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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.253 ian 19: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
20: <ul>
1.255 ian 21:
1.260 ian 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ! ian 23: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
! 24: April 24, 2003.
! 25: </strong></font><br>
! 26: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
! 27: the free software community".
! 28: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
! 29: other articles.
! 30: <p>
! 31:
! 32: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 33: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/24/politics/24HACK.html?ex=1051761600&en=87a56d5c962b64e4&ei=5062">Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
! 34: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
! 35: </strong></font><br>
! 36: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
! 37: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
! 38: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
! 39: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
! 40: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
! 41: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
! 42: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
! 43: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
! 44: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
! 45: <br/>
! 46: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
! 47: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
! 48: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
! 49: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
! 50: <p>
! 51:
! 52: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 53: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
! 54: Wired, April 24, 2003.
! 55: </strong></font><br>
! 56: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
! 57: article above.
! 58: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
! 59: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
! 60: wasting them."
! 61: <p>
! 62:
! 63: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 64: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
65: </strong></font><br>
66: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 70: <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.
71: </strong></font><br>
72: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
73: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
74: <p>
75:
76: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 77: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
78: April 23, 2003.
79: </strong></font><br>
80: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 84: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 85: April 22, 2003.
86: </strong></font><br>
87: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
88: <p>
89:
90: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 91: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
92: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
93: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 94: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 95: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
96: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
97: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
98: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
99: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
100: Can also be found online at:
101: <ul>
102: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
103: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 104: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
105: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 106: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
108: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 109: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
110: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 111: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 112: </ul>
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 116: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
117: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 118: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 119: </strong></font><br>
120: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 121: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
122: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
123: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
124: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
125: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
126: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 127: <p>
128:
129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 130: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
131: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 132: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
133: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 134: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
135: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
136: at UPenn and DARPA.
137: <p>
138:
139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 140: [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
141: April 18, 2003.
142: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 143: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 147: [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 148: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 149: </strong></font><br>
150: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 154: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
155: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
156: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 157: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 158: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
159: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
160: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
161: <p>
162:
163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 164: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
165: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 166: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 167: </strong></font><br>
168: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
169: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
170: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 171: American century.
1.267 deraadt 172: <p>
173:
174: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 175: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
176: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 177: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 178: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 179: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
180: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
181: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
182: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
183: Can also be found online at:
184: <ul>
185: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
186: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 187: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 188: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 189: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 190: <p>
191:
192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 193: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 194: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 195: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 196: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 197: </strong></font><br>
198: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 199: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
200: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
201: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
202: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
205: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
206: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
207: New York Times.
208: </strong></font>(free registration required)
209:
1.273 deraadt 210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
211: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 212: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 213: ABC News.
214: </strong></font>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 217: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 218: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 219: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 220: </strong></font>
221:
222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 223: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 224: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 225: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 226: </strong></font>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 229: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
230: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 231: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 232: </strong></font>
233:
234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 235: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 236: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 237: Times Daily, AL.
238: </strong></font>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
241: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
242: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
243: Boston.com, MA.
244: </strong></font>
245:
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 247: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 248: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 249: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
250: </strong></font>
251:
252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 253: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
254: [Article was pulled]</a>
255: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 256: </strong></font>
257:
258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
259: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
260: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
261: Infoshop News.
262: </strong></font>
263:
264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
265: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
266: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
267: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
268: </strong></font>
269:
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 271: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
272: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
273: Raleigh News, NC.
274: </strong></font>
275:
276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 277: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
278: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
279: Napa News, CA.
280: </strong></font>
281:
282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 283: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 284: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
285: NEPA News, PA.
286: </strong></font>
287:
288: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
289: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
290: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
291: Wired News.
292: </strong></font>
293:
1.271 deraadt 294: </ul>
295: <p>
1.272 deraadt 296: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
297: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 298: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
299: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
300: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
301: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
302: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
303: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 304: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 305: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
306: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
307: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 308: <p>
309: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 310:
311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 312: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 313: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
314: Indianapolis Star, IN.
315: </strong></font>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 318: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
319: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
320: Miami Herald, FL.
321: </strong></font>
322:
323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 324: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 325: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
326: </strong></font>
327:
328: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
329: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 330: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 331: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 332: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 333:
334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
335: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
336: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
337: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
338: ABC News.
339: </strong></font>
340:
1.276 deraadt 341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 343: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 344: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 345: </strong></font>
346:
1.286 dhartmei 347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 348: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 349: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
350: Wilmington Star, NC.
351: </strong></font>
352:
1.300 jose 353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
354: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
355: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
356: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
357: </strong></font>
358:
1.309 jose 359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
360: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
361: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
362: Globe Technology.
363: </strong></font>
364:
1.263 deraadt 365: </ul>
1.262 beck 366: <p>
367:
368: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 369: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
370: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 371: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 372: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 373: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 374: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
375: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 379: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
380: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
381: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 382: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 383: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
384: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
385: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
386: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
387: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
388: and simply restates other press reports.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 392: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
393: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
394: OS News, April 18, 2003.
395: </strong></font><br>
396: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
397: <p>
398:
399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 400: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
401: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 402: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 403: </strong></font><br>
404: Another report on the DARPA funding.
405: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
406: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
407: <p>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 410: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
411: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 412: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 413: </strong></font><br>
414: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
415: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
416: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
417: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
418: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
419: Goes on to say:
420: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
421: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
422: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
423: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 424: This article is also found online at:
425: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
427: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
428: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
429: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 430: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
432: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
433: ZDnet</a>,
434: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 435: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
437: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
438: ZDnet Australia</a>,
439: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 440: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 441: </ul>
1.260 ian 442: <p>
1.279 deraadt 443:
1.260 ian 444: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 445: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 446: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 447: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 448: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 449: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 450: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
451: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
452: without notice or justification.
453: <p>
454:
455: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 456: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 457: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 458: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 459: </strong></font><br>
460: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
461: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 462: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 463: effective today, without any warning..."
