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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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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>
1.321 ! pvalchev 24: <a href="http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/23/3ea643207f30d">Federal funding abruptly cut for research project</a>, dailypennsylvanian.com, April 23, 2003.
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
! 27: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
! 28: <p>
! 29:
! 30: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 31: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
32: April 23, 2003.
33: </strong></font><br>
34: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
35: <p>
36:
37: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 38: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 39: April 22, 2003.
40: </strong></font><br>
41: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
42: <p>
43:
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 45: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
46: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
47: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 48: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 49: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
50: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
51: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
52: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
53: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
54: Can also be found online at:
55: <ul>
56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
57: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 58: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
59: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 60: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 61: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
62: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 63: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
64: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 65: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 66: </ul>
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 70: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
71: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 72: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 73: </strong></font><br>
74: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 75: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
76: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
77: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
78: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
79: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
80: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 84: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
85: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 86: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
87: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 88: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
89: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
90: at UPenn and DARPA.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 94: [FRENCH] <a href="http://www.weblmi.com/news_store/2003_04_18_La_DARPA_coupe_les_v_32/News_view">La DARPA coupe les vivres a OpenBSD</a>, Le Monde, France
95: April 18, 2003.
96: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 97: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 98: <p>
99:
100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 101: [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 102: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 103: </strong></font><br>
104: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
105: <p>
106:
107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 108: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
109: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
110: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 111: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 112: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
113: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
114: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
115: <p>
116:
117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 118: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
119: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 120: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 121: </strong></font><br>
122: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
123: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
124: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 125: American century.
1.267 deraadt 126: <p>
127:
128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 129: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
130: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 131: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 132: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 133: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
134: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
135: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
136: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
137: Can also be found online at:
138: <ul>
139: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
140: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 141: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 142: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 143: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 147: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 148: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 149: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 150: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 151: </strong></font><br>
152: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 153: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
154: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
155: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
156: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 157:
158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
159: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
160: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
161: New York Times.
162: </strong></font>(free registration required)
163:
1.273 deraadt 164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
165: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 166: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 167: ABC News.
168: </strong></font>
169:
170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 171: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 172: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 173: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 174: </strong></font>
175:
176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 177: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 178: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 179: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 180: </strong></font>
181:
182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 183: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
184: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 185: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 186: </strong></font>
187:
188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 189: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 190: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 191: Times Daily, AL.
192: </strong></font>
193:
194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
195: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
196: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
197: Boston.com, MA.
198: </strong></font>
199:
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 201: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 202: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 203: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
204: </strong></font>
205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 207: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
208: [Article was pulled]</a>
209: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 210: </strong></font>
211:
212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
213: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
214: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
215: Infoshop News.
216: </strong></font>
217:
218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
219: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
220: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
221: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
222: </strong></font>
223:
224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 225: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
226: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
227: Raleigh News, NC.
228: </strong></font>
229:
230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 231: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
232: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
233: Napa News, CA.
234: </strong></font>
235:
236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 237: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 238: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
239: NEPA News, PA.
240: </strong></font>
241:
242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
243: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
244: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
245: Wired News.
246: </strong></font>
247:
1.271 deraadt 248: </ul>
249: <p>
1.272 deraadt 250: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
251: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 252: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
253: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
254: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
255: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
256: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
257: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 258: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 259: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
260: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
261: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 262: <p>
263: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 264:
265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 266: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 267: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
268: Indianapolis Star, IN.
269: </strong></font>
270:
271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 272: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
273: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
274: Miami Herald, FL.
275: </strong></font>
276:
277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 278: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 279: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
280: </strong></font>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
283: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 284: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 285: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 286: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 287:
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
289: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
290: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
291: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
292: ABC News.
293: </strong></font>
294:
1.276 deraadt 295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
296: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 297: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 298: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 299: </strong></font>
300:
1.286 dhartmei 301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 302: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 303: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
304: Wilmington Star, NC.
305: </strong></font>
306:
1.300 jose 307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
308: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
309: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
310: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
311: </strong></font>
312:
1.309 jose 313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
315: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
316: Globe Technology.
317: </strong></font>
318:
1.263 deraadt 319: </ul>
1.262 beck 320: <p>
321:
322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 323: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
324: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 325: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 326: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 327: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 328: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
329: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
330: <p>
331:
332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 333: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
334: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
335: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 336: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 337: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
338: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
339: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
340: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
341: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
342: and simply restates other press reports.
343: <p>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 346: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
347: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
348: OS News, April 18, 2003.
349: </strong></font><br>
350: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
351: <p>
352:
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 354: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
355: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 356: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 357: </strong></font><br>
358: Another report on the DARPA funding.
359: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
360: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
361: <p>
362:
363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 364: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
365: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 366: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 367: </strong></font><br>
368: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
369: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
370: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
371: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
372: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
373: Goes on to say:
374: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
375: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
376: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
377: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 378: This article is also found online at:
379: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
381: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
382: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
383: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 384: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
386: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
387: ZDnet</a>,
388: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 389: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
391: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
392: ZDnet Australia</a>,
393: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 394: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 395: </ul>
1.260 ian 396: <p>
1.279 deraadt 397:
1.260 ian 398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 399: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 400: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.269 deraadt 401: SlashDot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 402: </strong></font><br>
1.290 jose 403: SlashDot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 404: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
405: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
406: without notice or justification.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 410: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 411: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 412: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 413: </strong></font><br>
414: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
415: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 416: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 417: effective today, without any warning..."
418: <p>
1.257 ian 419:
420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 421: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
422: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 423: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 424: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 425: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
426: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
427: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
428: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
429: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 430: <p>
431:
432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 433: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
434: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 435: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 436: </strong></font><br>
437: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
438: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
439: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
440: quoting two of them:
441: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
442: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
443: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
444: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
445: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
446: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
447: <p>
448:
1.255 ian 449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 450: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
451: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 452: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 453: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 454: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 455: <p>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
458: [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 459: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 460: </strong></font><br>
461: New security concepts in OpenBSD
462: <p>
463:
464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 465: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
466: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 467: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 468: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 469: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 470: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
471: security experts for more than three decades."
