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1.247 jufi 16: <h2><font color="#e00000">Media Coverage</font></h2>
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1.1 deraadt 18:
1.338 ian 19: <h2>May, 2003</h2>
20: <ul>
21:
22: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 ! deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
! 24: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
! 25: InfoWorld,
! 26: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 27: </strong></font><br>
1.341 ! deraadt 28: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
! 29: <p>
! 30:
1.339 jose 31: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
32: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
33: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 ! deraadt 34: ZDNet,
! 35: May 1, 2003.
! 36: </strong></font><br>
! 37: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
! 38: someone using parts from previous articles.<br>
! 39: This article can also be found online at:
! 40: <ul>
! 41: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 42: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
! 43: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
! 44: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 45: </strong></font>
46: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
47: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
48: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
49: CNET News.com.
50: </strong></font>
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
52: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
53: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
54: ZDNet UK.
55: </strong></font>
56: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
57: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
58: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
59: Help Net Security, Croatia.
60: </strong></font>
61: </ul>
1.341 ! deraadt 62: <p>
1.339 jose 63:
1.341 ! deraadt 64: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
! 65: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
! 66: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
! 67: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
! 68: May 1, 2003.
! 69: </strong></font><br>
! 70: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
! 71: that have been added
! 72: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
! 73: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
! 74: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
! 75: third-party "ports", spamd, many upgrades to included software, and more.
! 76: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
! 77: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
! 78: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 79: <p>
80:
81: </ul>
82:
1.253 ian 83: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
84: <ul>
1.255 ian 85:
1.260 ian 86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 87: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 88: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
89: TechRepublic,
90: April 28, 2003.
91: </strong></font><br>
92: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
93: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 94: work.<br>
95: Can also be found online at:
96: <ul>
97: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
98: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
99: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
100: ZDNet UK.
101: </strong></font>
102: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 103: <p>
104:
105: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 106: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
107: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
108: IDG,
109: April 24, 2003.
110: </strong></font><br>
111: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
112: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
113: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
114: Can also be found online at:
115: <ul>
116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
117: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
118: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 119: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 120: </strong></font>
121: </ul>
122: <p>
123:
124: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
125: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 126: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 127: Slate,
128: April 24, 2003.
129: </strong></font><br>
130: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
131: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
132: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
133: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 137: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
138: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
139: April 24, 2003.
140: </strong></font><br>
141: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
142: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
143: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
144: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
145: <p>
146:
147: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 148: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
149: April 24, 2003.
150: </strong></font><br>
151: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
152: the free software community".
153: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
154: other articles.
155: <p>
156:
157: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
158: <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>,
159: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
160: </strong></font><br>
161: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
162: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
163: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
164: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
165: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
166: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
167: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
168: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
169: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
170: <br/>
171: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
172: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
173: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
174: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 175: <br>
176: Can also be found online at:
177: <ul>
178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
179: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
180: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
181: Common Dreams NewsCenter
182: </strong></font>
183: </ul>
1.324 ian 184: <p>
185:
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
188: Wired, April 24, 2003.
189: </strong></font><br>
190: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
191: article above.
192: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
193: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
194: wasting them."
1.332 ian 195: <br>
196: Can also be found online at:
197: <ul>
198: <li>
199: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
200: </strong></font>
201: </ul>
1.324 ian 202: <p>
203:
204: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 205: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
206: </strong></font><br>
207: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
208: <p>
209:
210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 211: <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.
212: </strong></font><br>
213: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
214: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 218: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
219: April 23, 2003.
220: </strong></font><br>
221: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
222: <p>
223:
224: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 225: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 226: April 22, 2003.
227: </strong></font><br>
228: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
229: <p>
230:
231: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 232: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
233: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
234: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 235: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 236: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
237: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
238: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
239: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
240: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
241: Can also be found online at:
242: <ul>
243: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
244: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 245: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
246: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 247: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
249: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 250: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
251: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 252: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 253: </ul>
254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 257: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
258: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 259: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 260: </strong></font><br>
261: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 262: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
263: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
264: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
265: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
266: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
267: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 268: <p>
269:
270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 271: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
272: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 273: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
274: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 275: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
276: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
277: at UPenn and DARPA.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 281: [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
282: April 18, 2003.
