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1.338 ! ian 19: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
! 20: <ul>
! 21:
! 22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 23: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
! 24: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
! 25: Todd Miller in openbsd-announce,
! 26: May 1, 2003
! 27: </strong></font><br>
! 28: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
! 29: that have been added
! 30: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
! 31: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
! 32: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
! 33: third-party "ports", spamd, many upgrades to included software, and more.
! 34: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
! 35: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
! 36: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
! 37: <p>
! 38:
! 39: </ul>
! 40:
1.253 ian 41: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
42: <ul>
1.255 ian 43:
1.260 ian 44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 45: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 46: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
47: TechRepublic,
48: April 28, 2003.
49: </strong></font><br>
50: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
51: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 52: work.<br>
53: Can also be found online at:
54: <ul>
55: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
56: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
57: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
58: ZDNet UK.
59: </strong></font>
60: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 61: <p>
62:
63: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 64: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
65: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
66: IDG,
67: April 24, 2003.
68: </strong></font><br>
69: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
70: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
71: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
72: Can also be found online at:
73: <ul>
74: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
75: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
76: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
77: Infoworld.
78: </strong></font>
79: </ul>
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
83: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 84: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 85: Slate,
86: April 24, 2003.
87: </strong></font><br>
88: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
89: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
90: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
91: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
92: <p>
93:
94: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 95: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
96: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
97: April 24, 2003.
98: </strong></font><br>
99: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
100: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
101: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
102: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 106: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
107: April 24, 2003.
108: </strong></font><br>
109: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
110: the free software community".
111: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
112: other articles.
113: <p>
114:
115: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
116: <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>,
117: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
118: </strong></font><br>
119: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
120: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
121: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
122: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
123: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
124: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
125: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
126: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
127: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
128: <br/>
129: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
130: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
131: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
132: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 133: <br>
134: Can also be found online at:
135: <ul>
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
137: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
138: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
139: Common Dreams NewsCenter
140: </strong></font>
141: </ul>
1.324 ian 142: <p>
143:
144: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
145: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
146: Wired, April 24, 2003.
147: </strong></font><br>
148: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
149: article above.
150: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
151: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
152: wasting them."
1.332 ian 153: <br>
154: Can also be found online at:
155: <ul>
156: <li>
157: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
158: </strong></font>
159: </ul>
1.324 ian 160: <p>
161:
162: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 163: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
164: </strong></font><br>
165: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
166: <p>
167:
168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 169: <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.
170: </strong></font><br>
171: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
172: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
173: <p>
174:
175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 176: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
177: April 23, 2003.
178: </strong></font><br>
179: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
180: <p>
181:
182: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 183: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 184: April 22, 2003.
185: </strong></font><br>
186: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
187: <p>
188:
189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 190: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
191: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
192: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 193: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 194: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
195: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
196: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
197: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
198: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
199: Can also be found online at:
200: <ul>
201: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
202: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 203: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
204: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 205: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
207: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 208: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
209: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 210: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 211: </ul>
212: <p>
213:
214: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 215: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
216: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 217: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 218: </strong></font><br>
219: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 220: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
221: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
222: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
223: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
224: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
225: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 226: <p>
227:
228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 229: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
230: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 231: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
232: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 233: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
234: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
235: at UPenn and DARPA.
236: <p>
237:
238: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 239: [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
240: April 18, 2003.
241: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 242: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 243: <p>
244:
245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 246: [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 247: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 248: </strong></font><br>
249: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
250: <p>
251:
252: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 253: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
254: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
255: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 256: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 257: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
258: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
259: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
260: <p>
261:
262: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 263: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
264: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 265: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 266: </strong></font><br>
267: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
268: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
269: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 270: American century.
1.267 deraadt 271: <p>
272:
273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 274: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
275: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 276: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 277: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 278: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
279: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
280: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
281: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
282: Can also be found online at:
283: <ul>
284: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
285: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 286: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 287: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 288: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 289: <p>
290:
291: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 292: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 293: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 294: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 295: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 296: </strong></font><br>
297: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 298: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
299: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
300: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
301: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 302:
303: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
304: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
305: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
306: New York Times.
307: </strong></font>(free registration required)
308:
1.273 deraadt 309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
310: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 311: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 312: ABC News.
313: </strong></font>
314:
315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 316: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 317: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 318: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 319: </strong></font>
320:
321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 322: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 323: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 324: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 325: </strong></font>
326:
327: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 328: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
329: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 330: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 331: </strong></font>
332:
333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 334: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 335: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 336: Times Daily, AL.
337: </strong></font>
338:
339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
340: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
341: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
342: Boston.com, MA.
343: </strong></font>
344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 346: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 347: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 348: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
349: </strong></font>
350:
351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 352: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
353: [Article was pulled]</a>
354: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 355: </strong></font>
356:
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
358: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
359: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
360: Infoshop News.
361: </strong></font>
362:
363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
364: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
365: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
366: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
367: </strong></font>
368:
369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 370: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
371: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
372: Raleigh News, NC.
373: </strong></font>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 376: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
377: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
378: Napa News, CA.
379: </strong></font>
380:
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 382: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 383: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
384: NEPA News, PA.
385: </strong></font>
386:
387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
388: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
389: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
390: Wired News.
391: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 392: <br>
393: <li>
1.333 deraadt 394: <font color="#009000"><strong>
395: [JAPANESE]
396: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
397: Wired News Japan</a>
398: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 399:
1.271 deraadt 400: </ul>
401: <p>
1.272 deraadt 402: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
403: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 404: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
405: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
406: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
407: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
408: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
409: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 410: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 411: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
412: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
413: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 414: <p>
415: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 416:
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 418: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 419: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
420: Indianapolis Star, IN.
421: </strong></font>
422:
423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 424: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
425: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
426: Miami Herald, FL.
427: </strong></font>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 430: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 431: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
432: </strong></font>
433:
434: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
435: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 436: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 437: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 438: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 439:
440: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
441: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
442: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
443: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
444: ABC News.
445: </strong></font>
446:
1.276 deraadt 447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
448: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 449: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 450: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 451: </strong></font>
452:
1.286 dhartmei 453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 454: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 455: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
456: Wilmington Star, NC.
457: </strong></font>
458:
1.300 jose 459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
460: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
461: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
462: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
463: </strong></font>
464:
1.309 jose 465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
467: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
468: Globe Technology.
