacio 731: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 732: <ul>
1.228 horacio 733:
1.247 jufi 734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 735: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 736: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
737: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 738: </strong></font><br>
739: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
740: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
741: <p>
742:
1.247 jufi 743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 744: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 745: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
746: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 747: </strong></font><br>
748: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
749: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
750: <p>
751:
1.247 jufi 752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 753: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 754: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
755: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 756: </strong></font><br>
757: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
758: on the desktop of his parents.
759: <p>
760:
1.247 jufi 761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 762: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 763: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
764: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 765: </strong></font><br>
766: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
767: using IPFilter.
768:
769: <p>
770:
1.247 jufi 771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 772: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 773: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
774: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 775: </strong></font><br>
776: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
777: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
778: perspectives of the four OS.
779: <br>
780: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 781: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 782: <p>
783:
1.247 jufi 784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 785: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
786: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 787: software and security</a>,
788: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 789: </strong></font><br>
790:
791: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
792: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
793: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
794: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
795: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
796: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
797: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
798: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
799: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
800: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
801: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
802: security conscious team beyond doubt.
803: <p>
1.247 jufi 804: </ul>
1.228 horacio 805:
1.225 horacio 806: <h2>January, 2002</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/2002/January/Features617.html">
811: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 812: Interview</a>,
813: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 814: </strong></font><br>
815:
816: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
817: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
818: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 819: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 820: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
821: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
822: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
823: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
824: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 825: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 826: of choice.
827: <p>
1.247 jufi 828: </ul>
1.225 horacio 829:
830: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 831: <ul>
1.225 horacio 832:
1.247 jufi 833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 834: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 835: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
836: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 837: </strong></font><br>
838:
839: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
840: <p>
841:
1.247 jufi 842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 843: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 844: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
845: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 846: </strong></font><br>
847:
848: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
849: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
850: <p>
1.247 jufi 851: </ul>
1.225 horacio 852:
1.218 horacio 853: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 854: <ul>
1.218 horacio 855:
1.247 jufi 856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 857: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 858: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
859: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 860: </strong></font><br>
861:
862: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
863: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
864: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
865: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
866: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
867: subjects. Worth a read.
868: <p>
869:
870:
1.247 jufi 871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 872: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 873: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
874: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 875: </strong></font><br>
876:
877: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
878: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
879: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
880: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
881: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
882: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
883: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
884: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
885: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 886: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 887: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
888: on other operating systems.<br>
889: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
890: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
891: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
892: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
893: <p>
894:
1.247 jufi 895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 896: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 897: Operating System 2010</a>,
898: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 899: </strong></font><br>
900:
901: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
902: covering the level of software integration into the core
903: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
904: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
905: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
906: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
907: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
908: <p>
909:
1.247 jufi 910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 911: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 912: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
913: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 914: </strong></font><br>
915:
916: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
917: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
918: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
919: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
920: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
921: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
922: <p>
1.247 jufi 923: </ul>
1.221 horacio 924:
1.210 jufi 925: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 926: <ul>
1.215 horacio 927:
1.247 jufi 928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 929: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 930: Already a Contender</a>,
931: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 932: </strong></font><br>
933:
934: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
935: source software in response to an article which claimed that
936: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
937: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
938: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
939: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
940: <p>
941:
1.247 jufi 942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 943: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 944: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
945: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 946: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 947:
1.224 horacio 948: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
949: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
950: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
951: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
952: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
953: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 954: <p>
1.247 jufi 955: </ul>
1.215 horacio 956:
957: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 958: <ul>
1.215 horacio 959:
1.247 jufi 960: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 961: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
962: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 963: Division</a>,
964: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 965: </strong></font><br>
966:
967: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
968: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 969: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 970: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
971: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
972: investment</em>.<br>
973: The implementation details can be seen on their
974: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
975: <p>
976:
1.247 jufi 977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 978: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
979: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
980: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
981: </strong></font><br>
982:
983: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
984: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
985: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
986: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
987: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
988: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
989: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
990: <p>
991:
992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 993: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 994: Thinking about Security</a>,
995: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 996: </strong></font><br>
997:
998: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
999: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1000: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1001: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1002: to time.<br>
1003: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1004: system and just the most secure system.
1005: <p>
1006:
1.247 jufi 1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1008: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1009: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1010: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012:
1013: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1014: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1015: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1016: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1017: choice:<br>
1018: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1019: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1020: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1021: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1022: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1023: network security devices and as such must be well
1024: armored."</em><br>
1025: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1026: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1027: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1028: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1029: <br>
1030: Bravo!