472: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
473: <p>
1.261 ian 474:
1.254 drahn 475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 476: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 477: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 478: </strong></font><br>
479: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
480: <p>
481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 483: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
484: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
485: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
486: </strong></font><br>
487: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
488: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
489: discussion OpenBSD's path.
490: <p>
491:
492: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 493: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
494: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 495: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 496: </strong></font><br>
497: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
498: from US DARPA.
499: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
500: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
501: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
502: the BSD license.
503: <p>
504: </ul>
505:
1.251 ian 506: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
507: <ul>
508:
509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 510: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
511: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
512: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
513: </strong></font><br>
514:
515: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
516: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
517: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
518: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
519: <p>
520:
521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 522: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
523: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 524: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 525: </strong></font><br>
526: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
527: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
528: Mentions
529: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
530: and
531: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
532: programs.
533: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 534: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 535: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
536: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
537: <p>
1.260 ian 538:
539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
540: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
541: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
542: </strong></font><br>
543: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
544: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
545: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
546: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
547: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
548: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
549: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
550: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
551: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
552: put into service."
553: <p>
554: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
555: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
556: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
557: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
558: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
559: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
560: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
561: computers with security features."
562: <p>
1.251 ian 563: </ul>
564:
1.249 jufi 565: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
566: <ul>
567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
568: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
569: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 570: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 571: </strong></font><br>
572: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
573: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 574: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 575: <p>
576: </ul>
577:
1.246 jufi 578: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 579: <ul>
1.246 jufi 580:
1.247 jufi 581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 582: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 583: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
584: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 585: </strong></font><br>
586: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
587: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
588: <p>
589:
1.247 jufi 590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 591: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
592: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
593: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
594: </strong></font><br>
595: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
596: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
597: <p>
598:
599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 600: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 601: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
602: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 603: </strong></font><br>
604: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
605: in their annual OpenHack security test.
606: <p>
1.247 jufi 607: </ul>
1.246 jufi 608:
1.244 jufi 609: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 610: <ul>
1.246 jufi 611:
1.247 jufi 612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 613: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
614: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
615: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 616: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 617: </strong></font><br>
618: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
619: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
620: md5 digests.
621: <p>
622:
1.247 jufi 623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 624: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 625: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
626: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 627: </strong></font><br>
628: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
629: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
630: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
631: right the first time."
632: <p>
1.247 jufi 633: </ul>
1.244 jufi 634:
635:
636: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 637: <ul>
1.244 jufi 638:
1.247 jufi 639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 640: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 641: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
642: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 643: </strong></font><br>
644: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
645: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
646: part 6</a>.
647: <p>
648:
1.247 jufi 649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 650: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 651: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
652: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 653: </strong></font><br>
654: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
655: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
656: <p>
1.301 jose 657:
658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
659: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
660: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
661: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
662: </strong></font><br>
663:
664: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
665: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
666: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
667: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
668: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
669: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
670: <i>Here's the
671: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
672: <p>
1.247 jufi 673: </ul>
1.242 jufi 674:
675: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 676: <ul>
1.242 jufi 677:
1.247 jufi 678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 679: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 680: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
681: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 682: </strong></font><br>
683: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
684: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
685: <p>
686:
1.247 jufi 687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 688: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 689: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
690: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 691: </strong></font><br>
692: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
693: this time using pf.
694: <p>
1.247 jufi 695: </ul>
1.242 jufi 696:
697: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 698: <ul>
1.242 jufi 699:
1.247 jufi 700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 701: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 702: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
703: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 704: </strong></font><br>
705: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
706: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
707: their rotation.
708: <p>
709:
1.247 jufi 710: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 711: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 712: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
713: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 714: </strong></font><br>
715: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
716: <p>
1.247 jufi 717: </ul>
1.242 jufi 718:
1.239 jufi 719: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 720: <ul>
1.239 jufi 721:
1.247 jufi 722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 723: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 724: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
725: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 726: </strong></font><br>
727: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
728: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
729: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
730: <p>
731:
1.247 jufi 732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 733: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 734: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
735: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 736: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 737: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
738: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
739: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 740: <p>
1.247 jufi 741: </ul>
1.239 jufi 742:
1.235 lebel 743: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 744: <ul>
1.235 lebel 745:
1.239 jufi 746:
1.247 jufi 747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 748: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 749: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
750: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 751: </strong></font><br>
752: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
753: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
754: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
755: <p>
1.301 jose 756:
1.247 jufi 757: </ul>
1.235 lebel 758:
1.228 horacio 759: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 760: <ul>
1.228 horacio 761:
1.247 jufi 762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 763: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 764: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
765: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 766: </strong></font><br>
767: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
768: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
769: <p>
770:
1.247 jufi 771: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 772: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 773: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
774: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 775: </strong></font><br>
776: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
777: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
778: <p>
779:
1.247 jufi 780: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 781: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 782: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
783: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 784: </strong></font><br>
785: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
786: on the desktop of his parents.
787: <p>
788:
1.247 jufi 789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 790: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 791: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
792: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 793: </strong></font><br>
794: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
795: using IPFilter.
796:
797: <p>
798:
1.247 jufi 799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 800: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 801: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
802: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 803: </strong></font><br>
804: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
805: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
806: perspectives of the four OS.
807: <br>
808: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 809: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 810: <p>
811:
1.247 jufi 812: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 813: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
814: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 815: software and security</a>,
816: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 817: </strong></font><br>
818:
819: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
820: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
821: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
822: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
823: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
824: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
825: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
826: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
827: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
828: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
829: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
830: security conscious team beyond doubt.
831: <p>
1.247 jufi 832: </ul>
1.228 horacio 833:
1.225 horacio 834: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 835: <ul>
1.225 horacio 836:
1.247 jufi 837: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 838: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
839: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 840: Interview</a>,
841: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 842: </strong></font><br>
843:
844: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
845: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
846: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 847: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 848: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
849: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
850: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
851: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
852: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 853: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 854: of choice.