469: </strong></font>
470:
1.263 deraadt 471: </ul>
1.262 beck 472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 475: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
476: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 477: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 478: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 479: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 480: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
481: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
482: <p>
483:
484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 485: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
486: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
487: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 488: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 489: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
490: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
491: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
492: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
493: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
494: and simply restates other press reports.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 498: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
499: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
500: OS News, April 18, 2003.
501: </strong></font><br>
502: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
503: <p>
504:
505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 506: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
507: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 508: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 509: </strong></font><br>
510: Another report on the DARPA funding.
511: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
512: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
513: <p>
514:
515: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 516: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
517: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
518: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
519: April 17, 2003.
520: </strong></font><br>
521: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
522: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
523: Tech Anthems</a>
524: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
525: 4 so far.
526: <p>
527:
528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 529: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
530: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 531: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 532: </strong></font><br>
533: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
534: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
535: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
536: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
537: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
538: Goes on to say:
539: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
540: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
541: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
542: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 543: This article is also found online at:
544: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
546: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
547: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
548: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 549: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
551: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
552: ZDnet</a>,
553: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 554: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 555: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
556: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
557: ZDnet Australia</a>,
558: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 559: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 560: </ul>
1.260 ian 561: <p>
1.279 deraadt 562:
1.260 ian 563: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 564: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 565: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 566: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 567: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 568: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 569: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
570: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
571: without notice or justification.
572: <p>
573:
574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 575: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 576: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 577: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 578: </strong></font><br>
579: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
580: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 581: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 582: effective today, without any warning..."
583: <p>
1.257 ian 584:
585: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 586: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
587: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 588: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 589: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 590: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
591: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
592: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
593: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
594: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 595: <p>
596:
597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 598: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
599: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 600: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 601: </strong></font><br>
602: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
603: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
604: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
605: quoting two of them:
606: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
607: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
608: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
609: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
610: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
611: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
612: <p>
613:
1.255 ian 614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 615: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
616: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 617: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 618: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 619: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 620: <p>
621:
622: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 623: [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 624: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 625: </strong></font><br>
626: New security concepts in OpenBSD
627: <p>
628:
629: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 630: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
631: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 632: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 633: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 634: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 635: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
636: security experts for more than three decades."
637: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
638: <p>
1.261 ian 639:
1.254 drahn 640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 641: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 642: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 643: </strong></font><br>
644: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
645: <p>
646:
647: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 648: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
649: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
650: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
651: </strong></font><br>
652: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
653: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
654: discussion OpenBSD's path.
655: <p>
656:
657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 658: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
659: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 660: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 661: </strong></font><br>
662: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
663: from US DARPA.
664: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
665: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
666: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
667: the BSD license.
668: <p>
669: </ul>
670:
1.251 ian 671: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
672: <ul>
673:
674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 675: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
676: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
677: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
678: </strong></font><br>
679:
680: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
681: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
682: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
683: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 687: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
688: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 689: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 690: </strong></font><br>
691: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
692: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
693: Mentions
694: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
695: and
696: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
697: programs.
698: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 699: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 700: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
701: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
702: <p>
1.325 ian 703: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
704: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 705:
706: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
707: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
708: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
709: </strong></font><br>
710: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
711: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
712: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
713: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
714: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
715: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
716: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
717: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
718: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
719: put into service."
720: <p>
721: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
722: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
723: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
724: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
725: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
726: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
727: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
728: computers with security features."
729: <p>
1.329 ian 730:
731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
732: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
733: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
734: Slate,
735: March 3, 2003.
736: </strong></font><br>
737: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
738: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
739: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
740: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
741: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
742: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
743: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
744: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
745: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
746: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
747: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
748: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
749: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
750: of more secure open-source solutions like
751: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
752: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
753: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
754: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
755: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
756: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
757: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
758: the Beltway."
759: <p>
1.251 ian 760: </ul>
761:
1.249 jufi 762: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
763: <ul>
764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
765: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
766: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 767: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 768: </strong></font><br>
769: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
770: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 771: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 772: <p>
1.334 ian 773:
774: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
775: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
776: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
777: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
778: </strong></font><br>
779: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
780: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
781: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
782: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
783: "... the hypothetical question ...
784: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
785: <br>
786: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
787: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
788: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
789: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
790: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
791: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 792: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 793: support network security.
794: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
795: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
796: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
797: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
798: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
799: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
800: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
801: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
802: <br>
803: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
804: <p>
805:
1.249 jufi 806: </ul>
807:
1.246 jufi 808: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 809: <ul>
1.246 jufi 810:
1.247 jufi 811: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 812: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 813: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
814: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 815: </strong></font><br>
816: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
817: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
818: <p>
819:
1.247 jufi 820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 821: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
822: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
823: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
824: </strong></font><br>
825: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
826: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
827: <p>
828:
829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 830: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 831: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
832: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 833: </strong></font><br>
834: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
835: in their annual OpenHack security test.
836: <p>
1.247 jufi 837: </ul>
1.246 jufi 838:
1.244 jufi 839: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 840: <ul>
1.246 jufi 841:
1.247 jufi 842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 843: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
844: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
845: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 846: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 847: </strong></font><br>
848: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
849: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
850: md5 digests.
851: <p>
852:
1.247 jufi 853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 854: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 855: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
856: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 857: </strong></font><br>
858: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
859: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
860: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
861: right the first time."
862: <p>
1.247 jufi 863: </ul>
1.244 jufi 864:
865:
866: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 867: <ul>
1.244 jufi 868:
1.247 jufi 869: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 870: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 871: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
872: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 873: </strong></font><br>
874: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
875: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
876: part 6</a>.
877: <p>
878:
1.247 jufi 879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 880: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 881: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
882: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 883: </strong></font><br>
884: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
885: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
886: <p>
1.301 jose 887:
888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
889: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
890: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
891: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
892: </strong></font><br>
893:
894: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
895: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
896: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
897: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
898: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
899: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
900: <i>Here's the
901: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
902: <p>
1.247 jufi 903: </ul>
1.242 jufi 904:
905: <h2>July, 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/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 910: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
911: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 912: </strong></font><br>
913: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
914: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
915: <p>
916:
1.247 jufi 917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 918: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 919: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
920: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 921: </strong></font><br>
922: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
923: this time using pf.
924: <p>
1.247 jufi 925: </ul>
1.242 jufi 926:
927: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 928: <ul>
1.242 jufi 929:
1.247 jufi 930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 931: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 932: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
933: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 934: </strong></font><br>
935: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
936: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
937: their rotation.