1031: <p>
1.247 jufi 1032: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1033:
1.207 ian 1034: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1035: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1036:
1.247 jufi 1037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1038: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1039: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1040: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1041:
1.207 ian 1042: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1043: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1044: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1045: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1046: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1047: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1048: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1049: <p>
1.247 jufi 1050: </ul>
1.207 ian 1051:
1.194 jufi 1052: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1053: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1054:
1.247 jufi 1055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1056: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1057: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1058: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1059: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1060:
1.240 miod 1061: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1062: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1063: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1064: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1065: <p>
1066:
1.247 jufi 1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1068: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1069: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1070: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1071:
1072: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1073: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1074: <p>
1075:
1076: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1077: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1078: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1079: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1080:
1081: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1082: <p>
1083:
1084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1085: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1086: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1087: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1088: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1089:
1.240 miod 1090: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1091: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1092: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1093: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1094: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1095: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1096: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1097: <br>
1098: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1099: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1100: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1101: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1102: <p>
1103:
1.247 jufi 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1105: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1106: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1107: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1108: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1109:
1.194 jufi 1110: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1111: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1112: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1113: <br>
1114: The new
1115: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1116: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1117: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1118: <p>
1.247 jufi 1119: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1120:
1.190 horacio 1121: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1122: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1123:
1.247 jufi 1124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1125:
1126: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1127: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1128:
1.301 jose 1129:
1.191 jufi 1130: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1131: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1132:
1133: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1134: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1135:
1.212 horacio 1136: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1137: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1138: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1139:
1.211 horacio 1140: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1141: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1142: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1143:
1.247 jufi 1144: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1145: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1146:
1.247 jufi 1147: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1148: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1149:
1.212 horacio 1150: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1151: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1152: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1153:
1154: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1155: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1156:
1157: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1158: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1159:
1.301 jose 1160: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1161: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1162:
1.191 jufi 1163: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1164: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1165:
1166: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1167: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1168:
1.192 jufi 1169: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1170: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1171: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1172:
1.193 deraadt 1173: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1174: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1175: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1176:
1.247 jufi 1177: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1178: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1179:
1.247 jufi 1180: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1181: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1182: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1183:
1.213 horacio 1184: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1185: 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 1186: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1187:
1.190 horacio 1188: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1189: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1190: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1191: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1192: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1193: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1194: <p>
1.190 horacio 1195:
1.247 jufi 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1197: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1198: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1199: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1200: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1201:
1.195 jufi 1202: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1203: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1204: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1205: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1206: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1207: <p>
1208:
1.247 jufi 1209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1210: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1211: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1212: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1213: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1214:
1.191 jufi 1215: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1216: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1217: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1218: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1219: <p>
1220:
1221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1222: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1223: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1224: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1225:
1226: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1227: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1228: <p>
1.247 jufi 1229: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1230:
1.191 jufi 1231:
1.186 jufi 1232: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1233: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1234:
1.247 jufi 1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1236: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1237: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1238: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1239: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1240:
1.188 jufi 1241: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1242: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1243: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1244: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1245: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1246: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1247: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1248: <p>
1249:
1.301 jose 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1251: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1252: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1253: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1254:
1255: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1256: <p>
1.191 jufi 1257:
1.247 jufi 1258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1259: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1260: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1261: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1262: </strong></font><br>
1263:
1264: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1265: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1266: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1267: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1268: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1269: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1270: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1271: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1272: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1273: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1274: familiar?
1275: <p>
1.247 jufi 1276: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1277:
1.178 louis 1278: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1279: <ul>
1.178 louis 1280:
1.247 jufi 1281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1282: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1283: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1284: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1285: </strong></font><br>
1286:
1287: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1288: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1289: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1290: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1291: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1292: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1293: <p>
1294:
1.247 jufi 1295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1296: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1297: Open source under the hood</a>,
1298: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1299: </strong></font><br>
1300:
1301: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1302: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1303: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1304: <p>
1305:
1.247 jufi 1306: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1307: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1308: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1309: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1310: </strong></font><br>
1311:
1312: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1313: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1314: <p>
1.247 jufi 1315: </ul>
1.179 louis 1316:
1.174 louis 1317:
1.175 louis 1318: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1319: <ul>
1.175 louis 1320:
1.247 jufi 1321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1322: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1323: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1324: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1325: </strong></font><br>
1326:
1327: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1328: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1329: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1330: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1331: <p>
1332:
1.247 jufi 1333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1334: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1335: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1336: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1337: </strong></font><br>
1338:
1339: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1340: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1341: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1342: <p>
1.247 jufi 1343: </ul>
1.175 louis 1344:
1.176 louis 1345:
1.172 mickey 1346: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1347: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1348:
1.247 jufi 1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1350: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1351: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1352: </strong></font><br>
1353:
1354: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1355: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1356: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1357: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1358: <p>
1359:
1.247 jufi 1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1361: <a
1.269 deraadt 1362: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1363: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1364: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1365: </strong></font><br>
1366:
1367: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1368: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1369: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1370: <p>
1371:
1.247 jufi 1372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1373: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1374: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1375: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1376: </strong></font><br>
1377:
1378: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1379: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1380: <p>
1381:
1.247 jufi 1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1383: <a
1.269 deraadt 1384: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1385: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1386: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1387: </strong></font><br>
1388:
1389: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1390: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1391: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1392: our own Theo de Raadt.