283: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 284: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 288: [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 289: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 290: </strong></font><br>
291: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 295: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
296: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
297: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 298: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 299: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
300: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
301: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 305: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
306: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 307: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 308: </strong></font><br>
309: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
310: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
311: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 312: American century.
1.267 deraadt 313: <p>
314:
315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 316: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
317: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 318: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 319: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 320: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
321: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
322: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
323: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
324: Can also be found online at:
325: <ul>
326: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
327: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 328: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 329: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 330: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 331: <p>
332:
333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 334: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 335: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 336: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 337: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 338: </strong></font><br>
339: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 340: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
341: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
342: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
343: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 344:
345: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
346: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
347: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
348: New York Times.
349: </strong></font>(free registration required)
350:
1.273 deraadt 351: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
352: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 353: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 354: ABC News.
355: </strong></font>
356:
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 358: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 359: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 360: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 361: </strong></font>
362:
363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 364: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 365: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 366: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 367: </strong></font>
368:
369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 370: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
371: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 372: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 373: </strong></font>
374:
375: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 376: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 377: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 378: Times Daily, AL.
379: </strong></font>
380:
381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
382: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
383: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
384: Boston.com, MA.
385: </strong></font>
386:
387: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 388: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 389: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 390: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
391: </strong></font>
392:
393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 394: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
395: [Article was pulled]</a>
396: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 397: </strong></font>
398:
399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
400: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
401: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
402: Infoshop News.
403: </strong></font>
404:
405: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
406: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
407: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
408: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
409: </strong></font>
410:
411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 412: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
413: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
414: Raleigh News, NC.
415: </strong></font>
416:
417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 418: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
419: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
420: Napa News, CA.
421: </strong></font>
422:
423: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 424: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 425: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
426: NEPA News, PA.
427: </strong></font>
428:
429: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
430: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
431: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
432: Wired News.
433: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 434: <br>
435: <li>
1.333 deraadt 436: <font color="#009000"><strong>
437: [JAPANESE]
438: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
439: Wired News Japan</a>
440: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 441:
1.271 deraadt 442: </ul>
443: <p>
1.272 deraadt 444: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
445: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 446: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
447: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
448: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
449: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
450: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
451: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 452: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 453: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
454: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
455: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 456: <p>
457: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 458:
459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 460: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 461: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
462: Indianapolis Star, IN.
463: </strong></font>
464:
465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 466: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
467: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
468: Miami Herald, FL.
469: </strong></font>
470:
471: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 472: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 473: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
474: </strong></font>
475:
476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
477: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 478: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 479: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 480: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 481:
482: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
483: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
484: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
485: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
486: ABC News.
487: </strong></font>
488:
1.276 deraadt 489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
490: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 491: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 492: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 493: </strong></font>
494:
1.286 dhartmei 495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 496: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 497: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
498: Wilmington Star, NC.
499: </strong></font>
500:
1.300 jose 501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
502: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
503: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
504: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
505: </strong></font>
506:
1.309 jose 507: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
508: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
509: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
510: Globe Technology.
511: </strong></font>
512:
1.263 deraadt 513: </ul>
1.262 beck 514: <p>
515:
516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 517: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
518: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 519: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 520: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 521: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 522: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
523: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
524: <p>
525:
526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 527: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
528: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
529: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 530: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 531: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
532: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
533: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
534: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
535: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
536: and simply restates other press reports.
537: <p>
538:
539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 540: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
541: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
542: OS News, April 18, 2003.
543: </strong></font><br>
544: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
545: <p>
546:
547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 548: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
549: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 550: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 551: </strong></font><br>
552: Another report on the DARPA funding.
553: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
554: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
555: <p>
556:
557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 558: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
559: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
560: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
561: April 17, 2003.
562: </strong></font><br>
563: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
564: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
565: Tech Anthems</a>
566: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
567: 4 so far.
568: <p>
569:
570: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 571: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
572: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 573: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 574: </strong></font><br>
575: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
576: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
577: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
578: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
579: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
580: Goes on to say:
581: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
582: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
583: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
584: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 585: This article is also found online at:
586: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
588: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
589: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
590: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 591: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
593: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
594: ZDnet</a>,
595: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 596: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 597: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
598: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
599: ZDnet Australia</a>,
600: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 601: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 602: </ul>
1.260 ian 603: <p>
1.279 deraadt 604:
1.260 ian 605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 606: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 607: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 608: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 609: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 610: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 611: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
612: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
613: without notice or justification.