938: <p>
939:
1.247 jufi 940: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 941: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 942: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
943: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 944: </strong></font><br>
945: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
946: <p>
1.247 jufi 947: </ul>
1.242 jufi 948:
1.239 jufi 949: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 950: <ul>
1.239 jufi 951:
1.247 jufi 952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 953: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 954: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
955: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 956: </strong></font><br>
957: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
958: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
959: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
960: <p>
961:
1.247 jufi 962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 963: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 964: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
965: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 966: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 967: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
968: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
969: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 970: <p>
1.247 jufi 971: </ul>
1.239 jufi 972:
1.235 lebel 973: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 974: <ul>
1.235 lebel 975:
1.239 jufi 976:
1.247 jufi 977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 978: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 979: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
980: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 981: </strong></font><br>
982: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
983: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
984: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
985: <p>
1.301 jose 986:
1.247 jufi 987: </ul>
1.235 lebel 988:
1.228 horacio 989: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 990: <ul>
1.228 horacio 991:
1.247 jufi 992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 993: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 994: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
995: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 996: </strong></font><br>
997: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
998: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
999: <p>
1000:
1.247 jufi 1001: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1002: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1003: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1004: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1005: </strong></font><br>
1006: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1007: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1008: <p>
1009:
1.247 jufi 1010: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1011: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1012: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1013: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1014: </strong></font><br>
1015: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1016: on the desktop of his parents.
1017: <p>
1018:
1.247 jufi 1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1020: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1021: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1022: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1023: </strong></font><br>
1024: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1025: using IPFilter.
1026:
1027: <p>
1028:
1.247 jufi 1029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1030: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1031: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1032: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1033: </strong></font><br>
1034: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1035: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1036: perspectives of the four OS.
1037: <br>
1038: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1039: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1040: <p>
1041:
1.247 jufi 1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1043: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1044: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1045: software and security</a>,
1046: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1047: </strong></font><br>
1048:
1049: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1050: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1051: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1052: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1053: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1054: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1055: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1056: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1057: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1058: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1059: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1060: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1061: <p>
1.247 jufi 1062: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1063:
1.225 horacio 1064: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1065: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1066:
1.247 jufi 1067: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1068: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1069: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1070: Interview</a>,
1071: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1072: </strong></font><br>
1073:
1074: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1075: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1076: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1077: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1078: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1079: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1080: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1081: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1082: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1083: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1084: of choice.
1085: <p>
1.247 jufi 1086: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1087:
1088: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1089: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1090:
1.247 jufi 1091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1092: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1093: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1094: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1095: </strong></font><br>
1096:
1097: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1098: <p>
1099:
1.247 jufi 1100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1101: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1102: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1103: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1104: </strong></font><br>
1105:
1106: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1107: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1108: <p>
1.247 jufi 1109: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1110:
1.218 horacio 1111: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1112: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1113:
1.247 jufi 1114: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1115: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1116: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1117: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1118: </strong></font><br>
1119:
1120: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1121: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1122: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1123: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1124: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1125: subjects. Worth a read.
1126: <p>
1127:
1128:
1.247 jufi 1129: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1130: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1131: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1132: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1133: </strong></font><br>
1134:
1135: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1136: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1137: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1138: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1139: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1140: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1141: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1142: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1143: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1144: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1145: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1146: on other operating systems.<br>
1147: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1148: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1149: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1150: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1151: <p>
1152:
1.247 jufi 1153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1154: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1155: Operating System 2010</a>,
1156: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1157: </strong></font><br>
1158:
1159: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1160: covering the level of software integration into the core
1161: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1162: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1163: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1164: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1165: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1166: <p>
1167:
1.247 jufi 1168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1169: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1170: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1171: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1172: </strong></font><br>
1173:
1174: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1175: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1176: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1177: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1178: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1179: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1180: <p>
1.247 jufi 1181: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1182:
1.210 jufi 1183: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1184: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1185:
1.247 jufi 1186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1187: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1188: Already a Contender</a>,
1189: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1190: </strong></font><br>
1191:
1192: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1193: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1194: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1195: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1196: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1197: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1198: <p>
1199:
1.247 jufi 1200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1201: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1202: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1203: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1204: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1205:
1.224 horacio 1206: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1207: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1208: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1209: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1210: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1211: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1212: <p>
1.247 jufi 1213: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1214:
1215: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1216: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1217:
1.247 jufi 1218: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1219: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1220: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1221: Division</a>,
1222: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1223: </strong></font><br>
1224:
1225: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1226: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1227: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1228: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1229: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1230: investment</em>.<br>
1231: The implementation details can be seen on their
1232: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1233: <p>
1234:
1.247 jufi 1235: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1236: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1237: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1238: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1239: </strong></font><br>
1240:
1241: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1242: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1243: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1244: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1245: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1246: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1247: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1248: <p>
1249:
1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1251: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1252: Thinking about Security</a>,
1253: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1254: </strong></font><br>
1255:
1256: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1257: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1258: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1259: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1260: to time.<br>
1261: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1262: system and just the most secure system.
1263: <p>
1264:
1.247 jufi 1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1266: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1267: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1268: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1269: </strong></font><br>
1270:
1271: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1272: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1273: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1274: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1275: choice:<br>
1276: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1277: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1278: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1279: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1280: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1281: network security devices and as such must be well
1282: armored."</em><br>
1283: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1284: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1285: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1286: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1287: <br>
1288: Bravo!