1393: <p>
1394:
1.247 jufi 1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1396: <a
1.269 deraadt 1397: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1398: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1399: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1400: </strong></font><br>
1401:
1402: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1403: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1404: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1405: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1406: shut down.]
1407: <p>
1408:
1.247 jufi 1409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1410: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1411: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1412: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1413: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1414: </strong></font><br>
1415:
1416: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1417: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1418: <p>
1.247 jufi 1419: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1420:
1.161 louis 1421: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1422: <ul>
1.161 louis 1423:
1.247 jufi 1424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1425: <a
1.269 deraadt 1426: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1427: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1428: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1429: </strong></font><br>
1430:
1431: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1432: by John Wolley
1433: <p>
1434:
1.247 jufi 1435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1436: <a
1.269 deraadt 1437: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1438: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1439: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1440: </strong></font><br>
1441:
1442: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1443: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1444: OpenBSD).
1445: <p>
1446:
1.247 jufi 1447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1448: <a
1.247 jufi 1449: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1450: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1451: </strong></font><br>
1452:
1453: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1454: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1455: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1456: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1457: and hindsight.
1458: <p>
1459:
1.247 jufi 1460: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1461: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1462: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1463: </strong></font><br>
1464:
1465: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1466: <p>
1467:
1.247 jufi 1468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1469: <a
1.168 provos 1470: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1471: December 7, 2000
1472: </strong></font><br>
1473:
1474: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1475: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1476: us explain.
1477: <p>
1478:
1.247 jufi 1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1480: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1481: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1482: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1483: December 6, 2000
1484: </strong></font><br>
1485:
1486: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1487: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1488: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1489: <p>
1490:
1.247 jufi 1491: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1492: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1493: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1494: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1495: </strong></font><br>
1496:
1497: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1498: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1499: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1500: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1501: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1502: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1503: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1504: <p>
1505:
1506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1507: <a
1.226 horacio 1508: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1509: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1510: </strong></font><br>
1511:
1512: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1513: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1514: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1515: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1516: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1517: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1518: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1519: <p>
1.162 millert 1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1522: <a
1.161 louis 1523: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1524: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1525: </strong></font><br>
1526:
1527: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1528: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1532: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1533: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1534: </strong></font><br>
1535:
1536: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1537: <p>
1538:
1539:
1.247 jufi 1540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1541: <a
1.226 horacio 1542: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1543: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1544: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1545: </strong></font><br>
1546:
1547: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1548: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1549: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1550: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1551: <p>
1.247 jufi 1552: </ul>
1.169 louis 1553:
1.158 louis 1554: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1555: <ul>
1.147 louis 1556:
1.247 jufi 1557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1558: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1559: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1560: </strong></font><br>
1561:
1562: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1563: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1564: <p>
1565:
1.247 jufi 1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1567: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1568: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1569: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1570: </strong></font><br>
1571: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1572: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1573: <p>
1574:
1.247 jufi 1575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1576: <a
1577: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1578: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1579: </strong></font><br>
1580:
1581: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1582: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1583: <p>
1584:
1.247 jufi 1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1586: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1587: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1588: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1589:
1.213 horacio 1590: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1591: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1592: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1593: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1594: <p>
1.215 horacio 1595:
1.247 jufi 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1597: <a
1598: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1599: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1600: </strong></font><br>
1601:
1602: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1603: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1604: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1605: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1606: much of the attitude too).
1607: <p>
1.161 louis 1608:
1.247 jufi 1609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1610: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1611: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1612: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1613:
1.157 louis 1614: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1615: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1616: <p>
1.247 jufi 1617: </ul>
1.157 louis 1618:
1619: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1620: <ul>
1.157 louis 1621:
1.247 jufi 1622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1623: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1624: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1625: </strong></font><br>
1626:
1627: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1628: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1629: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1630: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1631: <p>
1632:
1.247 jufi 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1634: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1635: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1636: </strong></font><br>
1637:
1638: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1639: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1640: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1641: it because they love coding...