855: <p>
1.247 jufi 856: </ul>
1.225 horacio 857:
858: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 859: <ul>
1.225 horacio 860:
1.247 jufi 861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 862: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 863: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
864: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 865: </strong></font><br>
866:
867: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
868: <p>
869:
1.247 jufi 870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 871: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 872: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
873: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 874: </strong></font><br>
875:
876: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
877: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
878: <p>
1.247 jufi 879: </ul>
1.225 horacio 880:
1.218 horacio 881: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 882: <ul>
1.218 horacio 883:
1.247 jufi 884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 885: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 886: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
887: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 888: </strong></font><br>
889:
890: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
891: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
892: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
893: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
894: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
895: subjects. Worth a read.
896: <p>
897:
898:
1.247 jufi 899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 900: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 901: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
902: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 903: </strong></font><br>
904:
905: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
906: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
907: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
908: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
909: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
910: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
911: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
912: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
913: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 914: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 915: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
916: on other operating systems.<br>
917: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
918: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
919: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
920: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
921: <p>
922:
1.247 jufi 923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 924: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 925: Operating System 2010</a>,
926: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 927: </strong></font><br>
928:
929: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
930: covering the level of software integration into the core
931: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
932: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
933: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
934: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
935: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
936: <p>
937:
1.247 jufi 938: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 939: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 940: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
941: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 942: </strong></font><br>
943:
944: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
945: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
946: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
947: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
948: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
949: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
950: <p>
1.247 jufi 951: </ul>
1.221 horacio 952:
1.210 jufi 953: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 954: <ul>
1.215 horacio 955:
1.247 jufi 956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 957: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 958: Already a Contender</a>,
959: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 960: </strong></font><br>
961:
962: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
963: source software in response to an article which claimed that
964: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
965: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
966: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
967: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
968: <p>
969:
1.247 jufi 970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 971: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 972: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
973: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 974: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 975:
1.224 horacio 976: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
977: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
978: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
979: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
980: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
981: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 982: <p>
1.247 jufi 983: </ul>
1.215 horacio 984:
985: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 986: <ul>
1.215 horacio 987:
1.247 jufi 988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 989: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
990: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 991: Division</a>,
992: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 993: </strong></font><br>
994:
995: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
996: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 997: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 998: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
999: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1000: investment</em>.<br>
1001: The implementation details can be seen on their
1002: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1003: <p>
1004:
1.247 jufi 1005: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1006: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1007: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1008: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1009: </strong></font><br>
1010:
1011: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1012: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1013: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1014: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1015: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1016: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1017: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1018: <p>
1019:
1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1021: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1022: Thinking about Security</a>,
1023: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1024: </strong></font><br>
1025:
1026: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1027: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1028: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1029: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1030: to time.<br>
1031: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1032: system and just the most secure system.
1033: <p>
1034:
1.247 jufi 1035: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1036: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1037: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1038: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1039: </strong></font><br>
1040:
1041: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1042: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1043: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1044: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1045: choice:<br>
1046: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1047: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1048: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1049: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1050: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1051: network security devices and as such must be well
1052: armored."</em><br>
1053: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1054: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1055: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1056: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1057: <br>
1058: Bravo!
1059: <p>
1.247 jufi 1060: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1061:
1.207 ian 1062: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1063: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1064:
1.247 jufi 1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1066: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1067: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1068: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1069:
1.207 ian 1070: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1071: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1072: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1073: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1074: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1075: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1076: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1077: <p>
1.247 jufi 1078: </ul>
1.207 ian 1079:
1.194 jufi 1080: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1081: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1082:
1.247 jufi 1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1084: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1085: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1086: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1087: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1088:
1.240 miod 1089: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1090: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1091: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1092: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1093: <p>
1094:
1.247 jufi 1095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1096: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1097: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1098: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1099:
1100: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1101: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1102: <p>
1103:
1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1105: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1106: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1107: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1108:
1109: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1110: <p>
1111:
1112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1113: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1114: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1115: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1116: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1117:
1.240 miod 1118: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1119: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1120: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1121: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1122: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1123: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1124: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1125: <br>
1126: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1127: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1128: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1129: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1130: <p>
1131:
1.247 jufi 1132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1133: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1134: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1135: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1136: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1137:
1.194 jufi 1138: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1139: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1140: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1141: <br>
1142: The new
1143: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1144: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1145: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1146: <p>
1.247 jufi 1147: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1148:
1.190 horacio 1149: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1150: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1151:
1.247 jufi 1152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1153:
1154: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1155: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1156:
1.301 jose 1157:
1.191 jufi 1158: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1159: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1160:
1161: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1162: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1163:
1.212 horacio 1164: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1165: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1166: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1167:
1.211 horacio 1168: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1169: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1170: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1171:
1.247 jufi 1172: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1173: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1174:
1.247 jufi 1175: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1176: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1177:
1.212 horacio 1178: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1179: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1180: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1181:
1182: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1183: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1184:
1185: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1186: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1187:
1.301 jose 1188: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1189: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1190:
1.191 jufi 1191: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1192: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1193:
1194: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1195: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1196:
1.192 jufi 1197: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1198: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1199: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1200:
1.193 deraadt 1201: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1202: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1203: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1204:
1.247 jufi 1205: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1206: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1207:
1.247 jufi 1208: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1209: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1210: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1211:
1.213 horacio 1212: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1213: 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 1214: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1215:
1.190 horacio 1216: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1217: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1218: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1219: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1220: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1221: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1222: <p>
1.190 horacio 1223:
1.247 jufi 1224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1225: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1226: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1227: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1228: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1229:
1.195 jufi 1230: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1231: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1232: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1233: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1234: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1235: <p>
1236:
1.247 jufi 1237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1238: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1239: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1240: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1241: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1242:
1.191 jufi 1243: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1244: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1245: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1246: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1247: <p>
1248:
1249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1250: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1251: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1252: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1253:
1254: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1255: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1256: <p>
1.247 jufi 1257: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1258:
1.191 jufi 1259:
1.186 jufi 1260: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1261: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1262:
1.247 jufi 1263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1264: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1265: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1266: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1267: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1268:
1.188 jufi 1269: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1270: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1271: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1272: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1273: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1274: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1275: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1276: <p>
1277:
1.301 jose 1278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1279: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1280: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1281: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1282:
1283: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1284: <p>
1.191 jufi 1285:
1.247 jufi 1286: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1287: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1288: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1289: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1290: </strong></font><br>
1291:
1292: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1293: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1294: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1295: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1296: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1297: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1298: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1299: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1300: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1301: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1302: familiar?