1289: <p>
1.247 jufi 1290: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1291:
1.207 ian 1292: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1293: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1294:
1.247 jufi 1295: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1296: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1297: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1298: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1299:
1.207 ian 1300: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1301: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1302: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1303: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1304: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1305: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1306: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1307: <p>
1.247 jufi 1308: </ul>
1.207 ian 1309:
1.194 jufi 1310: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1311: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1312:
1.247 jufi 1313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1314: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1315: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1316: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1317: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1318:
1.240 miod 1319: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1320: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1321: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1322: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1323: <p>
1324:
1.247 jufi 1325: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1326: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1327: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1328: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1329:
1330: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1331: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1332: <p>
1333:
1334: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1335: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1336: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1337: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1338:
1339: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1340: <p>
1341:
1342: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1343: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1344: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1345: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1346: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1347:
1.240 miod 1348: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1349: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1350: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1351: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1352: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1353: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1354: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1355: <br>
1356: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1357: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1358: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1359: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1360: <p>
1361:
1.247 jufi 1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1363: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1364: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1365: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1366: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1367:
1.194 jufi 1368: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1369: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1370: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1371: <br>
1372: The new
1373: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1374: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1375: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1376: <p>
1.247 jufi 1377: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1378:
1.190 horacio 1379: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1380: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1381:
1.247 jufi 1382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1383:
1384: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1385: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1386:
1.301 jose 1387:
1.191 jufi 1388: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1389: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1390:
1391: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1392: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1393:
1.212 horacio 1394: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1395: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1396: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1397:
1.211 horacio 1398: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1399: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1400: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1401:
1.247 jufi 1402: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1403: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1404:
1.247 jufi 1405: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1406: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1407:
1.212 horacio 1408: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1409: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1410: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1411:
1412: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1413: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1414:
1415: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1416: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1417:
1.301 jose 1418: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1419: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1420:
1.191 jufi 1421: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1422: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1423:
1424: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1425: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1426:
1.192 jufi 1427: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1428: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1429: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1430:
1.193 deraadt 1431: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1432: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1433: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1434:
1.247 jufi 1435: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1436: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1437:
1.247 jufi 1438: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1439: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1440: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1441:
1.213 horacio 1442: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1443: 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 1444: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1445:
1.190 horacio 1446: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1447: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1448: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1449: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1450: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1451: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1452: <p>
1.190 horacio 1453:
1.247 jufi 1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1455: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1456: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1457: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1458: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1459:
1.195 jufi 1460: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1461: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1462: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1463: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1464: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1465: <p>
1466:
1.247 jufi 1467: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1468: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1469: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1470: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1471: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1472:
1.191 jufi 1473: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1474: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1475: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1476: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1477: <p>
1478:
1479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1480: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1481: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1482: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1483:
1484: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1485: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1486: <p>
1.247 jufi 1487: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1488:
1.191 jufi 1489:
1.186 jufi 1490: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1491: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1492:
1.247 jufi 1493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1494: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1495: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1496: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1497: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1498:
1.188 jufi 1499: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1500: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1501: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1502: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1503: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1504: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1505: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1506: <p>
1507:
1.301 jose 1508: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1509: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1510: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1511: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1512:
1513: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1514: <p>
1.191 jufi 1515:
1.247 jufi 1516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1517: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1518: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1519: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1520: </strong></font><br>
1521:
1522: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1523: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1524: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1525: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1526: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1527: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1528: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1529: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1530: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1531: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1532: familiar?
1533: <p>
1.247 jufi 1534: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1535:
1.178 louis 1536: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1537: <ul>
1.178 louis 1538:
1.247 jufi 1539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1540: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1541: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1542: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1543: </strong></font><br>
1544:
1545: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1546: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1547: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1548: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1549: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1550: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1551: <p>
1552:
1.247 jufi 1553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1554: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1555: Open source under the hood</a>,
1556: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1557: </strong></font><br>
1558:
1559: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1560: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1561: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1562: <p>
1563:
1.247 jufi 1564: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1565: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1566: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1567: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1568: </strong></font><br>
1569:
1570: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1571: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1572: <p>
1.247 jufi 1573: </ul>
1.179 louis 1574:
1.174 louis 1575:
1.175 louis 1576: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1577: <ul>
1.175 louis 1578:
1.247 jufi 1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1580: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1581: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1582: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1583: </strong></font><br>
1584:
1585: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1586: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1587: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1588: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1589: <p>
1590:
1.247 jufi 1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1592: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1593: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1594: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1595: </strong></font><br>
1596:
1597: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1598: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1599: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1600: <p>
1.247 jufi 1601: </ul>
1.175 louis 1602:
1.176 louis 1603:
1.172 mickey 1604: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1605: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1606:
1.247 jufi 1607: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1608: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1609: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1610: </strong></font><br>
1611:
1612: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1613: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1614: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1615: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1616: <p>
1617:
1.247 jufi 1618: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1619: <a
1.269 deraadt 1620: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1621: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1622: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1623: </strong></font><br>
1624:
1625: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1626: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1627: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1628: <p>
1629:
1.247 jufi 1630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1631: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1632: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1633: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1634: </strong></font><br>
1635:
1636: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1637: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1638: <p>
1639:
1.247 jufi 1640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1641: <a
1.269 deraadt 1642: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1643: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1644: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1645: </strong></font><br>
1646:
1647: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1648: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1649: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1650: our own Theo de Raadt.
1651: <p>
1652:
1.247 jufi 1653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1654: <a
1.269 deraadt 1655: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1656: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1657: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1658: </strong></font><br>
1659:
1660: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1661: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1662: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1663: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1664: shut down.]
1665: <p>
1666:
1.247 jufi 1667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1668: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1669: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1670: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1671: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1672: </strong></font><br>
1673:
1674: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1675: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1676: <p>
1.247 jufi 1677: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1678:
1.161 louis 1679: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1680: <ul>
1.161 louis 1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1683: <a
1.269 deraadt 1684: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1685: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1686: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1689: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1690: by John Wolley
1691: <p>
1692:
1.247 jufi 1693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1694: <a
1.269 deraadt 1695: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1696: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1697: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1698: </strong></font><br>
1699:
1700: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1701: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1702: OpenBSD).
1703: <p>
1704:
1.247 jufi 1705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1706: <a
1.247 jufi 1707: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1708: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1709: </strong></font><br>
1710:
1711: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1712: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1713: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1714: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1715: and hindsight.
1716: <p>
1717:
1.247 jufi 1718: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1719: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1720: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1721: </strong></font><br>
1722:
1723: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1724: <p>
1725:
1.247 jufi 1726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1727: <a
1.168 provos 1728: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1729: December 7, 2000
1730: </strong></font><br>
1731:
1732: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1733: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1734: us explain.
