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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.253 ian 19: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
20: <ul>
1.255 ian 21:
1.260 ian 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 24: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
25: TechRepublic,
26: April 28, 2003.
27: </strong></font><br>
28: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
29: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 30: work.<br>
31: Can also be found online at:
32: <ul>
33: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
34: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
35: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
36: ZDNet UK.
37: </strong></font>
38: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 39: <p>
40:
41: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 42: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
43: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
44: IDG,
45: April 24, 2003.
46: </strong></font><br>
47: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
48: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
49: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
50: Can also be found online at:
51: <ul>
52: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
53: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
54: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
55: Infoworld.
56: </strong></font>
57: </ul>
58: <p>
59:
60: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
61: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 62: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 63: Slate,
64: April 24, 2003.
65: </strong></font><br>
66: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
67: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
68: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
69: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
70: <p>
71:
72: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 73: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
74: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
75: April 24, 2003.
76: </strong></font><br>
77: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
78: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
79: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
80: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
81: <p>
82:
83: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 84: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
85: April 24, 2003.
86: </strong></font><br>
87: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
88: the free software community".
89: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
90: other articles.
91: <p>
92:
93: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
94: <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>,
95: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
96: </strong></font><br>
97: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
98: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
99: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
100: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
101: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
102: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
103: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
104: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
105: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
106: <br/>
107: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
108: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
109: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
110: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 111: <br>
112: Can also be found online at:
113: <ul>
114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
115: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
116: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
117: Common Dreams NewsCenter
118: </strong></font>
119: </ul>
1.324 ian 120: <p>
121:
122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
123: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
124: Wired, April 24, 2003.
125: </strong></font><br>
126: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
127: article above.
128: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
129: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
130: wasting them."
1.332 ian 131: <br>
132: Can also be found online at:
133: <ul>
134: <li>
135: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
136: </strong></font>
137: </ul>
1.324 ian 138: <p>
139:
140: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 141: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
142: </strong></font><br>
143: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 147: <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.
148: </strong></font><br>
149: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
150: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
151: <p>
152:
153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 154: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
155: April 23, 2003.
156: </strong></font><br>
157: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
158: <p>
159:
160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 161: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 162: April 22, 2003.
163: </strong></font><br>
164: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
165: <p>
166:
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 168: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
169: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
170: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 171: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 172: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
173: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
174: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
175: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
176: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
177: Can also be found online at:
178: <ul>
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
180: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 181: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
182: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 183: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 184: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
185: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 186: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
187: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 188: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 189: </ul>
190: <p>
191:
192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 193: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
194: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 195: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 196: </strong></font><br>
197: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 198: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
199: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
200: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
201: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
202: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
203: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 204: <p>
205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 207: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
208: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 209: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
210: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 211: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
212: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
213: at UPenn and DARPA.
214: <p>
215:
216: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 217: [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
218: April 18, 2003.
219: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 220: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 221: <p>
222:
223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 224: [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 225: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 226: </strong></font><br>
227: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
228: <p>
229:
230: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 231: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
232: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
233: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 234: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 235: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
236: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
237: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
238: <p>
239:
240: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 241: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
242: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 243: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 244: </strong></font><br>
245: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
246: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
247: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 248: American century.
1.267 deraadt 249: <p>
250:
251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 252: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
253: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 254: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 255: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 256: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
257: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
258: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
259: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
260: Can also be found online at:
261: <ul>
262: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
263: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 264: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 265: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 266: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 267: <p>
268:
269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 270: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 271: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 272: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 273: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 274: </strong></font><br>
275: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 276: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
277: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
278: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
279: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 280:
281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
282: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
283: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
284: New York Times.
285: </strong></font>(free registration required)
286:
1.273 deraadt 287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
288: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 289: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 290: ABC News.
291: </strong></font>
292:
293: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 294: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 295: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 296: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 297: </strong></font>
298:
299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 300: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 301: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 302: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 303: </strong></font>
304:
305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 306: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
307: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 308: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 309: </strong></font>
310:
311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 312: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 313: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 314: Times Daily, AL.
315: </strong></font>
316:
317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
318: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
319: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
320: Boston.com, MA.
321: </strong></font>
322:
323: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 324: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 325: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 326: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
327: </strong></font>
328:
329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 330: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
331: [Article was pulled]</a>
332: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 333: </strong></font>
334:
335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
336: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
337: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
338: Infoshop News.
339: </strong></font>
340:
341: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
342: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
343: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
344: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
345: </strong></font>
346:
347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 348: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
349: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
350: Raleigh News, NC.
351: </strong></font>
352:
353: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 354: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
355: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
356: Napa News, CA.
357: </strong></font>
358:
359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 360: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 361: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
362: NEPA News, PA.
363: </strong></font>
364:
365: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
366: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
367: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
368: Wired News.
369: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 370: <br>
371: <li>
1.333 deraadt 372: <font color="#009000"><strong>
373: [JAPANESE]
374: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
375: Wired News Japan</a>
376: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 377:
1.271 deraadt 378: </ul>
379: <p>
1.272 deraadt 380: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
381: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 382: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
383: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
384: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
385: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
386: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
387: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 388: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 389: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
390: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
391: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 392: <p>
393: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 394:
395: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 396: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 397: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
398: Indianapolis Star, IN.
399: </strong></font>
400:
401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 402: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
403: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
404: Miami Herald, FL.
405: </strong></font>
406:
407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 408: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 409: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
410: </strong></font>
411:
412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
413: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 414: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 415: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 416: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 417:
418: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
419: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
420: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
421: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
422: ABC News.
423: </strong></font>
424:
1.276 deraadt 425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
426: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 427: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 428: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 429: </strong></font>
430:
1.286 dhartmei 431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 432: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 433: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
434: Wilmington Star, NC.
435: </strong></font>
436:
1.300 jose 437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
438: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
439: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
440: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
441: </strong></font>
442:
1.309 jose 443: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
444: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
445: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
446: Globe Technology.
447: </strong></font>
448:
1.263 deraadt 449: </ul>
1.262 beck 450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 453: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
454: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 455: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 456: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 457: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 458: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
459: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
460: <p>
461:
462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 463: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
464: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
465: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 466: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 467: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
468: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
469: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
470: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
471: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
472: and simply restates other press reports.
473: <p>
474:
475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 476: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
477: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
478: OS News, April 18, 2003.