1303: <p>
1.247 jufi 1304: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1305:
1.178 louis 1306: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1307: <ul>
1.178 louis 1308:
1.247 jufi 1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1310: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1311: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1312: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1313: </strong></font><br>
1314:
1315: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1316: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1317: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1318: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1319: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1320: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1321: <p>
1322:
1.247 jufi 1323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1324: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1325: Open source under the hood</a>,
1326: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1327: </strong></font><br>
1328:
1329: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1330: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1331: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1332: <p>
1333:
1.247 jufi 1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1335: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1336: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1337: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1338: </strong></font><br>
1339:
1340: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1341: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1342: <p>
1.247 jufi 1343: </ul>
1.179 louis 1344:
1.174 louis 1345:
1.175 louis 1346: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1347: <ul>
1.175 louis 1348:
1.247 jufi 1349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1350: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1351: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1352: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1353: </strong></font><br>
1354:
1355: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1356: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1357: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1358: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1359: <p>
1360:
1.247 jufi 1361: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1362: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1363: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1364: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1365: </strong></font><br>
1366:
1367: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1368: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1369: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1370: <p>
1.247 jufi 1371: </ul>
1.175 louis 1372:
1.176 louis 1373:
1.172 mickey 1374: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1375: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1376:
1.247 jufi 1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1378: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1379: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1380: </strong></font><br>
1381:
1382: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1383: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1384: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1385: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1386: <p>
1387:
1.247 jufi 1388: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1389: <a
1.269 deraadt 1390: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1391: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1392: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1393: </strong></font><br>
1394:
1395: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1396: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1397: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1398: <p>
1399:
1.247 jufi 1400: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1401: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1402: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1403: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1404: </strong></font><br>
1405:
1406: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1407: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1408: <p>
1409:
1.247 jufi 1410: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1411: <a
1.269 deraadt 1412: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1413: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1414: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1415: </strong></font><br>
1416:
1417: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1418: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1419: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1420: our own Theo de Raadt.
1421: <p>
1422:
1.247 jufi 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1424: <a
1.269 deraadt 1425: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1426: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1427: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1428: </strong></font><br>
1429:
1430: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1431: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1432: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1433: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1434: shut down.]
1435: <p>
1436:
1.247 jufi 1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1438: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1439: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1440: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1441: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1442: </strong></font><br>
1443:
1444: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1445: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1446: <p>
1.247 jufi 1447: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1448:
1.161 louis 1449: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1450: <ul>
1.161 louis 1451:
1.247 jufi 1452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1453: <a
1.269 deraadt 1454: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1455: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1456: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1457: </strong></font><br>
1458:
1459: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1460: by John Wolley
1461: <p>
1462:
1.247 jufi 1463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1464: <a
1.269 deraadt 1465: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1466: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1467: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1468: </strong></font><br>
1469:
1470: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1471: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1472: OpenBSD).
1473: <p>
1474:
1.247 jufi 1475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1476: <a
1.247 jufi 1477: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1478: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1479: </strong></font><br>
1480:
1481: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1482: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1483: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1484: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1485: and hindsight.
1486: <p>
1487:
1.247 jufi 1488: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1489: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1490: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1491: </strong></font><br>
1492:
1493: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1494: <p>
1495:
1.247 jufi 1496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1497: <a
1.168 provos 1498: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1499: December 7, 2000
1500: </strong></font><br>
1501:
1502: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1503: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1504: us explain.
1505: <p>
1506:
1.247 jufi 1507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1508: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1509: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1510: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1511: December 6, 2000
1512: </strong></font><br>
1513:
1514: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1515: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1516: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1517: <p>
1518:
1.247 jufi 1519: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1520: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1521: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1522: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1523: </strong></font><br>
1524:
1525: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1526: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1527: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1528: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1529: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1530: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1531: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1532: <p>
1533:
1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1535: <a
1.226 horacio 1536: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1537: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1538: </strong></font><br>
1539:
1540: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1541: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1542: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1543: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1544: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1545: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1546: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1547: <p>
1.162 millert 1548:
1.247 jufi 1549: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1550: <a
1.161 louis 1551: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1552: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1553: </strong></font><br>
1554:
1555: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1556: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1557: <p>
1558:
1.247 jufi 1559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1560: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1561: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1562: </strong></font><br>
1563:
1564: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1565: <p>
1566:
1567:
1.247 jufi 1568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1569: <a
1.226 horacio 1570: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1571: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1572: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1573: </strong></font><br>
1574:
1575: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1576: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1577: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1578: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1579: <p>
1.247 jufi 1580: </ul>
1.169 louis 1581:
1.158 louis 1582: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1583: <ul>
1.147 louis 1584:
1.247 jufi 1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1586: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1587: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1588: </strong></font><br>
1589:
1590: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1591: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1592: <p>
1593:
1.247 jufi 1594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1595: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1596: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1597: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1598: </strong></font><br>
1599: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1600: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1601: <p>
1602:
1.247 jufi 1603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1604: <a
1605: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1606: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1607: </strong></font><br>
1608:
1609: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1610: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1611: <p>
1612:
1.247 jufi 1613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1614: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1615: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1616: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1617:
1.213 horacio 1618: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1619: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1620: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1621: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1622: <p>
1.215 horacio 1623:
1.247 jufi 1624: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1625: <a
1626: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1627: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1628: </strong></font><br>
1629:
1630: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1631: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1632: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1633: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1634: much of the attitude too).