464: <p>
1.257 ian 465:
466: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 467: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
468: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 469: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 470: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 471: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
472: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
473: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
474: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
475: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 476: <p>
477:
478: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 479: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
480: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 481: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 482: </strong></font><br>
483: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
484: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
485: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
486: quoting two of them:
487: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
488: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
489: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
490: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
491: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
492: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
493: <p>
494:
1.255 ian 495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 496: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
497: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 498: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 499: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 500: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 501: <p>
502:
503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 504: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-13.04.03-000/">OpenBSD mit neuem Sicherheitskonzept</a>, Heise News-Ticker,
1.306 deraadt 505: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 506: </strong></font><br>
507: New security concepts in OpenBSD
508: <p>
509:
510: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 511: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
512: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 513: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 514: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 515: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 516: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
517: security experts for more than three decades."
518: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
519: <p>
1.261 ian 520:
1.254 drahn 521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 522: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 523: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 524: </strong></font><br>
525: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 529: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
530: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
531: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
532: </strong></font><br>
533: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
534: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
535: discussion OpenBSD's path.
536: <p>
537:
538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 539: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
540: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 541: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 542: </strong></font><br>
543: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
544: from US DARPA.
545: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
546: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
547: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
548: the BSD license.
549: <p>
550: </ul>
551:
1.251 ian 552: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
553: <ul>
554:
555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 556: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
557: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
558: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
559: </strong></font><br>
560:
561: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
562: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
563: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
564: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
565: <p>
566:
567: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 568: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
569: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 570: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 571: </strong></font><br>
572: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
573: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
574: Mentions
575: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
576: and
577: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
578: programs.
579: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 580: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 581: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
582: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
583: <p>
1.260 ian 584:
585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
586: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
587: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
588: </strong></font><br>
589: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
590: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
591: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
592: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
593: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
594: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
595: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
596: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
597: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
598: put into service."
599: <p>
600: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
601: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
602: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
603: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
604: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
605: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
606: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
607: computers with security features."
608: <p>
1.251 ian 609: </ul>
610:
1.249 jufi 611: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
612: <ul>
613: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
614: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
615: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 616: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 617: </strong></font><br>
618: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
619: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 620: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 621: <p>
622: </ul>
623:
1.246 jufi 624: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 625: <ul>
1.246 jufi 626:
1.247 jufi 627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 628: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 629: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
630: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 631: </strong></font><br>
632: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
633: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
634: <p>
635:
1.247 jufi 636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 637: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
638: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
639: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
640: </strong></font><br>
641: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
642: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
643: <p>
644:
645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 646: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 647: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
648: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 649: </strong></font><br>
650: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
651: in their annual OpenHack security test.
652: <p>
1.247 jufi 653: </ul>
1.246 jufi 654:
1.244 jufi 655: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 656: <ul>
1.246 jufi 657:
1.247 jufi 658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 659: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
660: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
661: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 662: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 663: </strong></font><br>
664: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
665: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
666: md5 digests.
667: <p>
668:
1.247 jufi 669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 670: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 671: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
672: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 673: </strong></font><br>
674: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
675: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
676: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
677: right the first time."
678: <p>
1.247 jufi 679: </ul>
1.244 jufi 680:
681:
682: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 683: <ul>
1.244 jufi 684:
1.247 jufi 685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 686: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 687: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
688: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 689: </strong></font><br>
690: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
691: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
692: part 6</a>.
693: <p>
694:
1.247 jufi 695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 696: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 697: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
698: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 699: </strong></font><br>
700: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
701: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
702: <p>
1.301 jose 703:
704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
705: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
706: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
707: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
708: </strong></font><br>
709:
710: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
711: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
712: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
713: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
714: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
715: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
716: <i>Here's the
717: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
718: <p>
1.247 jufi 719: </ul>
1.242 jufi 720:
721: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 722: <ul>
1.242 jufi 723:
1.247 jufi 724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 725: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 726: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
727: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 728: </strong></font><br>
729: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
730: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
731: <p>
732:
1.247 jufi 733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 734: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 735: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
736: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 737: </strong></font><br>
738: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
739: this time using pf.
740: <p>
1.247 jufi 741: </ul>
1.242 jufi 742:
743: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 744: <ul>
1.242 jufi 745:
1.247 jufi 746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 747: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 748: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
749: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 750: </strong></font><br>
751: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
752: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
753: their rotation.
754: <p>
755:
1.247 jufi 756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 757: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 758: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
759: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 760: </strong></font><br>
761: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
762: <p>
1.247 jufi 763: </ul>
1.242 jufi 764:
1.239 jufi 765: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 766: <ul>
1.239 jufi 767:
1.247 jufi 768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 769: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 770: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
771: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 772: </strong></font><br>
773: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
774: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
775: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
776: <p>
777:
1.247 jufi 778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 779: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 780: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
781: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 782: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 783: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
784: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
785: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 786: <p>
1.247 jufi 787: </ul>
1.239 jufi 788:
1.235 lebel 789: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 790: <ul>
1.235 lebel 791:
1.239 jufi 792:
1.247 jufi 793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 794: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 795: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
796: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 797: </strong></font><br>
798: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
799: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
800: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
801: <p>
1.301 jose 802:
1.247 jufi 803: </ul>
1.235 lebel 804:
1.228 horacio 805: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 806: <ul>
1.228 horacio 807:
1.247 jufi 808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 809: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 810: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
811: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 812: </strong></font><br>
813: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
814: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
815: <p>
816:
1.247 jufi 817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 818: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 819: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
820: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 821: </strong></font><br>
822: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
823: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
824: <p>
825:
1.247 jufi 826: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 827: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 828: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
829: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 830: </strong></font><br>
831: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
832: on the desktop of his parents.
833: <p>
834:
1.247 jufi 835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 836: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 837: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
838: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 839: </strong></font><br>
840: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
841: using IPFilter.
842:
843: <p>
844:
1.247 jufi 845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 846: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 847: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
848: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 849: </strong></font><br>
850: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
851: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
852: perspectives of the four OS.
853: <br>
854: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 855: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 856: <p>
857:
1.247 jufi 858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 859: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
860: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 861: software and security</a>,
862: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 863: </strong></font><br>
864:
865: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
866: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
867: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
868: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
869: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
870: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
871: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
872: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
873: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
874: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
875: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
876: security conscious team beyond doubt.