479: </strong></font><br>
480: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 484: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
485: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 486: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 487: </strong></font><br>
488: Another report on the DARPA funding.
489: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
490: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
491: <p>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 494: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
495: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
496: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
497: April 17, 2003.
498: </strong></font><br>
499: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
500: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
501: Tech Anthems</a>
502: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
503: 4 so far.
504: <p>
505:
506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 507: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
508: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 509: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 510: </strong></font><br>
511: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
512: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
513: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
514: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
515: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
516: Goes on to say:
517: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
518: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
519: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
520: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 521: This article is also found online at:
522: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
524: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
525: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
526: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 527: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
529: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
530: ZDnet</a>,
531: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 532: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 533: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
534: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
535: ZDnet Australia</a>,
536: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 537: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 538: </ul>
1.260 ian 539: <p>
1.279 deraadt 540:
1.260 ian 541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 542: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 543: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 544: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 545: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 546: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 547: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
548: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
549: without notice or justification.
550: <p>
551:
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 553: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 554: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 555: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 556: </strong></font><br>
557: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
558: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 559: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 560: effective today, without any warning..."
561: <p>
1.257 ian 562:
563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 564: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
565: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 566: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 567: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 568: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
569: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
570: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
571: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
572: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 573: <p>
574:
575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 576: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
577: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 578: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 579: </strong></font><br>
580: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
581: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
582: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
583: quoting two of them:
584: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
585: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
586: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
587: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
588: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
589: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
590: <p>
591:
1.255 ian 592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 593: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
594: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 595: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 596: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 597: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 598: <p>
599:
600: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 601: [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 602: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 603: </strong></font><br>
604: New security concepts in OpenBSD
605: <p>
606:
607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 608: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
609: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 610: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 611: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 612: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 613: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
614: security experts for more than three decades."
615: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
616: <p>
1.261 ian 617:
1.254 drahn 618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 619: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 620: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 621: </strong></font><br>
622: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
623: <p>
624:
625: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 626: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
627: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
628: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
629: </strong></font><br>
630: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
631: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
632: discussion OpenBSD's path.
633: <p>
634:
635: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 636: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
637: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 638: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 639: </strong></font><br>
640: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
641: from US DARPA.
642: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
643: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
644: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
645: the BSD license.
646: <p>
647: </ul>
648:
1.251 ian 649: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
650: <ul>
651:
652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 653: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
654: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
655: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
656: </strong></font><br>
657:
658: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
659: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
660: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
661: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
662: <p>
663:
664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 665: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
666: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 667: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 668: </strong></font><br>
669: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
670: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
671: Mentions
672: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
673: and
674: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
675: programs.
676: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 677: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 678: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
679: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
680: <p>
1.325 ian 681: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
682: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 683:
684: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
685: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
686: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
687: </strong></font><br>
688: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
689: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
690: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
691: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
692: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
693: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
694: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
695: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
696: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
697: put into service."
698: <p>
699: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
700: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
701: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
702: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
703: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
704: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
705: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
706: computers with security features."
707: <p>
1.329 ian 708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
710: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
711: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
712: Slate,
713: March 3, 2003.
714: </strong></font><br>
715: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
716: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
717: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
718: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
719: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
720: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
721: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
722: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
723: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
724: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
725: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
726: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
727: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
728: of more secure open-source solutions like
729: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
730: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
731: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
732: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
733: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
734: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
735: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
736: the Beltway."
737: <p>
1.251 ian 738: </ul>
739:
1.249 jufi 740: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
741: <ul>
742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
743: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
744: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 745: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 746: </strong></font><br>
747: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
748: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 749: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 750: <p>
1.334 ! ian 751:
! 752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 753: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
! 754: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
! 755: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
! 756: </strong></font><br>
! 757: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
! 758: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
! 759: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
! 760: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
! 761: "... the hypothetical question ...
! 762: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
! 763: <br>
! 764: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
! 765: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
! 766: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
! 767: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
! 768: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
! 769: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
! 770: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD<a>) that currently help
! 771: support network security.
! 772: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
! 773: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
! 774: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
! 775: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
! 776: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
! 777: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
! 778: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
! 779: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
! 780: <br>
! 781: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
! 782: <p>
! 783:
1.249 jufi 784: </ul>
785:
1.246 jufi 786: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 787: <ul>
1.246 jufi 788:
1.247 jufi 789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 790: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 791: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
792: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 793: </strong></font><br>
794: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
795: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
796: <p>
797:
1.247 jufi 798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 799: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
800: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
801: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
802: </strong></font><br>
803: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
804: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
805: <p>
806:
807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 808: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 809: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
810: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 811: </strong></font><br>
812: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
813: in their annual OpenHack security test.
814: <p>
1.247 jufi 815: </ul>
1.246 jufi 816:
1.244 jufi 817: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 818: <ul>
1.246 jufi 819:
1.247 jufi 820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 821: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
822: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
823: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 824: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 825: </strong></font><br>
826: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
827: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
828: md5 digests.
829: <p>
830:
1.247 jufi 831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 832: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 833: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
834: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 835: </strong></font><br>
836: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
837: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
838: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
839: right the first time."
840: <p>
1.247 jufi 841: </ul>
1.244 jufi 842:
843:
844: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 845: <ul>
1.244 jufi 846:
1.247 jufi 847: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 848: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 849: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
850: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 851: </strong></font><br>
852: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
853: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
854: part 6</a>.
855: <p>
856:
1.247 jufi 857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 858: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 859: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
860: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 861: </strong></font><br>
862: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
863: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
864: <p>
1.301 jose 865:
866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
867: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
868: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
869: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
870: </strong></font><br>
871:
872: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
873: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
874: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
875: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
876: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
877: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
878: <i>Here's the
879: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
880: <p>
1.247 jufi 881: </ul>
1.242 jufi 882:
883: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 884: <ul>
1.242 jufi 885:
1.247 jufi 886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 887: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 888: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
889: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 890: </strong></font><br>
891: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
892: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
893: <p>
894:
1.247 jufi 895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 896: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 897: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
898: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 899: </strong></font><br>
900: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
901: this time using pf.
902: <p>
1.247 jufi 903: </ul>
1.242 jufi 904:
905: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 906: <ul>
1.242 jufi 907:
1.247 jufi 908: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 909: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 910: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
911: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 912: </strong></font><br>
913: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
914: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
915: their rotation.