1635: <p>
1.161 louis 1636:
1.247 jufi 1637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1638: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1639: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1640: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1641:
1.157 louis 1642: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1643: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1644: <p>
1.247 jufi 1645: </ul>
1.157 louis 1646:
1647: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1648: <ul>
1.157 louis 1649:
1.247 jufi 1650: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1651: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1652: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1653: </strong></font><br>
1654:
1655: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1656: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1657: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1658: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1659: <p>
1660:
1.247 jufi 1661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1662: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1663: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1664: </strong></font><br>
1665:
1666: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1667: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1668: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1669: it because they love coding...
1670: <p>
1671:
1.247 jufi 1672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1673: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1674: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1675: </strong></font><br>
1676:
1677: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1678: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1679: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1680: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1681: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1682: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1683: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1684: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1685: <p>
1686:
1.247 jufi 1687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1688: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1689: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1690: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1691: </strong></font><br>
1692:
1693: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1694: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1695: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1696: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1697: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1698: the pizza.
1699: <p>
1700:
1.247 jufi 1701: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1702: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1703: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1704: </strong></font><br>
1705:
1706: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1707: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1708: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1709: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1710: problems.
1711: <p>
1712:
1.247 jufi 1713: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1714: <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 1715: </strong></font><br>
1716:
1.222 miod 1717: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1718: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1719: - whether they like it or not.
1720: <p>
1721:
1.247 jufi 1722: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1723: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1724: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1725: </strong></font><br>
1726:
1727: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1728: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1729: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1730: <p>
1.148 aaron 1731:
1.247 jufi 1732: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1733: <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 1734: </strong></font><br>
1735:
1736: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1737: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1738: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1739: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1740: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1741: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1742: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1743: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1744: <p>
1745:
1.247 jufi 1746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1747: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1748: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1749: </strong></font><br>
1750:
1751: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1752: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1753: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1754: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1755: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1756: <p>
1.247 jufi 1757: </ul>
1.147 louis 1758:
1.138 louis 1759: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1760: <ul>
1.138 louis 1761:
1.247 jufi 1762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1763: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1764: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1765: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1766: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1767: </strong></font><br>
1768:
1.227 horacio 1769: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1770: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1771: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1772: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1773: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1774: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1775: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1776: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1777: <p>
1778:
1.247 jufi 1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1780: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1781: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1782: </strong></font><br>
1783:
1784: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1785: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1786: groups, and even Linux.
1787: <p>
1788:
1.247 jufi 1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1790: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1791: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1792: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1793: </strong></font><br>
1794:
1795: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1796: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1797: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1798: library after installing the OS.
1799: <p>
1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1802: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1803: Sys Admin, September 2000
1804: </strong></font><br>
1805:
1806: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1807: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1808: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1809: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1810: (<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>,
1811: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1812: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1813: <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 1814: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1815: out of the system.
1816: <p>
1817:
1.247 jufi 1818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1819: <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
1820: </strong></font><br>
1821:
1822: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1823: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1824: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1825: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1826: the IP filtering and address translation.
1827: <p>
1.301 jose 1828:
1829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1830: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1831: </strong></font><br>
1832:
1833: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1834: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1835: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1836: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1837: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1838: <p>
1.247 jufi 1839: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1840:
1.131 louis 1841: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1842: <ul>
1.131 louis 1843:
1.247 jufi 1844: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1845: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1846: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1847: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1848: </strong></font><br>
1849:
1850: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1851: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1852: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1853: <p>
1854:
1.247 jufi 1855: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1856: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1857: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1861: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1862: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1863: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1864: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1865: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1866: note of"</i>.
1867: <p>
1868:
1.247 jufi 1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1870: <a
1.247 jufi 1871: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1872: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1873: </strong></font><br>
1874:
1875: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1876: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1877: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1878: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1879: <p>
1880:
1.247 jufi 1881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1882: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1883: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1884: </strong></font><br>
1885:
1886: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1887: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1888: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1889: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1890: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1891: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1892: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1893: <p>
1894:
1.247 jufi 1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1896: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1897: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1898: 2000
1899: </strong></font><br>
1900:
1901: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1902: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1903: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1904: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1905: against current industry practices.
1906: <p>
1907:
1.247 jufi 1908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1909: <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
1910: </strong></font><br>
1911:
1912: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1913: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1914: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1918: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1919: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1920: </strong></font><br>
1921:
1922: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1923: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1924: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1925: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1926: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1927: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1928: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1929: <p>
1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1932: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1933: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1934: </strong></font><br>
1935:
1936: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1937: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1938: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1939: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1940: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1941: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1942: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1943: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1944: <p>
1.247 jufi 1945: </ul>
1.131 louis 1946:
1.118 louis 1947: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1948: <ul>
1.118 louis 1949:
1.247 jufi 1950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1951: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1952: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1953: </strong></font><br>
1954:
1955: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
1956: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
1957: about time. The article mentions that
1958: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
1959: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
1960: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 1961: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 1962: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
1963: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 1964: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 1965: <p>
1966:
1.247 jufi 1967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1968: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 1969: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
1973: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
1974: of OpenSSH.
1975: <p>
1976:
1.247 jufi 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1978: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1979: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 1980: </strong></font><br>
1981:
1982: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 1983: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 1984: bridging.
1985: <p>
1986:
1.247 jufi 1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 1988: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
1989: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 1990: </strong></font><br>
1991:
1.121 deraadt 1992: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
1993: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 1994: <p>
1995:
1.247 jufi 1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1997: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
1998: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
1999: </strong></font><br>
2000:
2001: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2002: <p>
2003:
1.247 jufi 2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2005: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2006: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2007: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2008: </strong></font><br>
2009:
1.120 deraadt 2010: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2011: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2012: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2013: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2014: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2015: <p>
2016:
1.247 jufi 2017: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2018: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2019: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2020: </strong></font><br>
2021:
1.222 miod 2022: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2023: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2024: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2025: protocols and their quirks.