614: <p>
615:
616: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 617: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 618: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 619: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 620: </strong></font><br>
621: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
622: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 623: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 624: effective today, without any warning..."
625: <p>
1.257 ian 626:
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 628: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
629: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 630: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 631: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 632: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
633: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
634: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
635: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
636: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 637: <p>
638:
639: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 640: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
641: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 642: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 643: </strong></font><br>
644: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
645: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
646: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
647: quoting two of them:
648: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
649: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
650: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
651: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
652: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
653: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
654: <p>
655:
1.255 ian 656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 657: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
658: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 659: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 660: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 661: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 662: <p>
663:
664: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 665: [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 666: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 667: </strong></font><br>
668: New security concepts in OpenBSD
669: <p>
670:
671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 672: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
673: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 674: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 675: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 676: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 677: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
678: security experts for more than three decades."
679: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
680: <p>
1.261 ian 681:
1.254 drahn 682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 683: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 684: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 685: </strong></font><br>
686: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
687: <p>
688:
689: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 690: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
691: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
692: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
693: </strong></font><br>
694: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
695: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
696: discussion OpenBSD's path.
697: <p>
698:
699: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 700: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
701: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 702: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 703: </strong></font><br>
704: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
705: from US DARPA.
706: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
707: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
708: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
709: the BSD license.
710: <p>
711: </ul>
712:
1.251 ian 713: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
714: <ul>
715:
716: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 717: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
718: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
719: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
720: </strong></font><br>
721:
722: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
723: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
724: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
725: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
726: <p>
727:
728: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 729: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
730: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 731: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 732: </strong></font><br>
733: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
734: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
735: Mentions
736: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
737: and
738: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
739: programs.
740: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 741: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 742: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
743: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
744: <p>
1.325 ian 745: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
746: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 747:
748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
749: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
750: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
751: </strong></font><br>
752: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
753: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
754: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
755: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
756: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
757: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
758: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
759: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
760: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
761: put into service."
762: <p>
763: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
764: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
765: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
766: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
767: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
768: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
769: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
770: computers with security features."
771: <p>
1.329 ian 772:
773: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
774: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
775: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
776: Slate,
777: March 3, 2003.
778: </strong></font><br>
779: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
780: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
781: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
782: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
783: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
784: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
785: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
786: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
787: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
788: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
789: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
790: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
791: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
792: of more secure open-source solutions like
793: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
794: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
795: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
796: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
797: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
798: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
799: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
800: the Beltway."
801: <p>
1.251 ian 802: </ul>
803:
1.249 jufi 804: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
805: <ul>
806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
807: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
808: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 809: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 810: </strong></font><br>
811: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
812: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 813: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 814: <p>
1.334 ian 815:
816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
817: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
818: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
819: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
820: </strong></font><br>
821: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
822: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
823: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
824: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
825: "... the hypothetical question ...
826: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
827: <br>
828: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
829: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
830: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
831: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
832: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
833: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 834: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 835: support network security.
836: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
837: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
838: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
839: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
840: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
841: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
842: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
843: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
844: <br>
845: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
846: <p>
847:
1.249 jufi 848: </ul>
849:
1.246 jufi 850: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 851: <ul>
1.246 jufi 852:
1.247 jufi 853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 854: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 855: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
856: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 857: </strong></font><br>
858: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
859: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
860: <p>
861:
1.247 jufi 862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 863: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
864: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
865: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
866: </strong></font><br>
867: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
868: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
869: <p>
870:
871: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 872: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 873: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
874: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 875: </strong></font><br>
876: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
877: in their annual OpenHack security test.
878: <p>
1.247 jufi 879: </ul>
1.246 jufi 880:
1.244 jufi 881: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 882: <ul>
1.246 jufi 883:
1.247 jufi 884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 885: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
886: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
887: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 888: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 889: </strong></font><br>
890: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
891: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
892: md5 digests.
893: <p>
894:
1.247 jufi 895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 896: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 897: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
898: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 899: </strong></font><br>
900: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
901: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
902: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
903: right the first time."
904: <p>
1.247 jufi 905: </ul>
1.244 jufi 906:
907:
908: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 909: <ul>
1.244 jufi 910:
1.247 jufi 911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 912: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 913: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
914: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 915: </strong></font><br>
916: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
917: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
918: part 6</a>.