916: <p>
917:
1.247 jufi 918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 919: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 920: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
921: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 922: </strong></font><br>
923: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
924: <p>
1.247 jufi 925: </ul>
1.242 jufi 926:
1.239 jufi 927: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 928: <ul>
1.239 jufi 929:
1.247 jufi 930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 931: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 932: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
933: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 934: </strong></font><br>
935: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
936: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
937: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
938: <p>
939:
1.247 jufi 940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 941: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 942: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
943: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 944: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 945: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
946: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
947: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 948: <p>
1.247 jufi 949: </ul>
1.239 jufi 950:
1.235 lebel 951: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 952: <ul>
1.235 lebel 953:
1.239 jufi 954:
1.247 jufi 955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 956: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 957: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
958: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 959: </strong></font><br>
960: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
961: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
962: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
963: <p>
1.301 jose 964:
1.247 jufi 965: </ul>
1.235 lebel 966:
1.228 horacio 967: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 968: <ul>
1.228 horacio 969:
1.247 jufi 970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 971: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 972: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
973: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 974: </strong></font><br>
975: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
976: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
977: <p>
978:
1.247 jufi 979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 980: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 981: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
982: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 983: </strong></font><br>
984: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
985: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
986: <p>
987:
1.247 jufi 988: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 989: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 990: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
991: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 992: </strong></font><br>
993: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
994: on the desktop of his parents.
995: <p>
996:
1.247 jufi 997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 998: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 999: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1000: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1001: </strong></font><br>
1002: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1003: using IPFilter.
1004:
1005: <p>
1006:
1.247 jufi 1007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1008: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1009: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1010: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1011: </strong></font><br>
1012: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1013: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1014: perspectives of the four OS.
1015: <br>
1016: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1017: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1018: <p>
1019:
1.247 jufi 1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1021: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1022: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1023: software and security</a>,
1024: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1025: </strong></font><br>
1026:
1027: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1028: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1029: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1030: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1031: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1032: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1033: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1034: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1035: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1036: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1037: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1038: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1039: <p>
1.247 jufi 1040: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1041:
1.225 horacio 1042: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1043: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1044:
1.247 jufi 1045: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1046: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1047: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1048: Interview</a>,
1049: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1050: </strong></font><br>
1051:
1052: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1053: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1054: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1055: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1056: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1057: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1058: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1059: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1060: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1061: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1062: of choice.
1063: <p>
1.247 jufi 1064: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1065:
1066: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1067: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1068:
1.247 jufi 1069: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1070: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1071: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1072: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1073: </strong></font><br>
1074:
1075: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1076: <p>
1077:
1.247 jufi 1078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1079: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1080: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1081: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1082: </strong></font><br>
1083:
1084: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1085: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1086: <p>
1.247 jufi 1087: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1088:
1.218 horacio 1089: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1090: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1091:
1.247 jufi 1092: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1093: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1094: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1095: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1096: </strong></font><br>
1097:
1098: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1099: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1100: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1101: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1102: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1103: subjects. Worth a read.
1104: <p>
1105:
1106:
1.247 jufi 1107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1108: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1109: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1110: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1111: </strong></font><br>
1112:
1113: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1114: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1115: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1116: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1117: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1118: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1119: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1120: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1121: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1122: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1123: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1124: on other operating systems.<br>
1125: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1126: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1127: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1128: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.247 jufi 1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1132: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1133: Operating System 2010</a>,
1134: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1135: </strong></font><br>
1136:
1137: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1138: covering the level of software integration into the core
1139: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1140: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1141: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1142: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1143: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1144: <p>
1145:
1.247 jufi 1146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1147: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1148: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1149: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1150: </strong></font><br>
1151:
1152: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1153: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1154: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1155: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1156: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1157: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1158: <p>
1.247 jufi 1159: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1160:
1.210 jufi 1161: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1162: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1163:
1.247 jufi 1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1165: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1166: Already a Contender</a>,
1167: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1168: </strong></font><br>
1169:
1170: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1171: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1172: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1173: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1174: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1175: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1176: <p>
1177:
1.247 jufi 1178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1179: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1180: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1181: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1182: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1183:
1.224 horacio 1184: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1185: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1186: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1187: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1188: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1189: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1190: <p>
1.247 jufi 1191: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1192:
1193: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1194: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1195:
1.247 jufi 1196: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1197: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1198: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1199: Division</a>,
1200: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1201: </strong></font><br>
1202:
1203: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1204: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1205: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1206: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1207: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1208: investment</em>.<br>
1209: The implementation details can be seen on their
1210: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1211: <p>
1212:
1.247 jufi 1213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1214: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1215: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1216: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1217: </strong></font><br>
1218:
1219: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1220: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1221: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1222: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1223: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1224: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1225: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1226: <p>
1227:
1228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1229: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1230: Thinking about Security</a>,
1231: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1232: </strong></font><br>
1233:
1234: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1235: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1236: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1237: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1238: to time.<br>
1239: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1240: system and just the most secure system.
1241: <p>
1242:
1.247 jufi 1243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1244: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1245: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1246: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1247: </strong></font><br>
1248:
1249: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1250: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1251: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1252: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1253: choice:<br>
1254: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1255: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1256: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1257: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1258: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1259: network security devices and as such must be well
1260: armored."</em><br>
1261: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1262: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1263: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1264: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1265: <br>
1266: Bravo!