877: <p>
1.247 jufi 878: </ul>
1.228 horacio 879:
1.225 horacio 880: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 881: <ul>
1.225 horacio 882:
1.247 jufi 883: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 884: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
885: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 886: Interview</a>,
887: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 888: </strong></font><br>
889:
890: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
891: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
892: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 893: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 894: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
895: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
896: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
897: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
898: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 899: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 900: of choice.
901: <p>
1.247 jufi 902: </ul>
1.225 horacio 903:
904: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 905: <ul>
1.225 horacio 906:
1.247 jufi 907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 908: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 909: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
910: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 911: </strong></font><br>
912:
913: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
914: <p>
915:
1.247 jufi 916: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 917: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 918: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
919: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 920: </strong></font><br>
921:
922: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
923: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
924: <p>
1.247 jufi 925: </ul>
1.225 horacio 926:
1.218 horacio 927: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 928: <ul>
1.218 horacio 929:
1.247 jufi 930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 931: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 932: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
933: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 934: </strong></font><br>
935:
936: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
937: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
938: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
939: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
940: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
941: subjects. Worth a read.
942: <p>
943:
944:
1.247 jufi 945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 946: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 947: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
948: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 949: </strong></font><br>
950:
951: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
952: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
953: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
954: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
955: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
956: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
957: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
958: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
959: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 960: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 961: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
962: on other operating systems.<br>
963: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
964: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
965: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
966: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
967: <p>
968:
1.247 jufi 969: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 970: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 971: Operating System 2010</a>,
972: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 973: </strong></font><br>
974:
975: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
976: covering the level of software integration into the core
977: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
978: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
979: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
980: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
981: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
982: <p>
983:
1.247 jufi 984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 985: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 986: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
987: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 988: </strong></font><br>
989:
990: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
991: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
992: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
993: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
994: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
995: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
996: <p>
1.247 jufi 997: </ul>
1.221 horacio 998:
1.210 jufi 999: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1000: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1001:
1.247 jufi 1002: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1003: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1004: Already a Contender</a>,
1005: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1006: </strong></font><br>
1007:
1008: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1009: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1010: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1011: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1012: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1013: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1014: <p>
1015:
1.247 jufi 1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1017: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1018: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1019: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1020: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1021:
1.224 horacio 1022: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1023: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1024: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1025: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1026: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1027: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1028: <p>
1.247 jufi 1029: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1030:
1031: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1032: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1033:
1.247 jufi 1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1035: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1036: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1037: Division</a>,
1038: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1039: </strong></font><br>
1040:
1041: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1042: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1043: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1044: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1045: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1046: investment</em>.<br>
1047: The implementation details can be seen on their
1048: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1049: <p>
1050:
1.247 jufi 1051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1052: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1053: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1054: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1055: </strong></font><br>
1056:
1057: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1058: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1059: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1060: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1061: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1062: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1063: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1064: <p>
1065:
1066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1067: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1068: Thinking about Security</a>,
1069: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1070: </strong></font><br>
1071:
1072: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1073: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1074: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1075: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1076: to time.<br>
1077: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1078: system and just the most secure system.
1079: <p>
1080:
1.247 jufi 1081: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1082: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1083: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1084: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1085: </strong></font><br>
1086:
1087: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1088: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1089: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1090: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1091: choice:<br>
1092: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1093: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1094: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1095: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1096: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1097: network security devices and as such must be well
1098: armored."</em><br>
1099: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1100: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1101: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1102: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1103: <br>
1104: Bravo!
1105: <p>
1.247 jufi 1106: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1107:
1.207 ian 1108: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1109: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1110:
1.247 jufi 1111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1112: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1113: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1114: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1115:
1.207 ian 1116: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1117: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1118: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1119: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1120: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1121: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1122: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1123: <p>
1.247 jufi 1124: </ul>
1.207 ian 1125:
1.194 jufi 1126: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1127: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1130: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1131: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1132: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1133: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1134:
1.240 miod 1135: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1136: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1137: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1138: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1139: <p>
1140:
1.247 jufi 1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1142: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1143: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1144: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1145:
1146: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1147: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1148: <p>
1149:
1150: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1151: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1152: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1153: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1154:
1155: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1156: <p>
1157:
1158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1159: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1160: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1161: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1162: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1163:
1.240 miod 1164: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1165: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1166: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1167: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1168: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1169: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1170: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1171: <br>
1172: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1173: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1174: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1175: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1176: <p>
1177:
1.247 jufi 1178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1179: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1180: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1181: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1182: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1183:
1.194 jufi 1184: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1185: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1186: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1187: <br>
1188: The new
1189: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1190: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1191: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1192: <p>
1.247 jufi 1193: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1194:
1.190 horacio 1195: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1196: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1197:
1.247 jufi 1198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1199:
1200: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1201: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1202:
1.301 jose 1203:
1.191 jufi 1204: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1205: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1206:
1207: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1208: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1209:
1.212 horacio 1210: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1211: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1212: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1213:
1.211 horacio 1214: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1215: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1216: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1217:
1.247 jufi 1218: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1219: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1220:
1.247 jufi 1221: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1222: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1223:
1.212 horacio 1224: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1225: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1226: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1227:
1228: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1229: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1230:
1231: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1232: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1233:
1.301 jose 1234: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1235: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1236:
1.191 jufi 1237: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1238: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1239:
1240: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1241: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1242:
1.192 jufi 1243: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1244: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1245: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1246:
1.193 deraadt 1247: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1248: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1249: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1250:
1.247 jufi 1251: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1252: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1253:
1.247 jufi 1254: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1255: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1256: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1257:
1.213 horacio 1258: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1259: 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 1260: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1261:
1.190 horacio 1262: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1263: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1264: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1265: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1266: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1267: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1268: <p>
1.190 horacio 1269:
1.247 jufi 1270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1271: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1272: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1273: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1274: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1275:
1.195 jufi 1276: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1277: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1278: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1279: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1280: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1281: <p>
1282:
1.247 jufi 1283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1284: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1285: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1286: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1287: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1288:
1.191 jufi 1289: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1290: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1291: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1292: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1293: <p>
1294:
1295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1296: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1297: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1298: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1299:
1300: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1301: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1302: <p>
1.247 jufi 1303: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1304:
1.191 jufi 1305:
1.186 jufi 1306: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1307: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1308:
1.247 jufi 1309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1310: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1311: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1312: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1313: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1314:
1.188 jufi 1315: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1316: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1317: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1318: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1319: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1320: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1321: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1322: <p>
1323:
1.301 jose 1324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1325: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1326: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1327: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1328:
1329: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1330: <p>
1.191 jufi 1331:
1.247 jufi 1332: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1333: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1334: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1335: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1336: </strong></font><br>
1337:
1338: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1339: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1340: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1341: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1342: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1343: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1344: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1345: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1346: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1347: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1348: familiar?