1642: <p>
1643:
1.247 jufi 1644: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1645: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1646: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1647: </strong></font><br>
1648:
1649: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1650: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1651: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1652: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1653: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1654: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1655: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1656: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1657: <p>
1658:
1.247 jufi 1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1660: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1661: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1662: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1663: </strong></font><br>
1664:
1665: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1666: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1667: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1668: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1669: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1670: the pizza.
1671: <p>
1672:
1.247 jufi 1673: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1674: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1675: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1676: </strong></font><br>
1677:
1678: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1679: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1680: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1681: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1682: problems.
1683: <p>
1684:
1.247 jufi 1685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1686: <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 1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1.222 miod 1689: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1690: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1691: - whether they like it or not.
1692: <p>
1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1695: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1696: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1697: </strong></font><br>
1698:
1699: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1700: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1701: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1702: <p>
1.148 aaron 1703:
1.247 jufi 1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1705: <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 1706: </strong></font><br>
1707:
1708: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1709: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1710: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1711: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1712: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1713: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1714: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1715: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1716: <p>
1717:
1.247 jufi 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1719: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1720: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1724: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1725: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1726: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1727: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1728: <p>
1.247 jufi 1729: </ul>
1.147 louis 1730:
1.138 louis 1731: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1732: <ul>
1.138 louis 1733:
1.247 jufi 1734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1735: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1736: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1737: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1738: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1739: </strong></font><br>
1740:
1.227 horacio 1741: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1742: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1743: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1744: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1745: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1746: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1747: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1748: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1749: <p>
1750:
1.247 jufi 1751: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1752: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1753: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1754: </strong></font><br>
1755:
1756: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1757: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1758: groups, and even Linux.
1759: <p>
1760:
1.247 jufi 1761: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1762: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1763: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1764: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1765: </strong></font><br>
1766:
1767: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1768: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1769: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1770: library after installing the OS.
1771: <p>
1772:
1.247 jufi 1773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1774: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1775: Sys Admin, September 2000
1776: </strong></font><br>
1777:
1778: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1779: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1780: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1781: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1782: (<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>,
1783: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1784: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1785: <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 1786: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1787: out of the system.
1788: <p>
1789:
1.247 jufi 1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1791: <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
1792: </strong></font><br>
1793:
1794: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1795: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1796: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1797: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1798: the IP filtering and address translation.
1799: <p>
1.301 jose 1800:
1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1802: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1803: </strong></font><br>
1804:
1805: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1806: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1807: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1808: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1809: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1810: <p>
1.247 jufi 1811: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1812:
1.131 louis 1813: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1814: <ul>
1.131 louis 1815:
1.247 jufi 1816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1817: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1818: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1819: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1820: </strong></font><br>
1821:
1822: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1823: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1824: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1825: <p>
1826:
1.247 jufi 1827: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1828: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1829: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1830: </strong></font><br>
1831:
1832: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1833: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1834: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1835: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1836: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1837: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1838: note of"</i>.
1839: <p>
1840:
1.247 jufi 1841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1842: <a
1.247 jufi 1843: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1844: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1845: </strong></font><br>
1846:
1847: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1848: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1849: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1850: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1851: <p>
1852:
1.247 jufi 1853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1854: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1855: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1856: </strong></font><br>
1857:
1858: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1859: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1860: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1861: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1862: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1863: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1864: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1865: <p>
1866:
1.247 jufi 1867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1868: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1869: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1870: 2000
1871: </strong></font><br>
1872:
1873: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1874: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1875: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1876: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1877: against current industry practices.
1878: <p>
1879:
1.247 jufi 1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1881: <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
1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1885: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1886: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1887: <p>
1888:
1.247 jufi 1889: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1890: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1891: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1892: </strong></font><br>
1893:
1894: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1895: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1896: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1897: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1898: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1899: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1900: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1901: <p>
1902:
1.247 jufi 1903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1904: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1905: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1906: </strong></font><br>
1907:
1908: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1909: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1910: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1911: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1912: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1913: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1914: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1915: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1916: <p>
1.247 jufi 1917: </ul>
1.131 louis 1918:
1.118 louis 1919: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1920: <ul>
1.118 louis 1921:
1.247 jufi 1922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1923: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1924: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1925: </strong></font><br>
1926:
1927: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1928: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1929: about time. The article mentions that
1930: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1931: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1932: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1933: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1934: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1935: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1936: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1937: <p>
1938:
1.247 jufi 1939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1940: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1941: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1942: </strong></font><br>
1943:
1944: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1945: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1946: of OpenSSH.
1947: <p>
1948:
1.247 jufi 1949: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1950: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1951: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1952: </strong></font><br>
1953:
1954: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1955: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1956: bridging.