1735: <p>
1736:
1.247 jufi 1737: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1738: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1739: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1740: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1741: December 6, 2000
1742: </strong></font><br>
1743:
1744: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1745: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1746: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1747: <p>
1748:
1.247 jufi 1749: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1750: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1751: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1752: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1753: </strong></font><br>
1754:
1755: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1756: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1757: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1758: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1759: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1760: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1761: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1762: <p>
1763:
1764: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1765: <a
1.226 horacio 1766: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1767: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1768: </strong></font><br>
1769:
1770: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1771: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1772: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1773: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1774: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1775: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1776: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1777: <p>
1.162 millert 1778:
1.247 jufi 1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1780: <a
1.161 louis 1781: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1782: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1783: </strong></font><br>
1784:
1785: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1786: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1787: <p>
1788:
1.247 jufi 1789: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1790: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1791: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1792: </strong></font><br>
1793:
1794: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1795: <p>
1796:
1797:
1.247 jufi 1798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1799: <a
1.226 horacio 1800: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1801: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1802: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1803: </strong></font><br>
1804:
1805: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1806: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1807: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1808: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1809: <p>
1.247 jufi 1810: </ul>
1.169 louis 1811:
1.158 louis 1812: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1813: <ul>
1.147 louis 1814:
1.247 jufi 1815: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1816: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1817: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1818: </strong></font><br>
1819:
1820: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1821: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1822: <p>
1823:
1.247 jufi 1824: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1825: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1826: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1827: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1828: </strong></font><br>
1829: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1830: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1831: <p>
1832:
1.247 jufi 1833: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1834: <a
1835: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1836: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1837: </strong></font><br>
1838:
1839: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1840: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1841: <p>
1842:
1.247 jufi 1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1844: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1845: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1846: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1847:
1.213 horacio 1848: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1849: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1850: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1851: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1852: <p>
1.215 horacio 1853:
1.247 jufi 1854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1855: <a
1856: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1857: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1858: </strong></font><br>
1859:
1860: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1861: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1862: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1863: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1864: much of the attitude too).
1865: <p>
1.161 louis 1866:
1.247 jufi 1867: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1868: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1869: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1870: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1871:
1.157 louis 1872: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1873: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1874: <p>
1.247 jufi 1875: </ul>
1.157 louis 1876:
1877: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1878: <ul>
1.157 louis 1879:
1.247 jufi 1880: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1881: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1882: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1883: </strong></font><br>
1884:
1885: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1886: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1887: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1888: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1889: <p>
1890:
1.247 jufi 1891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1892: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1893: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1894: </strong></font><br>
1895:
1896: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1897: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1898: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1899: it because they love coding...
1900: <p>
1901:
1.247 jufi 1902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1903: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1904: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1905: </strong></font><br>
1906:
1907: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1908: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1909: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1910: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1911: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1912: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1913: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1914: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1915: <p>
1916:
1.247 jufi 1917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1918: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1919: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1920: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1921: </strong></font><br>
1922:
1923: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1924: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1925: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1926: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1927: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1928: the pizza.
1929: <p>
1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1932: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1933: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1934: </strong></font><br>
1935:
1936: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1937: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1938: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1939: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1940: problems.
1941: <p>
1942:
1.247 jufi 1943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1944: <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 1945: </strong></font><br>
1946:
1.222 miod 1947: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1948: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1949: - whether they like it or not.
1950: <p>
1951:
1.247 jufi 1952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1953: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1954: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1955: </strong></font><br>
1956:
1957: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
1958: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
1959: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 1960: <p>
1.148 aaron 1961:
1.247 jufi 1962: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1963: <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 1964: </strong></font><br>
1965:
1966: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
1967: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
1968: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
1969: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
1970: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
1971: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
1972: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
1973: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
1974: <p>
1975:
1.247 jufi 1976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1977: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
1978: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 1979: </strong></font><br>
1980:
1981: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
1982: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
1983: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
1984: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
1985: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
1986: <p>
1.247 jufi 1987: </ul>
1.147 louis 1988:
1.138 louis 1989: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1990: <ul>
1.138 louis 1991:
1.247 jufi 1992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1993: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1994: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
1995: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
1996: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 1997: </strong></font><br>
1998:
1.227 horacio 1999: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2000: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2001: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2002: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2003: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2004: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2005: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2006: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2007: <p>
2008:
1.247 jufi 2009: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2010: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2011: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2012: </strong></font><br>
2013:
2014: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2015: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2016: groups, and even Linux.
2017: <p>
2018:
1.247 jufi 2019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2020: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2021: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2022: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2023: </strong></font><br>
2024:
2025: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2026: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2027: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2028: library after installing the OS.
2029: <p>
2030:
1.247 jufi 2031: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2032: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2033: Sys Admin, September 2000
2034: </strong></font><br>
2035:
2036: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2037: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2038: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2039: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2040: (<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>,
2041: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2042: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2043: <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 2044: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2045: out of the system.
2046: <p>
2047:
1.247 jufi 2048: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2049: <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
2050: </strong></font><br>
2051:
2052: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2053: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2054: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2055: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2056: the IP filtering and address translation.
2057: <p>
1.301 jose 2058:
2059: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2060: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2061: </strong></font><br>
2062:
2063: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2064: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2065: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2066: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2067: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2068: <p>
1.247 jufi 2069: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2070:
1.131 louis 2071: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2072: <ul>
1.131 louis 2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2075: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2076: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2077: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2078: </strong></font><br>
2079:
2080: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2081: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2082: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2083: <p>
2084:
1.247 jufi 2085: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2086: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2087: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2088: </strong></font><br>
2089:
2090: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2091: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2092: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2093: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2094: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2095: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2096: note of"</i>.
2097: <p>
2098:
1.247 jufi 2099: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2100: <a
1.247 jufi 2101: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2102: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2103: </strong></font><br>
2104:
2105: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2106: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2107: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2108: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2109: <p>
2110:
1.247 jufi 2111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2112: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2113: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2114: </strong></font><br>
2115:
2116: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2117: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2118: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2119: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2120: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2121: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2122: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2123: <p>
2124:
1.247 jufi 2125: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2126: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2127: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2128: 2000
2129: </strong></font><br>
2130:
2131: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2132: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2133: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2134: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2135: against current industry practices.
2136: <p>
2137:
1.247 jufi 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2139: <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
2140: </strong></font><br>
2141:
2142: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2143: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2144: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2145: <p>
2146:
1.247 jufi 2147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2148: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2149: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2150: </strong></font><br>
2151:
2152: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2153: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2154: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2155: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2156: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2157: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2158: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2159: <p>
2160:
1.247 jufi 2161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2162: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2163: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2164: </strong></font><br>
2165:
2166: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2167: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2168: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2169: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2170: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2171: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2172: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2173: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2174: <p>
1.247 jufi 2175: </ul>
1.131 louis 2176:
1.118 louis 2177: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2178: <ul>
1.118 louis 2179:
1.247 jufi 2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2181: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2182: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2183: </strong></font><br>
2184:
2185: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2186: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2187: about time. The article mentions that
2188: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2189: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2190: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2191: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2192: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2193: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2194: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2195: <p>
2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2198: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2199: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2200: </strong></font><br>
2201:
2202: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2203: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2204: of OpenSSH.