1349: <p>
1.247 jufi 1350: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1351:
1.178 louis 1352: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1353: <ul>
1.178 louis 1354:
1.247 jufi 1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1356: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1357: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1358: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1359: </strong></font><br>
1360:
1361: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1362: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1363: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1364: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1365: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1366: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1367: <p>
1368:
1.247 jufi 1369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1370: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1371: Open source under the hood</a>,
1372: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1373: </strong></font><br>
1374:
1375: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1376: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1377: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1378: <p>
1379:
1.247 jufi 1380: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1381: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1382: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1383: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1384: </strong></font><br>
1385:
1386: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1387: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1388: <p>
1.247 jufi 1389: </ul>
1.179 louis 1390:
1.174 louis 1391:
1.175 louis 1392: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1393: <ul>
1.175 louis 1394:
1.247 jufi 1395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1396: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1397: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1398: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1399: </strong></font><br>
1400:
1401: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1402: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1403: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1404: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1405: <p>
1406:
1.247 jufi 1407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1408: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1409: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1410: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1411: </strong></font><br>
1412:
1413: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1414: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1415: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1416: <p>
1.247 jufi 1417: </ul>
1.175 louis 1418:
1.176 louis 1419:
1.172 mickey 1420: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1421: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1422:
1.247 jufi 1423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1424: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1425: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1426: </strong></font><br>
1427:
1428: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1429: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1430: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1431: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1432: <p>
1433:
1.247 jufi 1434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1435: <a
1.269 deraadt 1436: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1437: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1438: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1439: </strong></font><br>
1440:
1441: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1442: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1443: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1444: <p>
1445:
1.247 jufi 1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1447: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1448: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1449: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1450: </strong></font><br>
1451:
1452: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1453: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1454: <p>
1455:
1.247 jufi 1456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1457: <a
1.269 deraadt 1458: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1459: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1460: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1461: </strong></font><br>
1462:
1463: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1464: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1465: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1466: our own Theo de Raadt.
1467: <p>
1468:
1.247 jufi 1469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1470: <a
1.269 deraadt 1471: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1472: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1473: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1474: </strong></font><br>
1475:
1476: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1477: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1478: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1479: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1480: shut down.]
1481: <p>
1482:
1.247 jufi 1483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1484: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1485: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1486: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1487: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1488: </strong></font><br>
1489:
1490: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1491: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1492: <p>
1.247 jufi 1493: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1494:
1.161 louis 1495: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1496: <ul>
1.161 louis 1497:
1.247 jufi 1498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1499: <a
1.269 deraadt 1500: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1501: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1502: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1503: </strong></font><br>
1504:
1505: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1506: by John Wolley
1507: <p>
1508:
1.247 jufi 1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1510: <a
1.269 deraadt 1511: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1512: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1513: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1514: </strong></font><br>
1515:
1516: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1517: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1518: OpenBSD).
1519: <p>
1520:
1.247 jufi 1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1522: <a
1.247 jufi 1523: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1524: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1525: </strong></font><br>
1526:
1527: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1528: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1529: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1530: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1531: and hindsight.
1532: <p>
1533:
1.247 jufi 1534: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1535: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1536: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1537: </strong></font><br>
1538:
1539: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1540: <p>
1541:
1.247 jufi 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1543: <a
1.168 provos 1544: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1545: December 7, 2000
1546: </strong></font><br>
1547:
1548: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1549: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1550: us explain.
1551: <p>
1552:
1.247 jufi 1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1554: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1555: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1556: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1557: December 6, 2000
1558: </strong></font><br>
1559:
1560: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1561: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1562: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1563: <p>
1564:
1.247 jufi 1565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1566: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1567: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1568: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1569: </strong></font><br>
1570:
1571: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1572: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1573: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1574: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1575: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1576: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1577: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1578: <p>
1579:
1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1581: <a
1.226 horacio 1582: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1583: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1584: </strong></font><br>
1585:
1586: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1587: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1588: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1589: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1590: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1591: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1592: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1593: <p>
1.162 millert 1594:
1.247 jufi 1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1596: <a
1.161 louis 1597: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1598: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1599: </strong></font><br>
1600:
1601: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1602: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1603: <p>
1604:
1.247 jufi 1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1606: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1607: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1608: </strong></font><br>
1609:
1610: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1611: <p>
1612:
1613:
1.247 jufi 1614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1615: <a
1.226 horacio 1616: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1617: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1618: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1619: </strong></font><br>
1620:
1621: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1622: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1623: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1624: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1625: <p>
1.247 jufi 1626: </ul>
1.169 louis 1627:
1.158 louis 1628: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1629: <ul>
1.147 louis 1630:
1.247 jufi 1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1632: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1633: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1634: </strong></font><br>
1635:
1636: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1637: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1638: <p>
1639:
1.247 jufi 1640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1641: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1642: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1643: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1644: </strong></font><br>
1645: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1646: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1647: <p>
1648:
1.247 jufi 1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1650: <a
1651: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1652: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1653: </strong></font><br>
1654:
1655: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1656: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1657: <p>
1658:
1.247 jufi 1659: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1660: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1661: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1662: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1663:
1.213 horacio 1664: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1665: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1666: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1667: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1668: <p>
1.215 horacio 1669:
1.247 jufi 1670: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1671: <a
1672: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1673: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1674: </strong></font><br>
1675:
1676: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1677: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1678: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1679: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1680: much of the attitude too).