1267: <p>
1.247 jufi 1268: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1269:
1.207 ian 1270: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1271: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1272:
1.247 jufi 1273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1274: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1275: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1276: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1277:
1.207 ian 1278: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1279: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1280: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1281: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1282: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1283: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1284: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1285: <p>
1.247 jufi 1286: </ul>
1.207 ian 1287:
1.194 jufi 1288: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1289: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1290:
1.247 jufi 1291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1292: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1293: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1294: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1295: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1296:
1.240 miod 1297: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1298: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1299: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1300: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1301: <p>
1302:
1.247 jufi 1303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1304: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1305: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1306: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1307:
1308: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1309: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1310: <p>
1311:
1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1313: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1314: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1315: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1316:
1317: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1318: <p>
1319:
1320: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1321: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1322: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1323: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1324: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1325:
1.240 miod 1326: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1327: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1328: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1329: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1330: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1331: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1332: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1333: <br>
1334: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1335: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1336: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1337: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1338: <p>
1339:
1.247 jufi 1340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1341: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1342: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1343: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1344: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1345:
1.194 jufi 1346: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1347: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1348: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1349: <br>
1350: The new
1351: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1352: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1353: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1354: <p>
1.247 jufi 1355: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1356:
1.190 horacio 1357: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1358: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1359:
1.247 jufi 1360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1361:
1362: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1363: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1364:
1.301 jose 1365:
1.191 jufi 1366: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1367: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1368:
1369: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1370: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1371:
1.212 horacio 1372: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1373: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1374: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1375:
1.211 horacio 1376: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1377: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1378: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1379:
1.247 jufi 1380: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1381: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1382:
1.247 jufi 1383: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1384: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1385:
1.212 horacio 1386: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1387: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1388: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1389:
1390: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1391: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1392:
1393: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1394: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1395:
1.301 jose 1396: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1397: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1398:
1.191 jufi 1399: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1400: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1401:
1402: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1403: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1404:
1.192 jufi 1405: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1406: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1407: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1408:
1.193 deraadt 1409: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1410: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1411: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1412:
1.247 jufi 1413: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1414: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1415:
1.247 jufi 1416: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1417: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1418: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1419:
1.213 horacio 1420: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1421: 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 1422: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1423:
1.190 horacio 1424: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1425: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1426: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1427: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1428: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1429: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1430: <p>
1.190 horacio 1431:
1.247 jufi 1432: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1433: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1434: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1435: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1436: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1437:
1.195 jufi 1438: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1439: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1440: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1441: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1442: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1443: <p>
1444:
1.247 jufi 1445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1446: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1447: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1448: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1449: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1450:
1.191 jufi 1451: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1452: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1453: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1454: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1455: <p>
1456:
1457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1458: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1459: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1460: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1461:
1462: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1463: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1464: <p>
1.247 jufi 1465: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1466:
1.191 jufi 1467:
1.186 jufi 1468: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1469: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1470:
1.247 jufi 1471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1472: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1473: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1474: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1475: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1476:
1.188 jufi 1477: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1478: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1479: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1480: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1481: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1482: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1483: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1484: <p>
1485:
1.301 jose 1486: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1487: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1488: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1489: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1490:
1491: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1492: <p>
1.191 jufi 1493:
1.247 jufi 1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1495: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1496: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1497: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1498: </strong></font><br>
1499:
1500: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1501: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1502: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1503: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1504: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1505: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1506: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1507: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1508: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1509: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1510: familiar?
1511: <p>
1.247 jufi 1512: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1513:
1.178 louis 1514: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1515: <ul>
1.178 louis 1516:
1.247 jufi 1517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1518: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1519: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1520: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1521: </strong></font><br>
1522:
1523: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1524: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1525: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1526: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1527: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1528: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1529: <p>
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1532: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1533: Open source under the hood</a>,
1534: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1535: </strong></font><br>
1536:
1537: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1538: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1539: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1540: <p>
1541:
1.247 jufi 1542: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1543: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1544: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1545: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1546: </strong></font><br>
1547:
1548: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1549: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1550: <p>
1.247 jufi 1551: </ul>
1.179 louis 1552:
1.174 louis 1553:
1.175 louis 1554: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1555: <ul>
1.175 louis 1556:
1.247 jufi 1557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1558: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1559: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1560: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1561: </strong></font><br>
1562:
1563: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1564: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1565: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1566: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1567: <p>
1568:
1.247 jufi 1569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1570: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1571: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1572: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1573: </strong></font><br>
1574:
1575: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1576: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1577: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1578: <p>
1.247 jufi 1579: </ul>
1.175 louis 1580:
1.176 louis 1581:
1.172 mickey 1582: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1583: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1584:
1.247 jufi 1585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1586: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1587: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1588: </strong></font><br>
1589:
1590: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1591: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1592: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1593: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1594: <p>
1595:
1.247 jufi 1596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1597: <a
1.269 deraadt 1598: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1599: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1600: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1601: </strong></font><br>
1602:
1603: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1604: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1605: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1606: <p>
1607:
1.247 jufi 1608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1609: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1610: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1611: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1612: </strong></font><br>
1613:
1614: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1615: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1616: <p>
1617:
1.247 jufi 1618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1619: <a
1.269 deraadt 1620: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1621: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1622: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1623: </strong></font><br>
1624:
1625: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1626: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1627: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1628: our own Theo de Raadt.
1629: <p>
1630:
1.247 jufi 1631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1632: <a
1.269 deraadt 1633: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1634: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1635: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1636: </strong></font><br>
1637:
1638: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1639: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1640: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1641: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1642: shut down.]
1643: <p>
1644:
1.247 jufi 1645: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1646: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1647: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1648: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1649: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1650: </strong></font><br>
1651:
1652: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1653: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1654: <p>
1.247 jufi 1655: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1656:
1.161 louis 1657: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1658: <ul>
1.161 louis 1659:
1.247 jufi 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1661: <a
1.269 deraadt 1662: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1663: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1664: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1665: </strong></font><br>
1666:
1667: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1668: by John Wolley
1669: <p>
1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1672: <a
1.269 deraadt 1673: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1674: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1675: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1676: </strong></font><br>
1677:
1678: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1679: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1680: OpenBSD).
1681: <p>
1682:
1.247 jufi 1683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1684: <a
1.247 jufi 1685: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1686: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1689: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1690: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1691: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1692: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1693: and hindsight.
1694: <p>
1695:
1.247 jufi 1696: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1697: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1698: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1699: </strong></font><br>
1700:
1701: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1702: <p>
1703:
1.247 jufi 1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1705: <a
1.168 provos 1706: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1707: December 7, 2000
1708: </strong></font><br>
1709:
1710: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1711: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1712: us explain.