2205: <p>
2206:
1.247 jufi 2207: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2208: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2209: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2210: </strong></font><br>
2211:
2212: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2213: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2214: bridging.
2215: <p>
2216:
1.247 jufi 2217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2218: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2219: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2220: </strong></font><br>
2221:
1.121 deraadt 2222: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2223: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2224: <p>
2225:
1.247 jufi 2226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2227: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2228: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2229: </strong></font><br>
2230:
2231: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2232: <p>
2233:
1.247 jufi 2234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2235: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2236: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2237: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2238: </strong></font><br>
2239:
1.120 deraadt 2240: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2241: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2242: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2243: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2244: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2245: <p>
2246:
1.247 jufi 2247: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2248: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2249: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2250: </strong></font><br>
2251:
1.222 miod 2252: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2253: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2254: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2255: protocols and their quirks.
2256: <p>
2257:
1.247 jufi 2258: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2259: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2260: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2261: </strong></font><br>
2262:
2263: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2264: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2265: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2266: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2267: <p>
2268:
1.247 jufi 2269: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2270: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2271: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2272: </strong></font><br>
2273:
2274: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2275: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2276: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2277: <p>
2278:
1.247 jufi 2279: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2280: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2281: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2282: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2283: </strong></font><br>
2284:
2285: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2286: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2287: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2288: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2289: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2290: <p>
1.247 jufi 2291: </ul>
1.118 louis 2292:
1.104 louis 2293: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2294: <ul>
1.104 louis 2295:
1.247 jufi 2296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2297: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2298: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2299: </strong></font><br>
2300:
2301: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2302: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2303: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2304: be a bit dry.
2305: <p>
2306:
1.247 jufi 2307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2308: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2309: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2310: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2311: </strong></font><br>
2312: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2313: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2314: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2315: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2316: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2317: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2318: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2319: <p>
2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2322: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2323: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2324: 2000
1.128 louis 2325: </strong></font><br>
2326:
2327: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2328: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2329: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2330: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2331: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2332: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2333: <p>
2334:
1.247 jufi 2335: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2336: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2337: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2338: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2339:
2340: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2341: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2342: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2343: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2344: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2345: <p>
1.110 louis 2346:
1.247 jufi 2347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2348: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2349: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2353: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2354: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2355: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2356: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2357: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2358: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2359: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2360: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2361: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2362: <p>
2363:
1.247 jufi 2364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2365: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2366: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2367:
2368: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2369: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2370: <p>
1.108 louis 2371:
1.247 jufi 2372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2373: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2374: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2375: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2376:
2377: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2378: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2379: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2380: <p>
1.106 louis 2381:
1.247 jufi 2382: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2383: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2384: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2385: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2386:
2387: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2388: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2389: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2390: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2391: <p>
1.107 louis 2392:
1.247 jufi 2393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2394: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2395: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2396: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2397:
2398: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2399: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2400: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2401: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2402: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2403: <p>
1.105 louis 2404:
1.247 jufi 2405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2406: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2407: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2408: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2409:
1.113 naddy 2410: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2411: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2412: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2413: <p>
1.104 louis 2414:
1.247 jufi 2415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2416: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2417: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2418: </strong></font><br>
2419:
2420: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2421: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2422: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2423: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2424: <p>
1.301 jose 2425:
2426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2427: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2428: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2429: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2430:
2431: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2432: hardware-supported cryptography.
2433: <p>
1.247 jufi 2434: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2435:
1.85 louis 2436: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2437: <ul>
1.85 louis 2438:
1.247 jufi 2439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2440: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2441: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2442: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2443:
2444: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2445: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2446: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2447: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2448: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2449: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2450: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2451: <p>
1.99 louis 2452:
1.247 jufi 2453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2454: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2455: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2456: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2457:
2458: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2459: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2460: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2461: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2462: <p>
1.100 louis 2463:
1.247 jufi 2464: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2465: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2466: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2467: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2468:
2469: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2470: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2471: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2472: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2473: <p>
1.95 louis 2474:
1.247 jufi 2475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2476: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2477: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2478: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2479:
2480: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2481: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2482: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2483: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2484: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2485: <p>
1.92 louis 2486:
1.247 jufi 2487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2488: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2489: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2490: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2491:
2492: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2493: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2494: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2495: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2496: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2497: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2498: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2499: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2500: <p>
1.91 louis 2501:
1.247 jufi 2502: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2503: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2504: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2505: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2506:
2507: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2508: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2509: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2510: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2511: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2512: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2513: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2514: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2515: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2516: <p>
1.90 louis 2517:
1.247 jufi 2518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2519: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2520: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2521: </strong></font><br>
2522: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2523: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2524: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2525: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2526: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2527: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2528: <p>
2529:
1.247 jufi 2530: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2531: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2532: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2533: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2534:
1.113 naddy 2535: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2536: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2537: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2538: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2539: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2540: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2541: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2542: <p>
1.87 louis 2543:
1.247 jufi 2544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2545: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2546: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2547: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2548:
2549: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2550: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2551: <p>
1.85 louis 2552:
1.247 jufi 2553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2554: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2555: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2556: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2557:
2558: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2559: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2560: <p>
2561:
2562: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2563: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2564: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2565: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2566:
2567: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2568: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2569: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2570: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2571: <p>
1.89 louis 2572:
1.247 jufi 2573: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2574: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2575: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2576: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2577:
2578: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2579: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2580: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2581: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2582: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2583: </ul>
1.85 louis 2584:
1.78 deraadt 2585: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2586: <ul>
1.74 louis 2587:
1.247 jufi 2588: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2589: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2590: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2591: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2592: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2593:
2594: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2595: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2596: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2597: <p>
1.83 louis 2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2600: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2601: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2602: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2603:
2604: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2605: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2606: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2607: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2608: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2609: <p>
1.93 louis 2610:
1.247 jufi 2611: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2612: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2613: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2614: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2615: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2616:
1.83 louis 2617: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2618: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2619: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2620: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2621: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2622: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2623: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2624: <p>
1.82 aaron 2625:
1.247 jufi 2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2627: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2628: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2629: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2630:
1.83 louis 2631: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2632: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2633: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2634: <p>
1.80 louis 2635:
1.247 jufi 2636: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2637: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2638: Bad Press</a>,
2639: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2640: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2641:
2642: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2643: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2644: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2645: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2646: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2647: <p>
1.247 jufi 2648: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2649:
2650: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2651: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2654: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2655: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2656: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2657: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2658:
2659: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2660: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2661: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2662: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2663: <p>
1.74 louis 2664:
1.247 jufi 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2666: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2667: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2668: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2669:
1.219 horacio 2670: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2671: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2672: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2673: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2674: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2675: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2676: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2677: <p>
1.88 louis 2678:
1.247 jufi 2679: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2680: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2681: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2682: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2683:
2684: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2685: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2686: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2687: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2688: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2689: <p>
1.81 louis 2690:
1.247 jufi 2691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2692: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2693: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2694: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2695:
2696: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2697: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2698: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2699: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2700: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2701: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2702: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2703: <p>
1.90 louis 2704:
1.247 jufi 2705: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2706: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2707: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2708: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2709:
2710: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2711: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2712: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2713: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2714: <p>
1.247 jufi 2715: </ul>
1.71 louis 2716:
1.69 deraadt 2717: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2718: <ul>
1.70 louis 2719:
1.247 jufi 2720: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2721: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2722: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2723: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2724:
2725: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2726: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2727: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2728: <p>
1.70 louis 2729:
1.247 jufi 2730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2731: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2732: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2733: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2734:
2735: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2736: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2737: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2738: <p>
1.68 louis 2739:
1.247 jufi 2740: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2741: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2742: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2743: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2744: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2745:
1.111 jufi 2746: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2747: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2748: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2749: "secure by default" installation.