1681: <p>
1.161 louis 1682:
1.247 jufi 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1684: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1685: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1686: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1687:
1.157 louis 1688: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1689: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1690: <p>
1.247 jufi 1691: </ul>
1.157 louis 1692:
1693: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1694: <ul>
1.157 louis 1695:
1.247 jufi 1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1697: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1698: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1699: </strong></font><br>
1700:
1701: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1702: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1703: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1704: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1705: <p>
1706:
1.247 jufi 1707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1708: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1709: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1710: </strong></font><br>
1711:
1712: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1713: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1714: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1715: it because they love coding...
1716: <p>
1717:
1.247 jufi 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1719: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1720: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1724: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1725: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1726: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1727: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1728: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1729: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1730: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1731: <p>
1732:
1.247 jufi 1733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1734: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1735: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1736: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1737: </strong></font><br>
1738:
1739: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1740: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1741: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1742: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1743: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1744: the pizza.
1745: <p>
1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1748: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1749: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1750: </strong></font><br>
1751:
1752: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1753: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1754: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1755: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1756: problems.
1757: <p>
1758:
1.247 jufi 1759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1760: <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 1761: </strong></font><br>
1762:
1.222 miod 1763: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1764: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1765: - whether they like it or not.
1766: <p>
1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1769: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1770: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1771: </strong></font><br>
1772:
1773: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1774: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1775: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1776: <p>
1.148 aaron 1777:
1.247 jufi 1778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1779: <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 1780: </strong></font><br>
1781:
1782: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1783: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1784: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1785: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1786: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1787: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1788: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1789: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1790: <p>
1791:
1.247 jufi 1792: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1793: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1794: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1795: </strong></font><br>
1796:
1797: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1798: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1799: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1800: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1801: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1802: <p>
1.247 jufi 1803: </ul>
1.147 louis 1804:
1.138 louis 1805: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1806: <ul>
1.138 louis 1807:
1.247 jufi 1808: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1809: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1810: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1811: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1812: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1813: </strong></font><br>
1814:
1.227 horacio 1815: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1816: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1817: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1818: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1819: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1820: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1821: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1822: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1823: <p>
1824:
1.247 jufi 1825: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1826: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1827: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1828: </strong></font><br>
1829:
1830: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1831: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1832: groups, and even Linux.
1833: <p>
1834:
1.247 jufi 1835: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1836: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1837: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 1838: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
1839: </strong></font><br>
1840:
1841: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
1842: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
1843: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
1844: library after installing the OS.
1845: <p>
1846:
1.247 jufi 1847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1848: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 1849: Sys Admin, September 2000
1850: </strong></font><br>
1851:
1852: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
1853: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
1854: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
1855: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 1856: (<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>,
1857: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
1858: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
1859: <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 1860: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 1861: out of the system.
1862: <p>
1863:
1.247 jufi 1864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 1865: <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
1866: </strong></font><br>
1867:
1868: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 1869: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
1870: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
1871: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
1872: the IP filtering and address translation.
1873: <p>
1.301 jose 1874:
1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1876: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
1877: </strong></font><br>
1878:
1879: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
1880: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
1881: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
1882: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
1883: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
1884: <p>
1.247 jufi 1885: </ul>
1.200 niklas 1886:
1.131 louis 1887: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1888: <ul>
1.131 louis 1889:
1.247 jufi 1890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1891: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
1892: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
1893: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 1894: </strong></font><br>
1895:
1896: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
1897: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
1898: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
1899: <p>
1900:
1.247 jufi 1901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 1902: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
1903: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
1904: </strong></font><br>
1905:
1906: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
1907: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
1908: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
1909: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
1910: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
1911: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
1912: note of"</i>.
1913: <p>
1914:
1.247 jufi 1915: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 1916: <a
1.247 jufi 1917: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 1918: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
1919: </strong></font><br>
1920:
1921: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
1922: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
1923: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
1924: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
1925: <p>
1926:
1.247 jufi 1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 1928: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 1929: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
1930: </strong></font><br>
1931:
1932: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
1933: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
1934: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
1935: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
1936: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
1937: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
1938: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
1939: <p>
1940:
1.247 jufi 1941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 1942: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
1943: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
1944: 2000
1945: </strong></font><br>
1946:
1947: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
1948: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
1949: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
1950: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
1951: against current industry practices.
1952: <p>
1953:
1.247 jufi 1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 1955: <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
1956: </strong></font><br>
1957:
1958: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
1959: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
1960: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
1961: <p>
1962:
1.247 jufi 1963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 1964: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
1965: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
1966: </strong></font><br>
1967:
1968: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
1969: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
1970: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
1971: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
1972: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
1973: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
1974: careful code reviews, he concludes.
1975: <p>
1976:
1.247 jufi 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 1978: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
1979: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
1980: </strong></font><br>
1981:
1982: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
1983: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
1984: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
1985: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
1986: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 1987: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
1988: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
1989: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 1990: <p>
1.247 jufi 1991: </ul>
1.131 louis 1992:
1.118 louis 1993: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1994: <ul>
1.118 louis 1995:
1.247 jufi 1996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 1997: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
1998: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
1999: </strong></font><br>
2000:
2001: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2002: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2003: about time. The article mentions that
2004: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2005: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2006: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2007: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2008: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2009: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2010: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2011: <p>
2012:
1.247 jufi 2013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2014: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2015: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2016: </strong></font><br>
2017:
2018: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2019: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2020: of OpenSSH.
2021: <p>
2022:
1.247 jufi 2023: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2024: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2025: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2026: </strong></font><br>
2027:
2028: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2029: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2030: bridging.
2031: <p>
2032:
1.247 jufi 2033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2034: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2035: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2036: </strong></font><br>
2037:
1.121 deraadt 2038: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2039: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2040: <p>
2041:
1.247 jufi 2042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2043: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2044: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2045: </strong></font><br>
2046:
2047: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2048: <p>
2049:
1.247 jufi 2050: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2051: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2052: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2053: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2054: </strong></font><br>
2055:
1.120 deraadt 2056: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2057: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2058: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2059: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2060: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2061: <p>
2062:
1.247 jufi 2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2064: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2065: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2066: </strong></font><br>
2067:
1.222 miod 2068: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2069: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2070: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2071: protocols and their quirks.