1713: <p>
1714:
1.247 jufi 1715: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1716: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1717: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1718: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1719: December 6, 2000
1720: </strong></font><br>
1721:
1722: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1723: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1724: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1725: <p>
1726:
1.247 jufi 1727: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1728: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1729: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1730: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1731: </strong></font><br>
1732:
1733: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1734: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1735: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1736: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1737: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1738: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1739: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1740: <p>
1741:
1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1743: <a
1.226 horacio 1744: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1745: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1746: </strong></font><br>
1747:
1748: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1749: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1750: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1751: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1752: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1753: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1754: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1755: <p>
1.162 millert 1756:
1.247 jufi 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1758: <a
1.161 louis 1759: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1760: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1761: </strong></font><br>
1762:
1763: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1764: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1765: <p>
1766:
1.247 jufi 1767: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1768: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1769: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1770: </strong></font><br>
1771:
1772: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1773: <p>
1774:
1775:
1.247 jufi 1776: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1777: <a
1.226 horacio 1778: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1779: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1780: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1781: </strong></font><br>
1782:
1783: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1784: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1785: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1786: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1787: <p>
1.247 jufi 1788: </ul>
1.169 louis 1789:
1.158 louis 1790: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1791: <ul>
1.147 louis 1792:
1.247 jufi 1793: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1794: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1795: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1796: </strong></font><br>
1797:
1798: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1799: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1800: <p>
1801:
1.247 jufi 1802: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1803: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1804: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1805: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1806: </strong></font><br>
1807: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1808: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1809: <p>
1810:
1.247 jufi 1811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1812: <a
1813: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1814: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1815: </strong></font><br>
1816:
1817: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1818: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1819: <p>
1820:
1.247 jufi 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1822: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1823: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1824: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1825:
1.213 horacio 1826: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1827: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1828: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1829: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1830: <p>
1.215 horacio 1831:
1.247 jufi 1832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1833: <a
1834: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1835: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1836: </strong></font><br>
1837:
1838: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1839: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1840: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1841: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1842: much of the attitude too).
1843: <p>
1.161 louis 1844:
1.247 jufi 1845: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1846: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1847: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1848: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1849:
1.157 louis 1850: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1851: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1852: <p>
1.247 jufi 1853: </ul>
1.157 louis 1854:
1855: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1856: <ul>
1.157 louis 1857:
1.247 jufi 1858: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1859: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1860: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1861: </strong></font><br>
1862:
1863: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1864: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1865: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1866: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1867: <p>
1868:
1.247 jufi 1869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1870: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1871: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1872: </strong></font><br>
1873:
1874: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1875: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1876: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1877: it because they love coding...
1878: <p>
1879:
1.247 jufi 1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1881: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1882: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1883: </strong></font><br>
1884:
1885: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1886: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1887: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1888: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1889: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1890: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1891: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1892: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1893: <p>
1894:
1.247 jufi 1895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1896: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1897: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1898: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1899: </strong></font><br>
1900:
1901: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1902: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1903: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1904: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1905: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1906: the pizza.
1907: <p>
1908:
1.247 jufi 1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1910: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1911: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1912: </strong></font><br>
1913:
1914: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1915: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1916: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1917: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1918: problems.
1919: <p>
1920:
1.247 jufi 1921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1922: <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 1923: </strong></font><br>
1924:
1.222 miod 1925: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1926: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1927: - whether they like it or not.
1928: <p>
1929:
1.247 jufi 1930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1931: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1932: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1933: </strong></font><br>
1934:
1935: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1936: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1937: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1938: <p>
1.148 aaron 1939:
1.247 jufi 1940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1941: <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 1942: </strong></font><br>
1943:
1944: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1945: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1946: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1947: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1948: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1949: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1950: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1951: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1952: <p>
1953:
1.247 jufi 1954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1955: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1956: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1957: </strong></font><br>
1958:
1959: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1960: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1961: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1962: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1963: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1964: <p>
1.247 jufi 1965: </ul>
1.147 louis 1966:
1.138 louis 1967: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1968: <ul>
1.138 louis 1969:
1.247 jufi 1970: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1971: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1972: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1973: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1974: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1975: </strong></font><br>
1976:
1.227 horacio 1977: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 1978: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
1979: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
1980: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
1981: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
1982: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
1983: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
1984: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 1985: <p>
1986:
1.247 jufi 1987: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 1988: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 1989: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 1990: </strong></font><br>
1991:
1992: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
1993: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
1994: groups, and even Linux.
1995: <p>
1996:
1.247 jufi 1997: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1998: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
1999: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2000: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2001: </strong></font><br>
2002:
2003: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2004: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2005: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2006: library after installing the OS.
2007: <p>
2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2010: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2011: Sys Admin, September 2000
2012: </strong></font><br>
2013:
2014: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2015: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2016: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2017: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2018: (<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>,
2019: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2020: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2021: <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 2022: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2023: out of the system.
2024: <p>
2025:
1.247 jufi 2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2027: <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
2028: </strong></font><br>
2029:
2030: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2031: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2032: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2033: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2034: the IP filtering and address translation.
2035: <p>
1.301 jose 2036:
2037: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2038: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2039: </strong></font><br>
2040:
2041: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2042: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2043: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2044: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2045: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2046: <p>
1.247 jufi 2047: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2048:
1.131 louis 2049: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2050: <ul>
1.131 louis 2051:
1.247 jufi 2052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2053: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2054: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2055: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2056: </strong></font><br>
2057:
2058: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2059: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2060: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2061: <p>
2062:
1.247 jufi 2063: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2064: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2065: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2066: </strong></font><br>
2067:
2068: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2069: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2070: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2071: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2072: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2073: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2074: note of"</i>.
2075: <p>
2076:
1.247 jufi 2077: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2078: <a
1.247 jufi 2079: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2080: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2081: </strong></font><br>
2082:
2083: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2084: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2085: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2086: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2087: <p>
2088:
1.247 jufi 2089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2090: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2091: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2095: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2096: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2097: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2098: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2099: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2100: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2101: <p>
2102:
1.247 jufi 2103: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2104: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2105: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2106: 2000
2107: </strong></font><br>
2108:
2109: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2110: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2111: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2112: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2113: against current industry practices.
2114: <p>
2115:
1.247 jufi 2116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2117: <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
2118: </strong></font><br>
2119:
2120: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2121: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2122: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2123: <p>
2124:
1.247 jufi 2125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2126: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2127: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2128: </strong></font><br>
2129:
2130: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2131: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2132: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2133: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2134: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2135: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2136: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2137: <p>
2138:
1.247 jufi 2139: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2140: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2141: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2142: </strong></font><br>
2143:
2144: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2145: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2146: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2147: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2148: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2149: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2150: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2151: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2152: <p>
1.247 jufi 2153: </ul>
1.131 louis 2154:
1.118 louis 2155: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2156: <ul>
1.118 louis 2157:
1.247 jufi 2158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2159: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2160: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2161: </strong></font><br>
2162:
2163: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2164: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2165: about time. The article mentions that
2166: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2167: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2168: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2169: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2170: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2171: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2172: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2173: <p>
2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2176: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2177: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2178: </strong></font><br>
2179:
2180: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2181: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2182: of OpenSSH.