919: <p>
920:
1.247 jufi 921: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 922: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 923: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
924: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 925: </strong></font><br>
926: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
927: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
928: <p>
1.301 jose 929:
930: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
931: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
932: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
933: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
934: </strong></font><br>
935:
936: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
937: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
938: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
939: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
940: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
941: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
942: <i>Here's the
943: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
944: <p>
1.247 jufi 945: </ul>
1.242 jufi 946:
947: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 948: <ul>
1.242 jufi 949:
1.247 jufi 950: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 951: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 952: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
953: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 954: </strong></font><br>
955: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
956: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
957: <p>
958:
1.247 jufi 959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 960: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 961: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
962: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 963: </strong></font><br>
964: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
965: this time using pf.
966: <p>
1.247 jufi 967: </ul>
1.242 jufi 968:
969: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 970: <ul>
1.242 jufi 971:
1.247 jufi 972: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 973: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 974: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
975: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 976: </strong></font><br>
977: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
978: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
979: their rotation.
980: <p>
981:
1.247 jufi 982: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 983: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 984: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
985: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 986: </strong></font><br>
987: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
988: <p>
1.247 jufi 989: </ul>
1.242 jufi 990:
1.239 jufi 991: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 992: <ul>
1.239 jufi 993:
1.247 jufi 994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 995: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 996: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
997: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 998: </strong></font><br>
999: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1000: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1001: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1002: <p>
1003:
1.247 jufi 1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1005: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1006: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1007: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1008: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1009: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1010: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1011: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1012: <p>
1.247 jufi 1013: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1014:
1.235 lebel 1015: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1016: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1017:
1.239 jufi 1018:
1.247 jufi 1019: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1020: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1021: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1022: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1023: </strong></font><br>
1024: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1025: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1026: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1027: <p>
1.301 jose 1028:
1.247 jufi 1029: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1030:
1.228 horacio 1031: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1032: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1033:
1.247 jufi 1034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1035: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1036: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1037: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1038: </strong></font><br>
1039: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1040: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1041: <p>
1042:
1.247 jufi 1043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1044: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1045: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1046: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1047: </strong></font><br>
1048: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1049: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.247 jufi 1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1053: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1054: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1055: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1056: </strong></font><br>
1057: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1058: on the desktop of his parents.
1059: <p>
1060:
1.247 jufi 1061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1062: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1063: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1064: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1065: </strong></font><br>
1066: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1067: using IPFilter.
1068:
1069: <p>
1070:
1.247 jufi 1071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1072: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1073: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1074: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1075: </strong></font><br>
1076: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1077: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1078: perspectives of the four OS.
1079: <br>
1080: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1081: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1082: <p>
1083:
1.247 jufi 1084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1085: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1086: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1087: software and security</a>,
1088: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1089: </strong></font><br>
1090:
1091: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1092: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1093: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1094: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1095: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1096: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1097: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1098: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1099: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1100: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1101: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1102: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1103: <p>
1.247 jufi 1104: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1105:
1.225 horacio 1106: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1107: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1108:
1.247 jufi 1109: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1110: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1111: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1112: Interview</a>,
1113: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1114: </strong></font><br>
1115:
1116: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1117: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1118: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1119: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1120: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1121: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1122: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1123: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1124: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1125: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1126: of choice.
1127: <p>
1.247 jufi 1128: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1129:
1130: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1131: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1132:
1.247 jufi 1133: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1134: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1135: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1136: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1137: </strong></font><br>
1138:
1139: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1140: <p>
1141:
1.247 jufi 1142: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1143: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1144: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1145: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1146: </strong></font><br>
1147:
1148: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1149: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1150: <p>
1.247 jufi 1151: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1152:
1.218 horacio 1153: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1154: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1155:
1.247 jufi 1156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1157: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1158: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1159: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1160: </strong></font><br>
1161:
1162: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1163: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1164: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1165: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1166: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1167: subjects. Worth a read.