2750: <p>
1.64 louis 2751:
1.247 jufi 2752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2753: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2754: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2755: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2756:
1.113 naddy 2757: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2758: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2759: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2760: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2761: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2762: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2763: <p>
1.66 louis 2764:
1.247 jufi 2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2766: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2767: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2768: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2769:
2770: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2771: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2772: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2773: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2774: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2775: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2776: <p>
1.83 louis 2777:
1.247 jufi 2778: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2779: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2780: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2781: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2782:
2783: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2784: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2785: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2786: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2787: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2788: <p>
1.64 louis 2789:
1.247 jufi 2790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2791: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2792: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2793: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2794:
2795: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2796: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2797: <p>
1.301 jose 2798:
2799: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2800: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2801: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2802: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2803: </strong></font><br>
2804:
2805: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2806: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2807: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2808: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2809: Giving way to
2810: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2811: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2812: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2813: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2814: <p>
1.247 jufi 2815: </ul>
1.65 louis 2816:
1.69 deraadt 2817: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2818: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2819:
1.247 jufi 2820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2821: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2822: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2823: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2824:
2825: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2826: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2827: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2828: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2829: <p>
1.88 louis 2830:
1.247 jufi 2831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2832: <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 2833: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2834:
2835: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2836: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2837: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2838: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2839: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2840: <p>
1.60 louis 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2843: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2844: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2845: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2846: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2847:
2848: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2849: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2850: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2851: <p>
1.58 louis 2852:
1.247 jufi 2853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2854: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2855: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2856:
2857: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2858: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2859: <p>
1.53 louis 2860:
1.247 jufi 2861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2862: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2863: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2864: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2865:
2866: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2867: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2868: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2869: <p>
1.99 louis 2870:
1.247 jufi 2871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2872: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2873: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2874:
2875: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2876: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2877: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2878: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2879: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2880:
1.247 jufi 2881: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2882: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2883: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2884: </strong></font><br>
2885:
2886: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2887: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2888: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2889: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2890: <p>
2891:
1.247 jufi 2892: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2893: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2894: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2895: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2896:
2897: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2898: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2899: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2900:
1.247 jufi 2901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2902: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2903: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2904:
2905: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2906: in
1.247 jufi 2907: <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 2908: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2909: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2910: <p>
1.53 louis 2911:
1.247 jufi 2912: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2913: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2914: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2915: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2916: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2917:
1.58 louis 2918: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2919: <p>
1.301 jose 2920:
2921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2922: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2923: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2924: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2925: Informacyjny, January 2000
2926: </strong></font><br>
2927:
2928: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2929: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2930: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2931: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2932: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2933: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2934: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2935: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2936: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2937: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2938: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2939: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2940: <p>
2941:
2942: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2943: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2944: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2945: </strong></font><br>
2946:
2947: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2948: <p>
2949: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2950:
1.69 deraadt 2951: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2952: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2955: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2956: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2957: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 2958: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 2959:
1.58 louis 2960: Kurt Seifried
2961: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
2962: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
2963: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 2964: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 2965:
1.247 jufi 2966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2967: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 2968: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 2969: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 2970:
2971: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2972: <p>
1.96 louis 2973:
1.247 jufi 2974: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2975: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
2976: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
2977: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
2978: </strong></font><br>
2979:
2980: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
2981: <p>
2982:
2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2984: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 2985: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 2986: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 2987:
2988: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
2989: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
2990: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
2991: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 2992: <p>
1.247 jufi 2993: </ul>
1.86 louis 2994:
1.69 deraadt 2995: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2996: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2997:
1.247 jufi 2998: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 2999: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3000: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3001: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3002:
3003: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3004: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3005: <p>
1.61 louis 3006:
1.247 jufi 3007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3008: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3009: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3010: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3011: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3012:
3013: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3014: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3015: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3016: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3017: right -- or at least strives to".