2072: <p>
2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2075: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2076: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2077: </strong></font><br>
2078:
2079: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2080: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2081: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2082: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2083: <p>
2084:
1.247 jufi 2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2086: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2087: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2088: </strong></font><br>
2089:
2090: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2091: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2092: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2093: <p>
2094:
1.247 jufi 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2096: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2097: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2098: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2099: </strong></font><br>
2100:
2101: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2102: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2103: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2104: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2105: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2106: <p>
1.247 jufi 2107: </ul>
1.118 louis 2108:
1.104 louis 2109: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2110: <ul>
1.104 louis 2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2113: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2114: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2115: </strong></font><br>
2116:
2117: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2118: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2119: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2120: be a bit dry.
2121: <p>
2122:
1.247 jufi 2123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2124: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2125: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2126: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2127: </strong></font><br>
2128: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2129: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2130: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2131: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2132: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2133: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2134: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2135: <p>
2136:
1.247 jufi 2137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2138: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2139: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2140: 2000
1.128 louis 2141: </strong></font><br>
2142:
2143: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2144: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2145: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2146: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2147: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2148: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2149: <p>
2150:
1.247 jufi 2151: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2152: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2153: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2154: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2155:
2156: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2157: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2158: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2159: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2160: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2161: <p>
1.110 louis 2162:
1.247 jufi 2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2164: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2165: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2166: </strong></font><br>
2167:
2168: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2169: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2170: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2171: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2172: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2173: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2174: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2175: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2176: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2177: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2178: <p>
2179:
1.247 jufi 2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2181: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2182: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2183:
2184: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2185: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2186: <p>
1.108 louis 2187:
1.247 jufi 2188: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2189: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2190: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2191: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2192:
2193: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2194: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2195: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2196: <p>
1.106 louis 2197:
1.247 jufi 2198: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2199: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2200: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2201: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2202:
2203: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2204: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2205: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2206: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2207: <p>
1.107 louis 2208:
1.247 jufi 2209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2210: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2211: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2212: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2213:
2214: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2215: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2216: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2217: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2218: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2219: <p>
1.105 louis 2220:
1.247 jufi 2221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2222: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2223: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2224: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2225:
1.113 naddy 2226: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2227: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2228: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2229: <p>
1.104 louis 2230:
1.247 jufi 2231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2232: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2233: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2234: </strong></font><br>
2235:
2236: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2237: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2238: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2239: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2240: <p>
1.301 jose 2241:
2242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2243: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2244: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2245: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2246:
2247: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2248: hardware-supported cryptography.
2249: <p>
1.247 jufi 2250: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2251:
1.85 louis 2252: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2253: <ul>
1.85 louis 2254:
1.247 jufi 2255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2256: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2257: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2258: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2259:
2260: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2261: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2262: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2263: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2264: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2265: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2266: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2267: <p>
1.99 louis 2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2270: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2271: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2272: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2273:
2274: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2275: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2276: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2277: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2278: <p>
1.100 louis 2279:
1.247 jufi 2280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2281: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2282: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2283: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2284:
2285: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2286: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2287: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2288: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2289: <p>
1.95 louis 2290:
1.247 jufi 2291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2292: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2293: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2294: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2295:
2296: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2297: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2298: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2299: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2300: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2301: <p>
1.92 louis 2302:
1.247 jufi 2303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2304: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2305: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2306: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2307:
2308: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2309: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2310: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2311: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2312: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2313: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2314: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2315: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2316: <p>
1.91 louis 2317:
1.247 jufi 2318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2319: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2320: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2321: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2322:
2323: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2324: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2325: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2326: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2327: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2328: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2329: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2330: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2331: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2332: <p>
1.90 louis 2333:
1.247 jufi 2334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2335: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2336: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2337: </strong></font><br>
2338: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2339: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2340: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2341: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2342: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2343: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2344: <p>
2345:
1.247 jufi 2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2347: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2348: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2349: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2350:
1.113 naddy 2351: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2352: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2353: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2354: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2355: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2356: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2357: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2358: <p>
1.87 louis 2359:
1.247 jufi 2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2361: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2362: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2363: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2364:
2365: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2366: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2367: <p>
1.85 louis 2368:
1.247 jufi 2369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2370: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2371: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2372: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2373:
2374: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2375: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2376: <p>
2377:
2378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2379: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2380: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2381: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2382:
2383: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2384: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2385: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2386: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2387: <p>
1.89 louis 2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2390: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2391: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2392: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2393:
2394: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2395: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2396: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2397: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2398: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2399: </ul>
1.85 louis 2400:
1.78 deraadt 2401: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2402: <ul>
1.74 louis 2403:
1.247 jufi 2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2405: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2406: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2407: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2408: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2409:
2410: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2411: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2412: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2413: <p>
1.83 louis 2414:
1.247 jufi 2415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2416: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2417: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2418: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2419:
2420: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2421: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2422: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2423: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2424: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2425: <p>
1.93 louis 2426:
1.247 jufi 2427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2428: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2429: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2430: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2431: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2432:
1.83 louis 2433: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2434: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2435: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2436: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2437: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2438: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2439: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2440: <p>
1.82 aaron 2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2443: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2444: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2445: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2446:
1.83 louis 2447: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2448: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2449: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2450: <p>
1.80 louis 2451:
1.247 jufi 2452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2453: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2454: Bad Press</a>,
2455: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2456: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2457:
2458: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2459: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2460: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2461: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2462: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2463: <p>
1.247 jufi 2464: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2465:
2466: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2467: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2468:
1.247 jufi 2469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2470: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2471: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2472: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2473: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2474:
2475: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2476: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2477: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2478: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2479: <p>
1.74 louis 2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2482: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2483: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2484: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2485:
1.219 horacio 2486: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2487: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2488: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2489: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2490: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2491: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2492: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2493: <p>
1.88 louis 2494:
1.247 jufi 2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2496: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2497: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2498: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2499:
2500: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2501: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2502: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2503: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2504: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2505: <p>
1.81 louis 2506:
1.247 jufi 2507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2508: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2509: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2510: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2511:
2512: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2513: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2514: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2515: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2516: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2517: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2518: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2519: <p>
1.90 louis 2520:
1.247 jufi 2521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2522: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2523: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2524: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2525:
2526: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2527: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2528: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2529: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2530: <p>
1.247 jufi 2531: </ul>
1.71 louis 2532:
1.69 deraadt 2533: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2534: <ul>
1.70 louis 2535:
1.247 jufi 2536: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2537: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2538: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2539: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2540:
2541: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2542: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2543: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2544: <p>
1.70 louis 2545:
1.247 jufi 2546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2547: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2548: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2549: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2550:
2551: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2552: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2553: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2554: <p>
1.68 louis 2555:
1.247 jufi 2556: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2557: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2558: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2559: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2560: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2561:
1.111 jufi 2562: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2563: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2564: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2565: "secure by default" installation.