1168: <p>
1169:
1170:
1.247 jufi 1171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1172: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1173: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1174: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1175: </strong></font><br>
1176:
1177: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1178: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1179: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1180: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1181: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1182: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1183: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1184: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1185: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1186: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1187: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1188: on other operating systems.<br>
1189: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1190: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1191: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1192: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1193: <p>
1194:
1.247 jufi 1195: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1196: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1197: Operating System 2010</a>,
1198: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1199: </strong></font><br>
1200:
1201: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1202: covering the level of software integration into the core
1203: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1204: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1205: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1206: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1207: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1208: <p>
1209:
1.247 jufi 1210: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1211: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1212: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1213: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1214: </strong></font><br>
1215:
1216: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1217: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1218: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1219: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1220: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1221: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1222: <p>
1.247 jufi 1223: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1224:
1.210 jufi 1225: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1226: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1227:
1.247 jufi 1228: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1229: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1230: Already a Contender</a>,
1231: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1232: </strong></font><br>
1233:
1234: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1235: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1236: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1237: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1238: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1239: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1240: <p>
1241:
1.247 jufi 1242: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1243: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1244: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1245: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1246: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1247:
1.224 horacio 1248: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1249: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1250: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1251: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1252: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1253: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1254: <p>
1.247 jufi 1255: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1256:
1257: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1258: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1259:
1.247 jufi 1260: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1261: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1262: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1263: Division</a>,
1264: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1265: </strong></font><br>
1266:
1267: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1268: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1269: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1270: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1271: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1272: investment</em>.<br>
1273: The implementation details can be seen on their
1274: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1275: <p>
1276:
1.247 jufi 1277: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1278: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1279: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1280: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1281: </strong></font><br>
1282:
1283: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1284: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1285: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1286: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1287: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1288: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1289: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1290: <p>
1291:
1292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1293: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1294: Thinking about Security</a>,
1295: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1296: </strong></font><br>
1297:
1298: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1299: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1300: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1301: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1302: to time.<br>
1303: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1304: system and just the most secure system.
1305: <p>
1306:
1.247 jufi 1307: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1308: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1309: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1310: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1311: </strong></font><br>
1312:
1313: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1314: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1315: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1316: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1317: choice:<br>
1318: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1319: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1320: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1321: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1322: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1323: network security devices and as such must be well
1324: armored."</em><br>
1325: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1326: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1327: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1328: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1329: <br>
1330: Bravo!
1331: <p>
1.247 jufi 1332: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1333:
1.207 ian 1334: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1335: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1336:
1.247 jufi 1337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1338: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1339: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1340: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1341:
1.207 ian 1342: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1343: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1344: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1345: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1346: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1347: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1348: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1349: <p>
1.247 jufi 1350: </ul>
1.207 ian 1351:
1.194 jufi 1352: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1353: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1354:
1.247 jufi 1355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1356: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1357: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1358: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1359: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1360:
1.240 miod 1361: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1362: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1363: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1364: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1365: <p>
1366:
1.247 jufi 1367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1368: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1369: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1370: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1371:
1372: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1373: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1374: <p>
1375:
1376: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1377: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1378: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1379: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1380:
1381: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1382: <p>
1383:
1384: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1385: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1386: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1387: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1388: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1389:
1.240 miod 1390: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1391: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1392: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1393: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1394: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1395: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1396: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1397: <br>
1398: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1399: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1400: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1401: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1402: <p>
1403:
1.247 jufi 1404: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1405: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1406: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1407: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1408: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1409:
1.194 jufi 1410: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1411: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1412: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1413: <br>
1414: The new
1415: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1416: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1417: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1418: <p>
1.247 jufi 1419: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1420:
1.190 horacio 1421: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1422: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1423:
1.247 jufi 1424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1425:
1426: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1427: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1428:
1.301 jose 1429:
1.191 jufi 1430: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1431: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1432:
1433: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1434: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1435:
1.212 horacio 1436: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1437: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1438: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1439:
1.211 horacio 1440: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1441: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1442: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1443:
1.247 jufi 1444: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1445: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1446:
1.247 jufi 1447: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1448: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1449:
1.212 horacio 1450: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1451: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1452: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1453:
1454: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1455: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1456:
1457: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1458: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1459:
1.301 jose 1460: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1461: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1462:
1.191 jufi 1463: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1464: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1465:
1466: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1467: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1468:
1.192 jufi 1469: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1470: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1471: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1472:
1.193 deraadt 1473: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1474: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1475: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1476:
1.247 jufi 1477: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1478: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1479:
1.247 jufi 1480: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1481: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1482: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1483:
1.213 horacio 1484: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1485: 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 1486: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1487:
1.190 horacio 1488: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1489: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1490: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1491: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1492: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1493: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1494: <p>
1.190 horacio 1495:
1.247 jufi 1496: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1497: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1498: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1499: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1500: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1501:
1.195 jufi 1502: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1503: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1504: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1505: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1506: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1507: <p>
1508:
1.247 jufi 1509: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1510: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1511: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1512: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1513: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1514:
1.191 jufi 1515: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1516: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1517: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1518: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1519: <p>
1520:
1521: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1522: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1523: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1524: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1525:
1526: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1527: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1528: <p>
1.247 jufi 1529: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1530:
1.191 jufi 1531:
1.186 jufi 1532: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1533: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1534:
1.247 jufi 1535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1536: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1537: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1538: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1539: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1540:
1.188 jufi 1541: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1542: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1543: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1544: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1545: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1546: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1547: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1548: <p>
1549:
1.301 jose 1550: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1551: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1552: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1553: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1554:
1555: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1556: <p>
1.191 jufi 1557:
1.247 jufi 1558: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1559: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1560: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1561: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1562: </strong></font><br>
1563:
1564: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1565: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1566: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1567: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1568: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1569: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1570: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1571: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1572: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1573: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1574: familiar?