2026: <p>
2027:
1.247 jufi 2028: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2029: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2030: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2031: </strong></font><br>
2032:
2033: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2034: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2035: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2036: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2037: <p>
2038:
1.247 jufi 2039: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2040: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2041: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2042: </strong></font><br>
2043:
2044: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2045: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2046: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2047: <p>
2048:
1.247 jufi 2049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2050: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2051: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2052: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2053: </strong></font><br>
2054:
2055: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2056: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2057: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2058: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2059: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2060: <p>
1.247 jufi 2061: </ul>
1.118 louis 2062:
1.104 louis 2063: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2064: <ul>
1.104 louis 2065:
1.247 jufi 2066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2067: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2068: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2069: </strong></font><br>
2070:
2071: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2072: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2073: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2074: be a bit dry.
2075: <p>
2076:
1.247 jufi 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2078: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2079: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2080: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2081: </strong></font><br>
2082: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2083: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2084: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2085: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2086: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2087: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2088: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2089: <p>
2090:
1.247 jufi 2091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2092: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2093: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2094: 2000
1.128 louis 2095: </strong></font><br>
2096:
2097: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2098: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2099: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2100: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2101: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2102: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2103: <p>
2104:
1.247 jufi 2105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2106: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2107: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2108: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2109:
2110: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2111: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2112: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2113: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2114: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2115: <p>
1.110 louis 2116:
1.247 jufi 2117: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2118: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2119: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2120: </strong></font><br>
2121:
2122: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2123: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2124: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2125: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2126: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2127: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2128: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2129: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2130: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2131: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2132: <p>
2133:
1.247 jufi 2134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2135: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2136: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2137:
2138: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2139: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2140: <p>
1.108 louis 2141:
1.247 jufi 2142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2143: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2144: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2145: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2146:
2147: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2148: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2149: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2150: <p>
1.106 louis 2151:
1.247 jufi 2152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2153: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2154: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2155: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2156:
2157: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2158: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2159: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2160: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2161: <p>
1.107 louis 2162:
1.247 jufi 2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2164: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2165: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2166: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2167:
2168: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2169: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2170: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2171: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2172: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2173: <p>
1.105 louis 2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2176: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2177: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2178: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2179:
1.113 naddy 2180: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2181: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2182: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2183: <p>
1.104 louis 2184:
1.247 jufi 2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2186: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2187: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2188: </strong></font><br>
2189:
2190: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2191: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2192: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2193: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2194: <p>
1.301 jose 2195:
2196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2197: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2198: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2199: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2200:
2201: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2202: hardware-supported cryptography.
2203: <p>
1.247 jufi 2204: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2205:
1.85 louis 2206: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2207: <ul>
1.85 louis 2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2210: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2211: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2212: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2213:
2214: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2215: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2216: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2217: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2218: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2219: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2220: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2221: <p>
1.99 louis 2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2224: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2225: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2226: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2227:
2228: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2229: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2230: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2231: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2232: <p>
1.100 louis 2233:
1.247 jufi 2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2235: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2236: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2237: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2238:
2239: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2240: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2241: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2242: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2243: <p>
1.95 louis 2244:
1.247 jufi 2245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2246: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2247: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2248: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2249:
2250: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2251: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2252: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2253: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2254: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2255: <p>
1.92 louis 2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2258: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2259: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2260: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2261:
2262: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2263: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2264: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2265: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2266: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2267: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2268: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2269: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2270: <p>
1.91 louis 2271:
1.247 jufi 2272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2273: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2274: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2275: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2276:
2277: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2278: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2279: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2280: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2281: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2282: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2283: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2284: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2285: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2286: <p>
1.90 louis 2287:
1.247 jufi 2288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2289: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2290: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2291: </strong></font><br>
2292: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2293: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2294: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2295: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2296: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2297: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2298: <p>
2299:
1.247 jufi 2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2301: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2302: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2303: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2304:
1.113 naddy 2305: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2306: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2307: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2308: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2309: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2310: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2311: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2312: <p>
1.87 louis 2313:
1.247 jufi 2314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2315: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2316: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2317: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2318:
2319: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2320: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2321: <p>
1.85 louis 2322:
1.247 jufi 2323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2324: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2325: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2326: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2327:
2328: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2329: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2330: <p>
2331:
2332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2333: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2334: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2335: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2336:
2337: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2338: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2339: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2340: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2341: <p>
1.89 louis 2342:
1.247 jufi 2343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2344: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2345: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2346: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2347:
2348: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2349: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2350: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2351: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2352: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2353: </ul>
1.85 louis 2354:
1.78 deraadt 2355: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2356: <ul>
1.74 louis 2357:
1.247 jufi 2358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2359: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2360: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2361: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2362: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2363:
2364: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2365: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2366: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2367: <p>
1.83 louis 2368:
1.247 jufi 2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2370: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2371: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2372: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2373:
2374: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2375: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2376: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2377: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2378: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2379: <p>
1.93 louis 2380:
1.247 jufi 2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2382: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2383: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2384: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2385: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2386:
1.83 louis 2387: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2388: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2389: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2390: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2391: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2392: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2393: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2394: <p>
1.82 aaron 2395:
1.247 jufi 2396: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2397: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2398: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2399: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2400:
1.83 louis 2401: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2402: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2403: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2404: <p>
1.80 louis 2405:
1.247 jufi 2406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2407: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2408: Bad Press</a>,
2409: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2410: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2411:
2412: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2413: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2414: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2415: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2416: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2417: <p>
1.247 jufi 2418: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2419:
2420: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2421: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2422:
1.247 jufi 2423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2424: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2425: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2426: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2427: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2428:
2429: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2430: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2431: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2432: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2433: <p>
1.74 louis 2434:
1.247 jufi 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2436: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2437: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2438: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2439:
1.219 horacio 2440: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2441: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2442: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2443: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2444: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2445: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2446: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2447: <p>
1.88 louis 2448:
1.247 jufi 2449: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2450: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2451: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2452: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2453:
2454: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2455: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2456: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2457: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2458: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2459: <p>
1.81 louis 2460:
1.247 jufi 2461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2462: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2463: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2464: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2465:
2466: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2467: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2468: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2469: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2470: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2471: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2472: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2473: <p>
1.90 louis 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2476: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2477: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2478: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2479:
2480: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2481: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2482: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2483: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2484: <p>
1.247 jufi 2485: </ul>
1.71 louis 2486:
1.69 deraadt 2487: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2488: <ul>
1.70 louis 2489:
1.247 jufi 2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2491: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2492: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2493: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2494:
2495: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2496: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2497: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2498: <p>
1.70 louis 2499:
1.247 jufi 2500: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2501: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2502: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2503: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2504:
2505: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2506: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2507: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2508: <p>
1.68 louis 2509:
1.247 jufi 2510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2511: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2512: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2513: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2514: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2515:
1.111 jufi 2516: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2517: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2518: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2519: "secure by default" installation.