1957: <p>
1958:
1.247 jufi 1959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1960: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1961: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1962: </strong></font><br>
1963:
1.121 deraadt 1964: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1965: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1966: <p>
1967:
1.247 jufi 1968: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1969: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1970: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1971: </strong></font><br>
1972:
1973: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
1974: <p>
1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 1977: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 1978: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
1979: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 1980: </strong></font><br>
1981:
1.120 deraadt 1982: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
1983: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 1984: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
1985: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
1986: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
1987: <p>
1988:
1.247 jufi 1989: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 1990: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
1991: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
1992: </strong></font><br>
1993:
1.222 miod 1994: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 1995: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
1996: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
1997: protocols and their quirks.
1998: <p>
1999:
1.247 jufi 2000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2001: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2002: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2003: </strong></font><br>
2004:
2005: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2006: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2007: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2008: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2009: <p>
2010:
1.247 jufi 2011: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2012: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2013: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2014: </strong></font><br>
2015:
2016: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2017: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2018: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2019: <p>
2020:
1.247 jufi 2021: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2022: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2023: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2024: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2025: </strong></font><br>
2026:
2027: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2028: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2029: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2030: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2031: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2032: <p>
1.247 jufi 2033: </ul>
1.118 louis 2034:
1.104 louis 2035: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2036: <ul>
1.104 louis 2037:
1.247 jufi 2038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2039: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2040: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2041: </strong></font><br>
2042:
2043: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2044: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2045: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2046: be a bit dry.
2047: <p>
2048:
1.247 jufi 2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2050: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2051: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2052: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2053: </strong></font><br>
2054: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2055: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2056: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2057: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2058: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2059: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2060: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2061: <p>
2062:
1.247 jufi 2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2064: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2065: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2066: 2000
1.128 louis 2067: </strong></font><br>
2068:
2069: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2070: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2071: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2072: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2073: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2074: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2075: <p>
2076:
1.247 jufi 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2078: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2079: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2080: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2081:
2082: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2083: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2084: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2085: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2086: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2087: <p>
1.110 louis 2088:
1.247 jufi 2089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2090: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2091: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2095: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2096: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2097: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2098: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2099: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2100: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2101: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2102: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2103: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2104: <p>
2105:
1.247 jufi 2106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2107: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2108: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2109:
2110: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2111: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2112: <p>
1.108 louis 2113:
1.247 jufi 2114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2115: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2116: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2117: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2118:
2119: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2120: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2121: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2122: <p>
1.106 louis 2123:
1.247 jufi 2124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2125: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2126: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2127: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2128:
2129: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2130: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2131: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2132: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2133: <p>
1.107 louis 2134:
1.247 jufi 2135: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2136: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2137: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2138: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2139:
2140: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2141: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2142: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2143: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2144: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2145: <p>
1.105 louis 2146:
1.247 jufi 2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2148: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2149: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2150: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2151:
1.113 naddy 2152: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2153: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2154: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2155: <p>
1.104 louis 2156:
1.247 jufi 2157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2158: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2159: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2160: </strong></font><br>
2161:
2162: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2163: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2164: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2165: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2166: <p>
1.301 jose 2167:
2168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2169: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2170: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2171: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2172:
2173: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2174: hardware-supported cryptography.