2183: <p>
2184:
1.247 jufi 2185: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2186: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2187: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2188: </strong></font><br>
2189:
2190: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2191: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2192: bridging.
2193: <p>
2194:
1.247 jufi 2195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2196: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2197: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2198: </strong></font><br>
2199:
1.121 deraadt 2200: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2201: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2202: <p>
2203:
1.247 jufi 2204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2205: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2206: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2207: </strong></font><br>
2208:
2209: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2210: <p>
2211:
1.247 jufi 2212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2213: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2214: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2215: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2216: </strong></font><br>
2217:
1.120 deraadt 2218: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2219: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2220: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2221: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2222: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2223: <p>
2224:
1.247 jufi 2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2226: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2227: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2228: </strong></font><br>
2229:
1.222 miod 2230: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2231: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2232: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2233: protocols and their quirks.
2234: <p>
2235:
1.247 jufi 2236: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2237: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2238: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2239: </strong></font><br>
2240:
2241: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2242: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2243: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2244: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2245: <p>
2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2248: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2249: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2250: </strong></font><br>
2251:
2252: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2253: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2254: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2255: <p>
2256:
1.247 jufi 2257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2258: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2259: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2260: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2261: </strong></font><br>
2262:
2263: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2264: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2265: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2266: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2267: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2268: <p>
1.247 jufi 2269: </ul>
1.118 louis 2270:
1.104 louis 2271: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2272: <ul>
1.104 louis 2273:
1.247 jufi 2274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2275: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2276: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2277: </strong></font><br>
2278:
2279: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2280: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2281: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2282: be a bit dry.
2283: <p>
2284:
1.247 jufi 2285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2286: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2287: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2288: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2289: </strong></font><br>
2290: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2291: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2292: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2293: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2294: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2295: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2296: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2297: <p>
2298:
1.247 jufi 2299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2300: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2301: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2302: 2000
1.128 louis 2303: </strong></font><br>
2304:
2305: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2306: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2307: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2308: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2309: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2310: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2311: <p>
2312:
1.247 jufi 2313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2314: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2315: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2316: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2317:
2318: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2319: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2320: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2321: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2322: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2323: <p>
1.110 louis 2324:
1.247 jufi 2325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2326: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2327: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2328: </strong></font><br>
2329:
2330: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2331: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2332: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2333: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2334: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2335: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2336: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2337: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2338: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2339: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2340: <p>
2341:
1.247 jufi 2342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2343: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2344: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2345:
2346: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2347: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2348: <p>
1.108 louis 2349:
1.247 jufi 2350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2351: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2352: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2353: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2354:
2355: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2356: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2357: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2358: <p>
1.106 louis 2359:
1.247 jufi 2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2361: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2362: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2363: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2364:
2365: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2366: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2367: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2368: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2369: <p>
1.107 louis 2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2372: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2373: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2374: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2375:
2376: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2377: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2378: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2379: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2380: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2381: <p>
1.105 louis 2382:
1.247 jufi 2383: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2384: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2385: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2386: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2387:
1.113 naddy 2388: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2389: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2390: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2391: <p>
1.104 louis 2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2394: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2395: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2396: </strong></font><br>
2397:
2398: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2399: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2400: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2401: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2402: <p>
1.301 jose 2403:
2404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2405: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2406: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2407: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2408:
2409: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2410: hardware-supported cryptography.
2411: <p>
1.247 jufi 2412: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2413:
1.85 louis 2414: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2415: <ul>
1.85 louis 2416:
1.247 jufi 2417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2418: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2419: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2420: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2421:
2422: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2423: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2424: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2425: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2426: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2427: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2428: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2429: <p>
1.99 louis 2430:
1.247 jufi 2431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2432: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2433: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2434: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2435:
2436: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2437: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2438: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2439: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2440: <p>
1.100 louis 2441:
1.247 jufi 2442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2443: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2444: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2445: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2446:
2447: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2448: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2449: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2450: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2451: <p>
1.95 louis 2452:
1.247 jufi 2453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2454: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2455: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2456: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2457:
2458: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2459: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2460: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2461: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2462: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2463: <p>
1.92 louis 2464:
1.247 jufi 2465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2466: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2467: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2468: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2469:
2470: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2471: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2472: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2473: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2474: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2475: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2476: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2477: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2478: <p>
1.91 louis 2479:
1.247 jufi 2480: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2481: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2482: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2483: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2484:
2485: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2486: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2487: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2488: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2489: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2490: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2491: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2492: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2493: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2494: <p>
1.90 louis 2495:
1.247 jufi 2496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2497: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2498: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2499: </strong></font><br>
2500: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2501: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2502: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2503: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2504: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2505: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2506: <p>
2507:
1.247 jufi 2508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2509: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2510: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2511: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2512:
1.113 naddy 2513: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2514: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2515: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2516: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2517: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2518: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2519: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2520: <p>
1.87 louis 2521:
1.247 jufi 2522: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2523: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2524: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2525: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2526:
2527: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2528: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2529: <p>
1.85 louis 2530:
1.247 jufi 2531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2532: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2533: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2534: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2535:
2536: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2537: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2538: <p>
2539:
2540: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2541: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2542: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2543: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2544:
2545: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2546: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2547: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2548: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2549: <p>
1.89 louis 2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2552: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2553: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2554: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2555:
2556: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2557: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2558: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2559: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2560: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2561: </ul>
1.85 louis 2562:
1.78 deraadt 2563: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2564: <ul>
1.74 louis 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2567: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2568: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2569: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2570: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2571:
2572: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2573: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2574: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2575: <p>
1.83 louis 2576:
1.247 jufi 2577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2578: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2579: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2580: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2581:
2582: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2583: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2584: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2585: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2586: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2587: <p>
1.93 louis 2588:
1.247 jufi 2589: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2590: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2591: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2592: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2593: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2594:
1.83 louis 2595: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2596: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2597: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2598: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2599: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2600: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2601: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2602: <p>
1.82 aaron 2603:
1.247 jufi 2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2605: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2606: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2607: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2608:
1.83 louis 2609: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2610: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2611: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2612: <p>
1.80 louis 2613:
1.247 jufi 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2615: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2616: Bad Press</a>,
2617: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2618: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2619:
2620: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2621: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2622: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2623: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2624: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2625: <p>
1.247 jufi 2626: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2627:
2628: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2629: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2630:
1.247 jufi 2631: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2632: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2633: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2634: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2635: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2636:
2637: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2638: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2639: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2640: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2641: <p>
1.74 louis 2642:
1.247 jufi 2643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2644: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2645: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2646: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2647:
1.219 horacio 2648: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2649: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2650: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2651: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2652: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2653: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2654: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2655: <p>
1.88 louis 2656:
1.247 jufi 2657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2658: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2659: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2660: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2661:
2662: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2663: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2664: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2665: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2666: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2667: <p>
1.81 louis 2668:
1.247 jufi 2669: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2670: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2671: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2672: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2673:
2674: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2675: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2676: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2677: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2678: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2679: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2680: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2681: <p>
1.90 louis 2682:
1.247 jufi 2683: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2684: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2685: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2686: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2687:
2688: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2689: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2690: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2691: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2692: <p>
1.247 jufi 2693: </ul>
1.71 louis 2694:
1.69 deraadt 2695: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2696: <ul>
1.70 louis 2697:
1.247 jufi 2698: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2699: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2700: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2701: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2702:
2703: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2704: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2705: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2706: <p>
1.70 louis 2707:
1.247 jufi 2708: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2709: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2710: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2711: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2712:
2713: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2714: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2715: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2716: <p>
1.68 louis 2717:
1.247 jufi 2718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2719: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2720: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2721: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2722: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2723:
1.111 jufi 2724: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2725: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2726: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2727: "secure by default" installation.