3018: <p>
1.48 louis 3019:
1.247 jufi 3020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3021: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3022: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3023: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3024: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3025: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3026: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3027: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3028: <p>
1.61 louis 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <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 3031: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3032: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3033:
3034: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3035: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3036: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3037: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3038: <p>
1.46 louis 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3041: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3042: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3043: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3044:
3045: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3046: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3047: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3050: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3051: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3052: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3053:
3054: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3055: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3056: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3057: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3058: <p>
1.247 jufi 3059: </ul>
1.70 louis 3060:
1.69 deraadt 3061: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3062: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3063:
1.247 jufi 3064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3065: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3066: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3067: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3068: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3069:
3070: Kurt Seifried
3071: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3072: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3073: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3074: <p>
1.44 philen 3075:
1.247 jufi 3076: <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 3077: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3078: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3079:
3080: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3081: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3082:
1.247 jufi 3083: <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 3084: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3085: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3086:
3087: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3088: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3089:
1.247 jufi 3090: <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 3091: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3092: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3093:
3094: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3095: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3096: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3097: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3098: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3099:
1.247 jufi 3100: <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 3101: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3102: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3103:
1.36 louis 3104: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3105: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3106:
1.247 jufi 3107: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3108: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3109: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3110: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3111:
3112: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3113: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3114: </ul>
1.38 louis 3115:
1.69 deraadt 3116: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3117: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3118:
1.247 jufi 3119: <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 3120: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3121: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3122:
3123: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3124: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3125: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3126:
1.113 naddy 3127: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3128: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3129: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3130: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3131:
3132: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3133: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3134: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3135: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3136: <blockquote>
3137: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3138: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3139: <br>
3140: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3141: </code>
3142: </blockquote>
3143: <p>
3144:
1.247 jufi 3145: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3146: <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>
3147: <p>
3148:
3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3150: <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 3151: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3152:
3153: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3154: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3155: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3156: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3157:
1.247 jufi 3158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3159: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3160: Sept. 28, 1999
3161: </strong></font><br>
3162:
3163: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3164: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3165: translating and reprinting articles from
3166: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3167: <p>
3168:
3169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3170: <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 3171: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3172:
3173: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3174: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3175: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3176: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3177: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3178: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3179: <p>
1.19 louis 3180:
1.113 naddy 3181: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3182: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3183: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3184:
3185: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3186: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3187: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3188: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3189: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3190: <p>
1.16 louis 3191:
1.247 jufi 3192: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3193: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3194: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3195: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3196:
1.57 louis 3197: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3198: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3199: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3200: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3203: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3204: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3205: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3206:
1.113 naddy 3207: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3208:
1.247 jufi 3209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3210: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3211: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3212: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3213:
1.23 louis 3214: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3215: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3216: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3217: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3218: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3219: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3220:
1.247 jufi 3221: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3222: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3223: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3224: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3225:
1.199 pvalchev 3226: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3227: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3228: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3229: installation.
1.113 naddy 3230: <p>
1.47 louis 3231:
1.247 jufi 3232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3233: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3234: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3235: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3236:
1.301 jose 3237: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3238: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3239: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3240: </ul>
1.57 louis 3241:
1.69 deraadt 3242: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3243: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3244:
1.247 jufi 3245: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3246: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3247: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3248: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3249:
3250: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3251: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3252: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3253: <p>
1.12 louis 3254:
1.247 jufi 3255: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3256: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3257: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3258: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3259:
3260: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3261: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3262: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3263: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3264: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3265: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3266: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3267: <p>
1.247 jufi 3268: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3269:
1.69 deraadt 3270: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3271: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3274: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3275: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3276:
3277: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3278: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3279: available."
1.113 naddy 3280: <p>
1.301 jose 3281:
3282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3283: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3284: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3285: </strong></font><br>
3286:
3287: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3288: <p>
1.247 jufi 3289: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3290:
1.69 deraadt 3291: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3292: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3293:
1.247 jufi 3294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3295: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3296: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3297:
3298: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3299: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3300: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3301: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3302: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3303: <p>
1.33 louis 3304:
1.247 jufi 3305: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3306: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3307: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3308: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3309:
1.113 naddy 3310: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3311: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3312: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3313: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3314: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3315: <p>
1.247 jufi 3316: </ul>
1.57 louis 3317:
1.69 deraadt 3318: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3319: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3322: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3323: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3324: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3325:
3326: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3327: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3328: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3329:
1.247 jufi 3330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3331: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3332: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3333: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3334: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3335:
3336: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3337: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3338:
1.247 jufi 3339: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3340: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3341:
1.113 naddy 3342: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3345: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3346: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3347: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3348:
3349: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3350: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3351: </ul>
1.23 louis 3352:
1.69 deraadt 3353: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3354: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3355:
1.247 jufi 3356: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3357: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3358: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3359:
3360: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3361: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3362: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3363:
1.247 jufi 3364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3365: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 3366: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3367: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3368:
3369: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3370: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3371: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3372: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3373: </ul>
1.57 louis 3374:
1.69 deraadt 3375: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3376: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3377:
1.247 jufi 3378: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3379: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3380: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3381: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3382:
3383: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3384: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3385: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3386: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3387: <p>
1.15 louis 3388:
1.247 jufi 3389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3390: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3391: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3392: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3393:
3394: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3395: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3396: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3397: columns."
1.113 naddy 3398: <p>
1.247 jufi 3399: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3400:
1.69 deraadt 3401: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3402: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3403:
1.247 jufi 3404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3405: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3406: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3407: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3408:
3409: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3410: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3411:
1.113 naddy 3412: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3413: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3414: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3415:
3416: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3417: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3418: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3419: </ul>
1.57 louis 3420:
1.69 deraadt 3421: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3422: <ul>
1.301 jose 3423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3424: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3425: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3426: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3427:
3428: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3429: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3430: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3431: <p>
3432:
3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3434: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3435: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3436: Nov 13, 1998 and
3437: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3438: Datateknik</a>,
3439: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3440:
3441: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3442: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3443: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3444: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3445: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3446:
1.113 naddy 3447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3448: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3449: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3450: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3451:
1.222 miod 3452: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3453: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3454: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3455: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3456: <p>
1.247 jufi 3457: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3458:
1.69 deraadt 3459: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3460: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3461:
1.247 jufi 3462: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3463: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3464: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3465:
1.69 deraadt 3466: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3467: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3468: <p>
1.247 jufi 3469: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3470:
1.69 deraadt 3471: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3472: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3473:
1.247 jufi 3474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3475: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3476: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3477: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3478:
3479: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3480: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3481: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3482:
1.247 jufi 3483: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3484: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3485: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3486: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3487: <p>
1.247 jufi 3488: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3489:
1.69 deraadt 3490: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3491: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3492:
1.247 jufi 3493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3494: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3495: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3496: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3497: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3498: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3499:
3500: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3501: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3502: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3503: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3504: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3505: <p>
1.247 jufi 3506: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3507:
3508: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3509: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3510:
1.247 jufi 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3512: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3513: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3514:
1.69 deraadt 3515: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3516: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3517: <p>
1.112 naddy 3518:
1.247 jufi 3519: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3520: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3521:
1.292 camield 3522: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3523: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3524: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
1.338 ! ian 3525: <br><small>$OpenBSD: press.html,v 1.337 2003/05/01 21:00:04 deraadt Exp $</small>
1.1 deraadt 3526:
3527: </body>
3528: </html>