2175: <p>
1.247 jufi 2176: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2177:
1.85 louis 2178: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2179: <ul>
1.85 louis 2180:
1.247 jufi 2181: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2182: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2183: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2184: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2185:
2186: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2187: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2188: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2189: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2190: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2191: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2192: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2193: <p>
1.99 louis 2194:
1.247 jufi 2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2196: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2197: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2198: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2199:
2200: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2201: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2202: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2203: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2204: <p>
1.100 louis 2205:
1.247 jufi 2206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2207: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2208: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2209: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2210:
2211: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2212: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2213: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2214: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2215: <p>
1.95 louis 2216:
1.247 jufi 2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2218: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2219: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2220: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2221:
2222: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2223: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2224: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2225: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2226: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2227: <p>
1.92 louis 2228:
1.247 jufi 2229: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2230: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2231: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2232: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2233:
2234: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2235: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2236: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2237: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2238: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2239: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2240: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2241: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2242: <p>
1.91 louis 2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2245: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2246: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2247: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2248:
2249: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2250: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2251: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2252: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2253: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2254: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2255: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2256: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2257: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2258: <p>
1.90 louis 2259:
1.247 jufi 2260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2261: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2262: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2263: </strong></font><br>
2264: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2265: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2266: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2267: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2268: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2269: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2270: <p>
2271:
1.247 jufi 2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2273: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2274: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2275: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2276:
1.113 naddy 2277: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2278: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2279: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2280: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2281: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2282: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2283: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2284: <p>
1.87 louis 2285:
1.247 jufi 2286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2287: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2288: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2289: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2290:
2291: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2292: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2293: <p>
1.85 louis 2294:
1.247 jufi 2295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2296: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2297: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2298: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2299:
2300: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2301: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2302: <p>
2303:
2304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2305: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2306: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2307: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2308:
2309: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2310: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2311: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2312: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2313: <p>
1.89 louis 2314:
1.247 jufi 2315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2316: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2317: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2318: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2319:
2320: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2321: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2322: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2323: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2324: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2325: </ul>
1.85 louis 2326:
1.78 deraadt 2327: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2328: <ul>
1.74 louis 2329:
1.247 jufi 2330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2331: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2332: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2333: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2334: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2335:
2336: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2337: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2338: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2339: <p>
1.83 louis 2340:
1.247 jufi 2341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2342: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2343: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2344: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2345:
2346: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2347: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2348: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2349: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2350: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2351: <p>
1.93 louis 2352:
1.247 jufi 2353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2354: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2355: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2356: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2357: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2358:
1.83 louis 2359: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2360: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2361: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2362: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2363: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2364: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2365: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2366: <p>
1.82 aaron 2367:
1.247 jufi 2368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2369: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2370: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2371: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2372:
1.83 louis 2373: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2374: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2375: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2376: <p>
1.80 louis 2377:
1.247 jufi 2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2379: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2380: Bad Press</a>,
2381: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2382: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2383:
2384: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2385: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2386: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2387: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2388: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2389: <p>
1.247 jufi 2390: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2391:
2392: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2393: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2394:
1.247 jufi 2395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2396: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2397: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2398: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2399: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2400:
2401: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2402: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2403: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2404: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2405: <p>
1.74 louis 2406:
1.247 jufi 2407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2408: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2409: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2410: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2411:
1.219 horacio 2412: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2413: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2414: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2415: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2416: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2417: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2418: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2419: <p>
1.88 louis 2420:
1.247 jufi 2421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2422: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2423: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2424: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2425:
2426: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2427: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2428: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2429: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2430: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2431: <p>
1.81 louis 2432:
1.247 jufi 2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2434: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2435: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2436: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2437:
2438: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2439: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2440: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2441: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2442: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2443: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2444: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2445: <p>
1.90 louis 2446:
1.247 jufi 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2448: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2449: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2451:
2452: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2453: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2454: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2455: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2456: <p>
1.247 jufi 2457: </ul>
1.71 louis 2458:
1.69 deraadt 2459: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2460: <ul>
1.70 louis 2461:
1.247 jufi 2462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2463: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2464: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2465: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2466:
2467: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2468: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2469: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2470: <p>
1.70 louis 2471:
1.247 jufi 2472: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2473: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2474: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2475: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2476:
2477: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2478: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2479: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2480: <p>
1.68 louis 2481:
1.247 jufi 2482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2483: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2484: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2485: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2486: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2487:
1.111 jufi 2488: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2489: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2490: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2491: "secure by default" installation.
2492: <p>
1.64 louis 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2495: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2496: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2497: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2498:
1.113 naddy 2499: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2500: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2501: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2502: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2503: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2504: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2505: <p>
1.66 louis 2506:
1.247 jufi 2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2508: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2509: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2510: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2511:
2512: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2513: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2514: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2515: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2516: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2517: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2518: <p>
1.83 louis 2519:
1.247 jufi 2520: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2521: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2522: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2523: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2524:
2525: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2526: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2527: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2528: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2529: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2530: <p>
1.64 louis 2531:
1.247 jufi 2532: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2533: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2534: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2535: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2536:
2537: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2538: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2539: <p>
1.301 jose 2540:
2541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2542: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2543: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2544: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2545: </strong></font><br>
2546:
2547: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2548: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2549: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2550: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2551: Giving way to
2552: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2553: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2554: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2555: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2556: <p>
1.247 jufi 2557: </ul>
1.65 louis 2558:
1.69 deraadt 2559: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2560: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2561:
1.247 jufi 2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2563: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2564: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2565: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2566:
2567: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2568: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2569: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2570: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2571: <p>
1.88 louis 2572:
1.247 jufi 2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2574: <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 2575: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2576:
2577: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2578: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2579: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2580: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2581: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2582: <p>
1.60 louis 2583:
1.247 jufi 2584: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2585: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2586: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2587: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2588: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2589:
2590: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2591: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2592: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2593: <p>
1.58 louis 2594:
1.247 jufi 2595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2596: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2597: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2598:
2599: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2600: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2601: <p>
1.53 louis 2602:
1.247 jufi 2603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2604: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2605: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2606: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2607:
2608: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2609: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2610: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2611: <p>
1.99 louis 2612:
1.247 jufi 2613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2614: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2615: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2616:
2617: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2618: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2619: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2620: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2621: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2624: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2625: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2626: </strong></font><br>
2627:
2628: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2629: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2630: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2631: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2632: <p>
2633:
1.247 jufi 2634: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2635: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2636: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2637: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2638:
2639: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2640: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2641: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2644: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2645: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2646:
2647: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2648: in
1.247 jufi 2649: <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 2650: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2651: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2652: <p>
1.53 louis 2653:
1.247 jufi 2654: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2655: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2656: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2657: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2658: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2659:
1.58 louis 2660: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2661: <p>
1.301 jose 2662:
2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2664: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2665: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2666: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2667: Informacyjny, January 2000
2668: </strong></font><br>
2669:
2670: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2671: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2672: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2673: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2674: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2675: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2676: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2677: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2678: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2679: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2680: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2681: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2682: <p>
2683:
2684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2685: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2686: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2687: </strong></font><br>
2688:
2689: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2690: <p>
2691: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2692:
1.69 deraadt 2693: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2694: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2695:
1.247 jufi 2696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2697: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2698: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2699: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2700: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2701:
1.58 louis 2702: Kurt Seifried
2703: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2704: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2705: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2706: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2709: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2710: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2711: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2712:
2713: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2714: <p>
1.96 louis 2715:
1.247 jufi 2716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2717: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2718: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2719: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2720: </strong></font><br>
2721:
2722: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2723: <p>
2724:
2725: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2726: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2727: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2728: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2729:
2730: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2731: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2732: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2733: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2734: <p>
1.247 jufi 2735: </ul>
1.86 louis 2736:
1.69 deraadt 2737: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2738: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2741: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2742: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2743: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2744:
2745: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2746: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2747: <p>
1.61 louis 2748:
1.247 jufi 2749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2750: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2751: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2752: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2753: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2754:
2755: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2756: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2757: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2758: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2759: right -- or at least strives to".
2760: <p>
1.48 louis 2761:
1.247 jufi 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2763: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2764: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2765: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2766: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2767: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2768: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2769: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2770: <p>
1.61 louis 2771:
1.247 jufi 2772: <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 2773: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2774: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2775:
2776: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2777: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2778: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2779: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2780: <p>
1.46 louis 2781:
1.247 jufi 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2783: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2784: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2785: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2786:
2787: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2788: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2789: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2790:
1.247 jufi 2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2792: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2793: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2794: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2795:
2796: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2797: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2798: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2799: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2800: <p>
1.247 jufi 2801: </ul>
1.70 louis 2802:
1.69 deraadt 2803: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2804: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2805:
1.247 jufi 2806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2807: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2808: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2809: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2810: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2811:
2812: Kurt Seifried
2813: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2814: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2815: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2816: <p>
1.44 philen 2817:
1.247 jufi 2818: <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 2819: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2820: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2821:
2822: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2823: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2824:
1.247 jufi 2825: <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 2826: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2827: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2828:
2829: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2830: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <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 2833: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2834: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2835:
2836: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2837: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2838: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2839: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2840: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <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 2843: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2844: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2845:
1.36 louis 2846: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2847: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2850: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2851: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2852: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2853:
2854: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2855: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2856: </ul>
1.38 louis 2857:
1.69 deraadt 2858: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2859: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <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 2862: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2863: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2864:
2865: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2866: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2867: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2868:
1.113 naddy 2869: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2870: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2871: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2872: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2873:
2874: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2875: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2876: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2877: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2878: <blockquote>
2879: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2880: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2881: <br>
2882: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2883: </code>
2884: </blockquote>
2885: <p>
2886:
1.247 jufi 2887: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2888: <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>
2889: <p>
2890:
2891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2892: <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 2893: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2894:
2895: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2896: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2897: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2898: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2899:
1.247 jufi 2900: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2901: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
2902: Sept. 28, 1999
2903: </strong></font><br>
2904:
2905: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2906: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2907: translating and reprinting articles from
2908: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
2909: <p>
2910:
2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2912: <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 2913: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2914:
2915: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2916: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2917: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2918: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2919: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2920: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2921: <p>
1.19 louis 2922:
1.113 naddy 2923: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2924: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2925: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2926:
2927: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2928: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2929: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2930: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2931: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2932: <p>
1.16 louis 2933:
1.247 jufi 2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2935: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2936: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2937: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2938:
1.57 louis 2939: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2940: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2941: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2942: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2943:
1.247 jufi 2944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2945: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2946: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2947: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2948:
1.113 naddy 2949: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2950:
1.247 jufi 2951: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2952: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2953: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2954: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2955:
1.23 louis 2956: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2957: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2958: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2959: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2960: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2961: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2962:
1.247 jufi 2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2964: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2965: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2966: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2967:
1.199 pvalchev 2968: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2969: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2970: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2971: installation.