2728: <p>
1.64 louis 2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2731: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2732: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2733: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2734:
1.113 naddy 2735: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2736: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2737: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2738: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2739: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2740: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2741: <p>
1.66 louis 2742:
1.247 jufi 2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2744: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2745: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2746: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2747:
2748: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2749: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2750: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2751: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2752: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2753: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2754: <p>
1.83 louis 2755:
1.247 jufi 2756: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2757: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2758: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2759: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2760:
2761: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2762: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2763: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2764: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2765: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2766: <p>
1.64 louis 2767:
1.247 jufi 2768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2769: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2770: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2771: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2772:
2773: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2774: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2775: <p>
1.301 jose 2776:
2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2778: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2779: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2780: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2781: </strong></font><br>
2782:
2783: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2784: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2785: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2786: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2787: Giving way to
2788: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2789: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2790: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2791: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2792: <p>
1.247 jufi 2793: </ul>
1.65 louis 2794:
1.69 deraadt 2795: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2796: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2797:
1.247 jufi 2798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2799: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2800: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2801: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2802:
2803: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2804: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2805: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2806: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2807: <p>
1.88 louis 2808:
1.247 jufi 2809: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2810: <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 2811: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2812:
2813: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2814: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2815: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2816: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2817: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2818: <p>
1.60 louis 2819:
1.247 jufi 2820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2821: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2822: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2823: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2824: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2825:
2826: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2827: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2828: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2829: <p>
1.58 louis 2830:
1.247 jufi 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2832: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2833: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2834:
2835: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2836: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2837: <p>
1.53 louis 2838:
1.247 jufi 2839: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2840: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2841: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2842: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2843:
2844: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2845: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2846: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2847: <p>
1.99 louis 2848:
1.247 jufi 2849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2850: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2851: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2852:
2853: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2854: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2855: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2856: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2857: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2858:
1.247 jufi 2859: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2860: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2861: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2862: </strong></font><br>
2863:
2864: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2865: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2866: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2867: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2868: <p>
2869:
1.247 jufi 2870: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2871: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2872: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2873: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2874:
2875: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2876: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2877: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2878:
1.247 jufi 2879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2880: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2881: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2882:
2883: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2884: in
1.247 jufi 2885: <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 2886: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2887: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2888: <p>
1.53 louis 2889:
1.247 jufi 2890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2891: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2892: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2893: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2894: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2895:
1.58 louis 2896: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2897: <p>
1.301 jose 2898:
2899: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2900: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2901: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2902: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2903: Informacyjny, January 2000
2904: </strong></font><br>
2905:
2906: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2907: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2908: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2909: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2910: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2911: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2912: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2913: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2914: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2915: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2916: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2917: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2918: <p>
2919:
2920: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2921: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2922: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2923: </strong></font><br>
2924:
2925: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2926: <p>
2927: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2928:
1.69 deraadt 2929: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2930: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2933: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2934: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2935: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2936: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2937:
1.58 louis 2938: Kurt Seifried
2939: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2940: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2941: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2942: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2943:
1.247 jufi 2944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2945: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2946: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2947: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2948:
2949: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2950: <p>
1.96 louis 2951:
1.247 jufi 2952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2953: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2954: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2955: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2956: </strong></font><br>
2957:
2958: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2959: <p>
2960:
2961: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2962: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2963: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2964: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2965:
2966: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2967: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2968: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2969: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2970: <p>
1.247 jufi 2971: </ul>
1.86 louis 2972:
1.69 deraadt 2973: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2974: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2977: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
2978: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 2979: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 2980:
2981: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
2982: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 2983: <p>
1.61 louis 2984:
1.247 jufi 2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2986: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 2987: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
2988: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 2989: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 2990:
2991: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 2992: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 2993: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
2994: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 2995: right -- or at least strives to".