2520: <p>
1.64 louis 2521:
1.247 jufi 2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2523: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2524: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2525: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2526:
1.113 naddy 2527: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2528: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2529: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2530: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2531: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2532: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2533: <p>
1.66 louis 2534:
1.247 jufi 2535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2536: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2537: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2538: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2539:
2540: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2541: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2542: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2543: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2544: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2545: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2546: <p>
1.83 louis 2547:
1.247 jufi 2548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2549: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2550: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2551: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2552:
2553: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2554: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2555: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2556: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2557: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2558: <p>
1.64 louis 2559:
1.247 jufi 2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2561: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2562: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2563: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2564:
2565: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2566: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2567: <p>
1.301 jose 2568:
2569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2570: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2571: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2572: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2573: </strong></font><br>
2574:
2575: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2576: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2577: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2578: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2579: Giving way to
2580: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2581: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2582: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2583: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2584: <p>
1.247 jufi 2585: </ul>
1.65 louis 2586:
1.69 deraadt 2587: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2588: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2589:
1.247 jufi 2590: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2591: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2592: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2593: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2594:
2595: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2596: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2597: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2598: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2599: <p>
1.88 louis 2600:
1.247 jufi 2601: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2602: <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 2603: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2604:
2605: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2606: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2607: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2608: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2609: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2610: <p>
1.60 louis 2611:
1.247 jufi 2612: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2613: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2614: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2615: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2616: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2617:
2618: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2619: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2620: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2621: <p>
1.58 louis 2622:
1.247 jufi 2623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2624: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2625: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2626:
2627: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2628: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2629: <p>
1.53 louis 2630:
1.247 jufi 2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2632: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2633: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2634: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2635:
2636: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2637: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2638: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2639: <p>
1.99 louis 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2642: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2643: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2644:
2645: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2646: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2647: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2648: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2649: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2650:
1.247 jufi 2651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2652: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2653: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2654: </strong></font><br>
2655:
2656: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2657: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2658: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2659: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2660: <p>
2661:
1.247 jufi 2662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2663: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2664: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2665: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2666:
2667: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2668: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2669: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2670:
1.247 jufi 2671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2672: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2673: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2674:
2675: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2676: in
1.247 jufi 2677: <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 2678: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2679: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2680: <p>
1.53 louis 2681:
1.247 jufi 2682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2683: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2684: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2685: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2686: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2687:
1.58 louis 2688: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2689: <p>
1.301 jose 2690:
2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2692: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2693: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2694: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2695: Informacyjny, January 2000
2696: </strong></font><br>
2697:
2698: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2699: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2700: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2701: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2702: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2703: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2704: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2705: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2706: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2707: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2708: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2709: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2710: <p>
2711:
2712: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2713: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2714: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2715: </strong></font><br>
2716:
2717: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2718: <p>
2719: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2720:
1.69 deraadt 2721: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2722: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2723:
1.247 jufi 2724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2725: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2726: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2727: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2728: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2729:
1.58 louis 2730: Kurt Seifried
2731: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2732: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2733: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2734: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2735:
1.247 jufi 2736: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2737: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2738: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2739: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2740:
2741: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2742: <p>
1.96 louis 2743:
1.247 jufi 2744: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2745: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2746: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2747: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2748: </strong></font><br>
2749:
2750: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2751: <p>
2752:
2753: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2754: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2755: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2756: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2757:
2758: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2759: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2760: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2761: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2762: <p>
1.247 jufi 2763: </ul>
1.86 louis 2764:
1.69 deraadt 2765: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2766: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2769: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2770: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2771: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2772:
2773: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2774: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2775: <p>
1.61 louis 2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2778: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2779: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2780: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2781: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2782:
2783: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2784: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2785: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2786: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2787: right -- or at least strives to".