1575: <p>
1.247 jufi 1576: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1577:
1.178 louis 1578: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1579: <ul>
1.178 louis 1580:
1.247 jufi 1581: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1582: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1583: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1584: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1585: </strong></font><br>
1586:
1587: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1588: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1589: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1590: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1591: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1592: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1593: <p>
1594:
1.247 jufi 1595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1596: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1597: Open source under the hood</a>,
1598: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1599: </strong></font><br>
1600:
1601: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1602: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1603: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1604: <p>
1605:
1.247 jufi 1606: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1607: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1608: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1609: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1610: </strong></font><br>
1611:
1612: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1613: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1614: <p>
1.247 jufi 1615: </ul>
1.179 louis 1616:
1.174 louis 1617:
1.175 louis 1618: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1619: <ul>
1.175 louis 1620:
1.247 jufi 1621: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1622: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1623: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1624: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1625: </strong></font><br>
1626:
1627: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1628: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1629: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1630: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1631: <p>
1632:
1.247 jufi 1633: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1634: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1635: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1636: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1637: </strong></font><br>
1638:
1639: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1640: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1641: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1642: <p>
1.247 jufi 1643: </ul>
1.175 louis 1644:
1.176 louis 1645:
1.172 mickey 1646: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1647: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1648:
1.247 jufi 1649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1650: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1651: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1652: </strong></font><br>
1653:
1654: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1655: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1656: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1657: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1658: <p>
1659:
1.247 jufi 1660: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1661: <a
1.269 deraadt 1662: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1663: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1664: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1665: </strong></font><br>
1666:
1667: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1668: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1669: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1670: <p>
1671:
1.247 jufi 1672: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1673: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1674: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1675: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1676: </strong></font><br>
1677:
1678: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1679: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1680: <p>
1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1683: <a
1.269 deraadt 1684: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1685: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1686: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1689: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1690: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1691: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1692: our own Theo de Raadt.
1693: <p>
1694:
1.247 jufi 1695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1696: <a
1.269 deraadt 1697: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1698: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1699: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1700: </strong></font><br>
1701:
1702: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1703: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1704: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1705: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1706: shut down.]
1707: <p>
1708:
1.247 jufi 1709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1710: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1711: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1712: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1713: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1714: </strong></font><br>
1715:
1716: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1717: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1718: <p>
1.247 jufi 1719: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1720:
1.161 louis 1721: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1722: <ul>
1.161 louis 1723:
1.247 jufi 1724: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1725: <a
1.269 deraadt 1726: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1727: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1728: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1729: </strong></font><br>
1730:
1731: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1732: by John Wolley
1733: <p>
1734:
1.247 jufi 1735: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1736: <a
1.269 deraadt 1737: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1738: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1739: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1740: </strong></font><br>
1741:
1742: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1743: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1744: OpenBSD).
1745: <p>
1746:
1.247 jufi 1747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1748: <a
1.247 jufi 1749: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1750: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1751: </strong></font><br>
1752:
1753: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1754: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1755: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1756: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1757: and hindsight.
1758: <p>
1759:
1.247 jufi 1760: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1761: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1762: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1763: </strong></font><br>
1764:
1765: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1766: <p>
1767:
1.247 jufi 1768: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1769: <a
1.168 provos 1770: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1771: December 7, 2000
1772: </strong></font><br>
1773:
1774: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1775: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1776: us explain.