2566: <p>
1.64 louis 2567:
1.247 jufi 2568: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2569: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2570: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2571: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2572:
1.113 naddy 2573: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2574: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2575: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2576: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2577: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2578: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2579: <p>
1.66 louis 2580:
1.247 jufi 2581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2582: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2583: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2584: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2585:
2586: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2587: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2588: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2589: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2590: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2591: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2592: <p>
1.83 louis 2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2595: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2596: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2597: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2598:
2599: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2600: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2601: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2602: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2603: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2604: <p>
1.64 louis 2605:
1.247 jufi 2606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2607: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2608: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2609: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2610:
2611: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2612: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2613: <p>
1.301 jose 2614:
2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2616: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2617: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2618: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2619: </strong></font><br>
2620:
2621: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2622: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2623: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2624: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2625: Giving way to
2626: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2627: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2628: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2629: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2630: <p>
1.247 jufi 2631: </ul>
1.65 louis 2632:
1.69 deraadt 2633: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2634: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2637: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2638: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2639: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2640:
2641: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2642: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2643: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2644: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2645: <p>
1.88 louis 2646:
1.247 jufi 2647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2648: <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 2649: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2650:
2651: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2652: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2653: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2654: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2655: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2656: <p>
1.60 louis 2657:
1.247 jufi 2658: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2659: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2660: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2661: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2662: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2663:
2664: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2665: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2666: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2667: <p>
1.58 louis 2668:
1.247 jufi 2669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2670: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2671: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2672:
2673: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2674: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2675: <p>
1.53 louis 2676:
1.247 jufi 2677: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2678: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2679: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2680: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2681:
2682: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2683: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2684: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2685: <p>
1.99 louis 2686:
1.247 jufi 2687: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2688: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2689: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2690:
2691: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2692: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2693: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2694: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2695: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2696:
1.247 jufi 2697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2698: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2699: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2700: </strong></font><br>
2701:
2702: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2703: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2704: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2705: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2706: <p>
2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2709: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2710: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2711: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2712:
2713: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2714: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2715: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2716:
1.247 jufi 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2718: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2719: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2720:
2721: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2722: in
1.247 jufi 2723: <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 2724: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2725: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2726: <p>
1.53 louis 2727:
1.247 jufi 2728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2729: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2730: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2731: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2733:
1.58 louis 2734: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2735: <p>
1.301 jose 2736:
2737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2738: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2739: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2740: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2741: Informacyjny, January 2000
2742: </strong></font><br>
2743:
2744: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2745: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2746: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2747: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2748: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2749: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2750: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2751: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2752: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2753: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2754: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2755: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2756: <p>
2757:
2758: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2759: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2760: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2761: </strong></font><br>
2762:
2763: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2764: <p>
2765: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2766:
1.69 deraadt 2767: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2768: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2769:
1.247 jufi 2770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2771: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2772: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2773: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2774: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2775:
1.58 louis 2776: Kurt Seifried
2777: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2778: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2779: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2780: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2781:
1.247 jufi 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2783: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2784: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2785: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2786:
2787: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2788: <p>
1.96 louis 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2791: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2792: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2793: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2794: </strong></font><br>
2795:
2796: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2797: <p>
2798:
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2800: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2801: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2802: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2803:
2804: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2805: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2806: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2807: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2808: <p>
1.247 jufi 2809: </ul>
1.86 louis 2810:
1.69 deraadt 2811: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2812: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2813:
1.247 jufi 2814: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2815: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2816: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2817: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2818:
2819: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2820: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2821: <p>
1.61 louis 2822:
1.247 jufi 2823: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2824: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2825: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2826: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2827: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2828:
2829: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2830: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2831: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2832: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2833: right -- or at least strives to".