2996: <p>
1.48 louis 2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2999: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3000: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3001: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3002: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3003: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3004: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3005: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3006: <p>
1.61 louis 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <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 3009: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3010: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3011:
3012: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3013: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3014: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3015: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3016: <p>
1.46 louis 3017:
1.247 jufi 3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3019: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3020: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3021: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3022:
3023: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3024: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3025: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3026:
1.247 jufi 3027: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3028: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3029: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3030: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3031:
3032: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3033: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3034: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3035: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3036: <p>
1.247 jufi 3037: </ul>
1.70 louis 3038:
1.69 deraadt 3039: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3040: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3041:
1.247 jufi 3042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3043: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3044: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3045: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3046: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3047:
3048: Kurt Seifried
3049: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3050: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3051: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3052: <p>
1.44 philen 3053:
1.247 jufi 3054: <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 3055: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3056: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3057:
3058: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3059: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3060:
1.247 jufi 3061: <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 3062: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3063: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3064:
3065: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3066: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3067:
1.247 jufi 3068: <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 3069: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3070: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3071:
3072: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3073: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3074: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3075: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3076: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <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 3079: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3080: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3081:
1.36 louis 3082: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3083: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3084:
1.247 jufi 3085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3086: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3087: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3088: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3089:
3090: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3091: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3092: </ul>
1.38 louis 3093:
1.69 deraadt 3094: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3095: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3096:
1.247 jufi 3097: <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 3098: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3099: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3100:
3101: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3102: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3103: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3104:
1.113 naddy 3105: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3106: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3107: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3108: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3109:
3110: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3111: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3112: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3113: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3114: <blockquote>
3115: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3116: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3117: <br>
3118: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3119: </code>
3120: </blockquote>
3121: <p>
3122:
1.247 jufi 3123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3124: <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>
3125: <p>
3126:
3127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3128: <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 3129: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3130:
3131: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3132: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3133: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3134: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3135:
1.247 jufi 3136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3137: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3138: Sept. 28, 1999
3139: </strong></font><br>
3140:
3141: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3142: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3143: translating and reprinting articles from
3144: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3145: <p>
3146:
3147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3148: <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 3149: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3150:
3151: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3152: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3153: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3154: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3155: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3156: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3157: <p>
1.19 louis 3158:
1.113 naddy 3159: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3160: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3161: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3162:
3163: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3164: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3165: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3166: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3167: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3168: <p>
1.16 louis 3169:
1.247 jufi 3170: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3171: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3172: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3173: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3174:
1.57 louis 3175: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3176: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3177: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3178: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3179:
1.247 jufi 3180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3181: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3182: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3183: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3184:
1.113 naddy 3185: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3186:
1.247 jufi 3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3188: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3189: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3190: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3191:
1.23 louis 3192: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3193: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3194: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3195: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3196: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3197: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3198:
1.247 jufi 3199: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3200: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3201: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3202: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3203:
1.199 pvalchev 3204: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3205: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3206: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3207: installation.
1.113 naddy 3208: <p>
1.47 louis 3209:
1.247 jufi 3210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3211: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3212: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3213: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3214:
1.301 jose 3215: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3216: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3217: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3218: </ul>
1.57 louis 3219:
1.69 deraadt 3220: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3221: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3222:
1.247 jufi 3223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3224: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3225: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3226: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3227:
3228: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3229: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3230: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3231: <p>
1.12 louis 3232:
1.247 jufi 3233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3234: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3235: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3236: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3237:
3238: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3239: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3240: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3241: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3242: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3243: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3244: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3245: <p>
1.247 jufi 3246: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3247:
1.69 deraadt 3248: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3249: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3252: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3253: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3254:
3255: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3256: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3257: available."
1.113 naddy 3258: <p>
1.301 jose 3259:
3260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3261: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3262: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3263: </strong></font><br>
3264:
3265: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3266: <p>
1.247 jufi 3267: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3268:
1.69 deraadt 3269: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3270: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3271:
1.247 jufi 3272: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3273: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3274: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3275:
3276: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3277: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3278: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3279: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3280: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3281: <p>
1.33 louis 3282:
1.247 jufi 3283: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3284: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3285: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3286: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3287:
1.113 naddy 3288: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3289: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3290: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3291: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3292: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3293: <p>
1.247 jufi 3294: </ul>
1.57 louis 3295:
1.69 deraadt 3296: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3297: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3298:
1.247 jufi 3299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3300: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3301: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3302: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3303:
3304: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3305: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3306: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3307:
1.247 jufi 3308: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3309: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3310: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3311: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3312: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3313:
3314: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3315: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3316:
1.247 jufi 3317: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3318: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3319:
1.113 naddy 3320: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3321:
1.247 jufi 3322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3323: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3324: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3325: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3326:
3327: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3328: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3329: </ul>
1.23 louis 3330:
1.69 deraadt 3331: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3332: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3333:
1.247 jufi 3334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3335: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3336: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3337:
3338: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3339: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3340: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3341:
1.247 jufi 3342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3343: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3344: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3345: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3346:
3347: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3348: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3349: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3350: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3351: </ul>
1.57 louis 3352:
1.69 deraadt 3353: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3354: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3357: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3358: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3359: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3360:
3361: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3362: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3363: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3364: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3365: <p>
1.15 louis 3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3368: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3369: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3370: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3371:
3372: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3373: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3374: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3375: columns."
1.113 naddy 3376: <p>
1.247 jufi 3377: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3378:
1.69 deraadt 3379: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3380: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3381:
1.247 jufi 3382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3383: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3384: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3385: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3386:
3387: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3388: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3389:
1.113 naddy 3390: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3391: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3392: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3393:
3394: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3395: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3396: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3397: </ul>
1.57 louis 3398:
1.69 deraadt 3399: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3400: <ul>
1.301 jose 3401: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3402: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3403: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3404: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3405:
3406: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3407: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3408: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3409: <p>
3410:
3411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3412: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3413: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3414: Nov 13, 1998 and
3415: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3416: Datateknik</a>,
3417: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3418:
3419: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3420: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3421: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3422: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3423: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3424:
1.113 naddy 3425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3426: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3427: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3428: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3429:
1.222 miod 3430: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3431: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3432: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3433: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3434: <p>
1.247 jufi 3435: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3436:
1.69 deraadt 3437: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3438: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3439:
1.247 jufi 3440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3441: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3442: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3443:
1.69 deraadt 3444: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3445: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3446: <p>
1.247 jufi 3447: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3448:
1.69 deraadt 3449: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3450: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3451:
1.247 jufi 3452: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3453: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3454: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3455: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3456:
3457: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3458: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3459: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3460:
1.247 jufi 3461: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3462: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3463: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3464: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3465: <p>
1.247 jufi 3466: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3467:
1.69 deraadt 3468: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3469: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3470:
1.247 jufi 3471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3472: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3473: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3474: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3475: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3476: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3477:
3478: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3479: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3480: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3481: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3482: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3483: <p>
1.247 jufi 3484: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3485:
3486: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3487: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3488:
1.247 jufi 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3490: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3491: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3492:
1.69 deraadt 3493: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3494: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3495: <p>
1.112 naddy 3496:
1.247 jufi 3497: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3498: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3499:
1.292 camield 3500: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3501: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3502: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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