1777: <p>
1778:
1.247 jufi 1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1780: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1781: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1782: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1783: December 6, 2000
1784: </strong></font><br>
1785:
1786: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1787: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1788: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1789: <p>
1790:
1.247 jufi 1791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1792: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1793: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1794: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1795: </strong></font><br>
1796:
1797: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1798: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1799: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1800: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1801: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1802: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1803: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1804: <p>
1805:
1806: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1807: <a
1.226 horacio 1808: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1809: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1810: </strong></font><br>
1811:
1812: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1813: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1814: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1815: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1816: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1817: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1818: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1819: <p>
1.162 millert 1820:
1.247 jufi 1821: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1822: <a
1.161 louis 1823: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1824: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1825: </strong></font><br>
1826:
1827: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1828: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1829: <p>
1830:
1.247 jufi 1831: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1832: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1833: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1834: </strong></font><br>
1835:
1836: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1837: <p>
1838:
1839:
1.247 jufi 1840: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1841: <a
1.226 horacio 1842: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1843: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1844: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1845: </strong></font><br>
1846:
1847: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1848: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1849: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1850: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1851: <p>
1.247 jufi 1852: </ul>
1.169 louis 1853:
1.158 louis 1854: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1855: <ul>
1.147 louis 1856:
1.247 jufi 1857: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1858: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1859: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1860: </strong></font><br>
1861:
1862: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1863: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1864: <p>
1865:
1.247 jufi 1866: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1867: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1868: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1869: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1870: </strong></font><br>
1871: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1872: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1873: <p>
1874:
1.247 jufi 1875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1876: <a
1877: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1878: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1879: </strong></font><br>
1880:
1881: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1882: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1883: <p>
1884:
1.247 jufi 1885: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1886: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1887: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1888: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1889:
1.213 horacio 1890: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1891: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1892: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1893: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1894: <p>
1.215 horacio 1895:
1.247 jufi 1896: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1897: <a
1898: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1899: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1900: </strong></font><br>
1901:
1902: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1903: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1904: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1905: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1906: much of the attitude too).
1907: <p>
1.161 louis 1908:
1.247 jufi 1909: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1910: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1911: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1912: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1913:
1.157 louis 1914: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1915: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1916: <p>
1.247 jufi 1917: </ul>
1.157 louis 1918:
1919: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1920: <ul>
1.157 louis 1921:
1.247 jufi 1922: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1923: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1924: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1925: </strong></font><br>
1926:
1927: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1928: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1929: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1930: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1931: <p>
1932:
1.247 jufi 1933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1934: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1935: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1936: </strong></font><br>
1937:
1938: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1939: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1940: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1941: it because they love coding...
1942: <p>
1943:
1.247 jufi 1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1945: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1946: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1947: </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1950: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1951: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1952: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1953: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1954: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1955: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1956: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1957: <p>
1958:
1.247 jufi 1959: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1960: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1961: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1962: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1963: </strong></font><br>
1964:
1965: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1966: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1967: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1968: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1969: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1970: the pizza.
1971: <p>
1972:
1.247 jufi 1973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1974: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1975: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1976: </strong></font><br>
1977:
1978: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
1979: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
1980: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
1981: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
1982: problems.
1983: <p>
1984:
1.247 jufi 1985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 1986: <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 1987: </strong></font><br>
1988:
1.222 miod 1989: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 1990: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
1991: - whether they like it or not.
1992: <p>
1993:
1.247 jufi 1994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1995: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
1996: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 1997: </strong></font><br>
1998:
1999: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2000: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2001: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2002: <p>
1.148 aaron 2003:
1.247 jufi 2004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2005: <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 2006: </strong></font><br>
2007:
2008: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2009: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2010: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2011: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2012: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2013: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2014: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2015: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2016: <p>
2017:
1.247 jufi 2018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2019: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2020: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2021: </strong></font><br>
2022:
2023: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2024: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2025: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2026: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2027: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2028: <p>
1.247 jufi 2029: </ul>
1.147 louis 2030:
1.138 louis 2031: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2032: <ul>
1.138 louis 2033:
1.247 jufi 2034: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2035: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2036: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2037: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2038: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2039: </strong></font><br>
2040:
1.227 horacio 2041: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2042: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2043: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2044: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2045: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2046: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2047: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2048: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2049: <p>
2050:
1.247 jufi 2051: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2052: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2053: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2054: </strong></font><br>
2055:
2056: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2057: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2058: groups, and even Linux.