1.113 naddy 2972: <p>
1.47 louis 2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2975: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 2976: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 2977: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2978:
1.301 jose 2979: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
2980: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
2981: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 2982: </ul>
1.57 louis 2983:
1.69 deraadt 2984: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2985: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2986:
1.247 jufi 2987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 2988: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 2989: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 2990: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 2991:
2992: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
2993: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 2994: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2995: <p>
1.12 louis 2996:
1.247 jufi 2997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 2998: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 2999: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3000: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3001:
3002: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3003: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3004: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3005: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3006: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3007: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3008: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3009: <p>
1.247 jufi 3010: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3011:
1.69 deraadt 3012: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3013: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3016: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3017: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3018:
3019: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3020: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3021: available."
1.113 naddy 3022: <p>
1.301 jose 3023:
3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3025: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3026: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3027: </strong></font><br>
3028:
3029: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3030: <p>
1.247 jufi 3031: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3032:
1.69 deraadt 3033: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3034: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3035:
1.247 jufi 3036: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3037: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3038: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3039:
3040: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3041: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3042: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3043: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3044: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3045: <p>
1.33 louis 3046:
1.247 jufi 3047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3048: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3049: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3050: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3051:
1.113 naddy 3052: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3053: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3054: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3055: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3056: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3057: <p>
1.247 jufi 3058: </ul>
1.57 louis 3059:
1.69 deraadt 3060: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3061: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3062:
1.247 jufi 3063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3064: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3065: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3066: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3067:
3068: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3069: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3070: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3073: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3074: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3075: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3076: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3077:
3078: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3079: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3080:
1.247 jufi 3081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3082: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3083:
1.113 naddy 3084: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3085:
1.247 jufi 3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3087: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3088: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3089: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3090:
3091: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3092: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3093: </ul>
1.23 louis 3094:
1.69 deraadt 3095: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3096: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3097:
1.247 jufi 3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3099: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3100: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3101:
3102: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3103: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3104: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3107: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3108: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3109: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3110:
3111: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3112: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3113: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3114: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3115: </ul>
1.57 louis 3116:
1.69 deraadt 3117: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3118: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3119:
1.247 jufi 3120: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3121: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3122: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3123: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3124:
3125: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3126: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3127: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3128: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3129: <p>
1.15 louis 3130:
1.247 jufi 3131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3132: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3133: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3134: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3135:
3136: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3137: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3138: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3139: columns."
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.247 jufi 3141: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3142:
1.69 deraadt 3143: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3144: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3145:
1.247 jufi 3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3147: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3148: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3149: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3150:
3151: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3152: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3153:
1.113 naddy 3154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3155: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3156: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3157:
3158: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3159: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3160: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3161: </ul>
1.57 louis 3162:
1.69 deraadt 3163: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3164: <ul>
1.301 jose 3165: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3166: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3167: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3168: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3169:
3170: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3171: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3172: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3173: <p>
3174:
3175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3176: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3177: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3178: Nov 13, 1998 and
3179: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3180: Datateknik</a>,
3181: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3182:
3183: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3184: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3185: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3186: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3187: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3188:
1.113 naddy 3189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3190: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3191: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3192: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3193:
1.222 miod 3194: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3195: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3196: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3197: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3198: <p>
1.247 jufi 3199: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3200:
1.69 deraadt 3201: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3202: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3203:
1.247 jufi 3204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3205: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3206: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3207:
1.69 deraadt 3208: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3209: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3210: <p>
1.247 jufi 3211: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3212:
1.69 deraadt 3213: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3214: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3215:
1.247 jufi 3216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3217: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3218: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3219: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3220:
3221: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3222: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3223: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3224:
1.247 jufi 3225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3226: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3227: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3228: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3229: <p>
1.247 jufi 3230: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3231:
1.69 deraadt 3232: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3233: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3234:
1.247 jufi 3235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3236: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3237: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3238: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3239: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3240: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3241:
3242: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3243: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3244: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3245: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3246: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3247: <p>
1.247 jufi 3248: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3249:
3250: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3251: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3254: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3255: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3256:
1.69 deraadt 3257: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3258: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3259: <p>
1.112 naddy 3260:
1.247 jufi 3261: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3262: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3263:
1.292 camield 3264: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3265: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3266: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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