2834: <p>
1.48 louis 2835:
1.247 jufi 2836: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2837: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
2838: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2839: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2840: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
2841: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
2842: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
2843: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 2844: <p>
1.61 louis 2845:
1.247 jufi 2846: <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 2847: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 2848: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 2849:
2850: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
2851: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
2852: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
2853: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 2854: <p>
1.46 louis 2855:
1.247 jufi 2856: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 2857: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
2858: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2859: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2860:
2861: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
2862: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 2863: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 2864:
1.247 jufi 2865: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 2866: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
2867: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 2868: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2869:
2870: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
2871: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
2872: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
2873: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 2874: <p>
1.247 jufi 2875: </ul>
1.70 louis 2876:
1.69 deraadt 2877: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2878: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2879:
1.247 jufi 2880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2881: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
2882: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 2883: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 2884: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 2885:
2886: Kurt Seifried
2887: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2888: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
2889: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 2890: <p>
1.44 philen 2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <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 2893: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 2894: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 2895:
2896: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 2897: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 2898:
1.247 jufi 2899: <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 2900: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 2901: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 2902:
2903: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 2904: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <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 2907: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 2908: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 2909:
2910: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
2911: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
2912: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
2913: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 2914: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 2915:
1.247 jufi 2916: <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 2917: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 2918: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 2919:
1.36 louis 2920: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 2921: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 2924: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
2925: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 2926: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2927:
2928: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 2929: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 2930: </ul>
1.38 louis 2931:
1.69 deraadt 2932: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2933: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <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 2936: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 2937: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 2938:
2939: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
2940: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 2941: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 2942:
1.113 naddy 2943: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 2944: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 2945: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 2946: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 2947:
2948: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
2949: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 2950: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
2951: terminal:
1.113 naddy 2952: <blockquote>
2953: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
2954: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
2955: <br>
2956: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
2957: </code>
2958: </blockquote>
2959: <p>
2960:
1.247 jufi 2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2962: <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>
2963: <p>
2964:
2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2966: <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 2967: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 2968:
2969: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
2970: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 2971: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 2972: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2975: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
2976: Sept. 28, 1999
2977: </strong></font><br>
2978:
2979: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2980: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2981: translating and reprinting articles from
2982: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
2983: <p>
2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 2986: <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 2987: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 2988:
2989: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
2990: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
2991: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
2992: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
2993: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 2994: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 2995: <p>
1.19 louis 2996:
1.113 naddy 2997: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 2998: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 2999: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3000:
3001: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3002: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3003: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3004: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3005: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3006: <p>
1.16 louis 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3009: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3010: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3011: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3012:
1.57 louis 3013: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3014: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3015: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3016: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3017:
1.247 jufi 3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3019: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3020: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3021: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3022:
1.113 naddy 3023: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3024:
1.247 jufi 3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3026: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3027: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3028: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3029:
1.23 louis 3030: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3031: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3032: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3033: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3034: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3035: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3036:
1.247 jufi 3037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3038: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3039: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3040: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3041:
1.199 pvalchev 3042: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3043: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3044: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3045: installation.
1.113 naddy 3046: <p>
1.47 louis 3047:
1.247 jufi 3048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3049: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3050: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3051: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3052:
1.301 jose 3053: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3054: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3055: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3056: </ul>
1.57 louis 3057:
1.69 deraadt 3058: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3059: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3060:
1.247 jufi 3061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3062: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3063: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3064: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3065:
3066: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3067: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3068: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3069: <p>
1.12 louis 3070:
1.247 jufi 3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3072: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3073: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3074: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3075:
3076: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3077: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3078: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3079: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3080: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3081: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3082: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3083: <p>
1.247 jufi 3084: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3085:
1.69 deraadt 3086: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3087: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3088:
1.247 jufi 3089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3090: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3091: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3092:
3093: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3094: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3095: available."
1.113 naddy 3096: <p>
1.301 jose 3097:
3098: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3099: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3100: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3101: </strong></font><br>
3102:
3103: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3104: <p>
1.247 jufi 3105: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3106:
1.69 deraadt 3107: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3108: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3109:
1.247 jufi 3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3111: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3112: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3113:
3114: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3115: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3116: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3117: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3118: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3119: <p>
1.33 louis 3120:
1.247 jufi 3121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3122: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3123: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3124: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3125:
1.113 naddy 3126: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3127: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3128: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3129: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3130: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3131: <p>
1.247 jufi 3132: </ul>
1.57 louis 3133:
1.69 deraadt 3134: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3135: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3136:
1.247 jufi 3137: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3138: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3139: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3140: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3141:
3142: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3143: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3144: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3145:
1.247 jufi 3146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3147: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3148: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3149: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3150: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3151:
3152: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3153: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3154:
1.247 jufi 3155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3156: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3157:
1.113 naddy 3158: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3159:
1.247 jufi 3160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3161: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3162: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3163: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3164:
3165: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3166: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3167: </ul>
1.23 louis 3168:
1.69 deraadt 3169: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3170: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3171:
1.247 jufi 3172: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3173: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3174: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3175:
3176: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3177: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3178: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3181: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3182: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3183: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3184:
3185: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3186: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3187: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3188: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3189: </ul>
1.57 louis 3190:
1.69 deraadt 3191: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3192: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3193:
1.247 jufi 3194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3195: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3196: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3197: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3198:
3199: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3200: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3201: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3202: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3203: <p>
1.15 louis 3204:
1.247 jufi 3205: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3206: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3207: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3208: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3209:
3210: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3211: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3212: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3213: columns."
1.113 naddy 3214: <p>
1.247 jufi 3215: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3216:
1.69 deraadt 3217: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3218: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3219:
1.247 jufi 3220: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3221: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3222: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3223: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3224:
3225: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3226: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3227:
1.113 naddy 3228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3229: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3230: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3231:
3232: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3233: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3234: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3235: </ul>
1.57 louis 3236:
1.69 deraadt 3237: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3238: <ul>
1.301 jose 3239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3240: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3241: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3242: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3243:
3244: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3245: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3246: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3247: <p>
3248:
3249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3250: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3251: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3252: Nov 13, 1998 and
3253: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3254: Datateknik</a>,
3255: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3256:
3257: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3258: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3259: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3260: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3261: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3262:
1.113 naddy 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3264: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3265: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3266: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3267:
1.222 miod 3268: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3269: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3270: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3271: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3272: <p>
1.247 jufi 3273: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3274:
1.69 deraadt 3275: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3276: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3277:
1.247 jufi 3278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3279: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3280: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3281:
1.69 deraadt 3282: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3283: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3284: <p>
1.247 jufi 3285: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3286:
1.69 deraadt 3287: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3288: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3289:
1.247 jufi 3290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3291: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3292: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3293: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3294:
3295: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3296: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3297: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3298:
1.247 jufi 3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3300: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3301: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3302: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3303: <p>
1.247 jufi 3304: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3305:
1.69 deraadt 3306: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3307: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3308:
1.247 jufi 3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3310: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3311: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3312: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3313: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3314: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3315:
3316: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3317: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3318: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3319: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3320: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3321: <p>
1.247 jufi 3322: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3323:
3324: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3325: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3326:
1.247 jufi 3327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3328: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3329: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3330:
1.69 deraadt 3331: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3332: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3333: <p>
1.112 naddy 3334:
1.247 jufi 3335: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3336: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3337:
1.292 camield 3338: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3339: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3340: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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