2788: <p>
1.48 louis 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2791: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2792: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2793: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2794: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2795: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2796: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2797: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2798: <p>
1.61 louis 2799:
1.247 jufi 2800: <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 2801: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2802: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2803:
2804: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2805: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2806: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2807: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2808: <p>
1.46 louis 2809:
1.247 jufi 2810: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2811: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2812: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2813: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2814:
2815: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2816: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2817: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2818:
1.247 jufi 2819: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2820: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2821: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2822: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2823:
2824: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2825: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2826: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2827: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2828: <p>
1.247 jufi 2829: </ul>
1.70 louis 2830:
1.69 deraadt 2831: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2832: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2833:
1.247 jufi 2834: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2835: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2836: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2837: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2838: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2839:
2840: Kurt Seifried
2841: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2842: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2843: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2844: <p>
1.44 philen 2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <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 2847: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2848: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2849:
2850: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2851: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <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 2854: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2855: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2856:
2857: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2858: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2859:
1.247 jufi 2860: <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 2861: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2862: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2863:
2864: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2865: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2866: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2867: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2868: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <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 2871: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2872: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2873:
1.36 louis 2874: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2875: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2878: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2879: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2880: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2881:
2882: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2883: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2884: </ul>
1.38 louis 2885:
1.69 deraadt 2886: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2887: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2888:
1.247 jufi 2889: <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 2890: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2891: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2892:
2893: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2894: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2895: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2896:
1.113 naddy 2897: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2898: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2899: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2900: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2901:
2902: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2903: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2904: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2905: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2906: <blockquote>
2907: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2908: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2909: <br>
2910: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2911: </code>
2912: </blockquote>
2913: <p>
2914:
1.247 jufi 2915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2916: <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>
2917: <p>
2918:
2919: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2920: <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 2921: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2922:
2923: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2924: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2925: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2926: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2927:
1.247 jufi 2928: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2929: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
2930: Sept. 28, 1999
2931: </strong></font><br>
2932:
2933: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2934: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2935: translating and reprinting articles from
2936: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
2937: <p>
2938:
2939: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2940: <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 2941: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2942:
2943: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2944: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2945: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2946: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2947: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2948: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2949: <p>
1.19 louis 2950:
1.113 naddy 2951: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2952: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2953: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 2954:
2955: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
2956: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
2957: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 2958: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
2959: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 2960: <p>
1.16 louis 2961:
1.247 jufi 2962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2963: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 2964: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 2965: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 2966:
1.57 louis 2967: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
2968: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
2969: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 2970: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 2971:
1.247 jufi 2972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2973: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 2974: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 2975: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2976:
1.113 naddy 2977: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 2978:
1.247 jufi 2979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2980: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
2981: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2982: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 2983:
1.23 louis 2984: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
2985: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
2986: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
2987: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
2988: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 2989: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 2990:
1.247 jufi 2991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 2992: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
2993: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 2994: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 2995:
1.199 pvalchev 2996: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 2997: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
2998: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
2999: installation.
1.113 naddy 3000: <p>
1.47 louis 3001:
1.247 jufi 3002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3003: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3004: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3005: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3006:
1.301 jose 3007: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3008: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3009: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3010: </ul>
1.57 louis 3011:
1.69 deraadt 3012: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3013: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3014:
1.247 jufi 3015: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3016: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3017: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3018: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3019:
3020: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3021: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3022: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3023: <p>
1.12 louis 3024:
1.247 jufi 3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3026: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3027: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3028: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3029:
3030: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3031: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3032: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3033: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3034: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3035: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3036: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3037: <p>
1.247 jufi 3038: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3039:
1.69 deraadt 3040: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3041: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3042:
1.247 jufi 3043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3044: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3045: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3046:
3047: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3048: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3049: available."
1.113 naddy 3050: <p>
1.301 jose 3051:
3052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3053: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3054: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3055: </strong></font><br>
3056:
3057: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3058: <p>
1.247 jufi 3059: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3060:
1.69 deraadt 3061: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3062: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3065: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3066: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3067:
3068: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3069: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3070: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3071: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3072: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3073: <p>
1.33 louis 3074:
1.247 jufi 3075: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3076: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3077: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3078: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3079:
1.113 naddy 3080: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3081: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3082: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3083: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3084: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3085: <p>
1.247 jufi 3086: </ul>
1.57 louis 3087:
1.69 deraadt 3088: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3089: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3092: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3093: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3094: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3095:
3096: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3097: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3098: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3101: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3102: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3103: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3104: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3105:
3106: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3107: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3108:
1.247 jufi 3109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3110: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3111:
1.113 naddy 3112: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3113:
1.247 jufi 3114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3115: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3116: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3117: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3118:
3119: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3120: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3121: </ul>
1.23 louis 3122:
1.69 deraadt 3123: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3124: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3125:
1.247 jufi 3126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3127: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3128: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3129:
3130: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3131: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3132: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3133:
1.247 jufi 3134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3135: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3136: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3137: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3138:
3139: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3140: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3141: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3142: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3143: </ul>
1.57 louis 3144:
1.69 deraadt 3145: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3146: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3147:
1.247 jufi 3148: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3149: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3150: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3151: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3152:
3153: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3154: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3155: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3156: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3157: <p>
1.15 louis 3158:
1.247 jufi 3159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3160: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3161: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3162: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3163:
3164: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3165: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3166: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3167: columns."
1.113 naddy 3168: <p>
1.247 jufi 3169: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3170:
1.69 deraadt 3171: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3172: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3173:
1.247 jufi 3174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3175: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3176: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3177: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3178:
3179: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3180: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3181:
1.113 naddy 3182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3183: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3184: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3185:
3186: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3187: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3188: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3189: </ul>
1.57 louis 3190:
1.69 deraadt 3191: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3192: <ul>
1.301 jose 3193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3194: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3195: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3196: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3197:
3198: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3199: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3200: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3201: <p>
3202:
3203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3204: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3205: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3206: Nov 13, 1998 and
3207: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3208: Datateknik</a>,
3209: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3210:
3211: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3212: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3213: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3214: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3215: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3216:
1.113 naddy 3217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3218: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3219: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3220: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3221:
1.222 miod 3222: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3223: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3224: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3225: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3226: <p>
1.247 jufi 3227: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3228:
1.69 deraadt 3229: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3230: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3233: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3234: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3235:
1.69 deraadt 3236: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3237: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3238: <p>
1.247 jufi 3239: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3240:
1.69 deraadt 3241: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3242: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3243:
1.247 jufi 3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3245: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3246: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3247: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3248:
3249: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3250: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3251: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3252:
1.247 jufi 3253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3254: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3255: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3256: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3257: <p>
1.247 jufi 3258: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3259:
1.69 deraadt 3260: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3261: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3264: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3265: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3266: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3267: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3268: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3269:
3270: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3271: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3272: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3273: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3274: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3275: <p>
1.247 jufi 3276: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3277:
3278: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3279: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3280:
1.247 jufi 3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3282: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3283: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3284:
1.69 deraadt 3285: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3286: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3287: <p>
1.112 naddy 3288:
1.247 jufi 3289: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3290: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3291:
1.292 camield 3292: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3293: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3294: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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