2059: <p>
2060:
1.247 jufi 2061: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2062: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2063: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2064: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2065: </strong></font><br>
2066:
2067: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2068: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2069: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2070: library after installing the OS.
2071: <p>
2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2074: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2075: Sys Admin, September 2000
2076: </strong></font><br>
2077:
2078: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2079: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2080: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2081: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2082: (<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>,
2083: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2084: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2085: <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 2086: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2087: out of the system.
2088: <p>
2089:
1.247 jufi 2090: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2091: <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
2092: </strong></font><br>
2093:
2094: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2095: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2096: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2097: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2098: the IP filtering and address translation.
2099: <p>
1.301 jose 2100:
2101: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2102: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2103: </strong></font><br>
2104:
2105: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2106: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2107: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2108: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2109: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2110: <p>
1.247 jufi 2111: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2112:
1.131 louis 2113: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2114: <ul>
1.131 louis 2115:
1.247 jufi 2116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2117: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2118: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2119: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2120: </strong></font><br>
2121:
2122: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2123: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2124: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2125: <p>
2126:
1.247 jufi 2127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2128: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2129: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2130: </strong></font><br>
2131:
2132: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2133: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2134: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2135: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2136: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2137: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2138: note of"</i>.
2139: <p>
2140:
1.247 jufi 2141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2142: <a
1.247 jufi 2143: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2144: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2145: </strong></font><br>
2146:
2147: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2148: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2149: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2150: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2151: <p>
2152:
1.247 jufi 2153: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2154: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2155: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2156: </strong></font><br>
2157:
2158: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2159: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2160: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2161: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2162: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2163: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2164: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2165: <p>
2166:
1.247 jufi 2167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2168: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2169: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2170: 2000
2171: </strong></font><br>
2172:
2173: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2174: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2175: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2176: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2177: against current industry practices.
2178: <p>
2179:
1.247 jufi 2180: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2181: <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
2182: </strong></font><br>
2183:
2184: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2185: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2186: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2187: <p>
2188:
1.247 jufi 2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2190: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2191: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2192: </strong></font><br>
2193:
2194: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2195: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2196: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2197: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2198: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2199: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2200: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2201: <p>
2202:
1.247 jufi 2203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2204: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2205: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2206: </strong></font><br>
2207:
2208: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2209: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2210: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2211: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2212: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2213: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2214: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2215: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2216: <p>
1.247 jufi 2217: </ul>
1.131 louis 2218:
1.118 louis 2219: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2220: <ul>
1.118 louis 2221:
1.247 jufi 2222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2223: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2224: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2225: </strong></font><br>
2226:
2227: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2228: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2229: about time. The article mentions that
2230: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2231: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2232: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2233: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2234: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2235: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2236: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2237: <p>
2238:
1.247 jufi 2239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2240: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2241: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2242: </strong></font><br>
2243:
2244: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2245: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2246: of OpenSSH.
2247: <p>
2248:
1.247 jufi 2249: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2250: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2251: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2252: </strong></font><br>
2253:
2254: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2255: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2256: bridging.
2257: <p>
2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2260: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2261: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2262: </strong></font><br>
2263:
1.121 deraadt 2264: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2265: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2266: <p>
2267:
1.247 jufi 2268: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2269: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2270: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2271: </strong></font><br>
2272:
2273: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2274: <p>
2275:
1.247 jufi 2276: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2277: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2278: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2279: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2280: </strong></font><br>
2281:
1.120 deraadt 2282: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2283: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2284: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2285: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2286: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2287: <p>
2288:
1.247 jufi 2289: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2290: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2291: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2292: </strong></font><br>
2293:
1.222 miod 2294: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2295: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2296: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2297: protocols and their quirks.
2298: <p>
2299:
1.247 jufi 2300: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2301: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2302: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2303: </strong></font><br>
2304:
2305: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2306: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2307: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2308: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2309: <p>
2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2312: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2313: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2314: </strong></font><br>
2315:
2316: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2317: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2318: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2319: <p>
2320:
1.247 jufi 2321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2322: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2323: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2324: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2325: </strong></font><br>
2326:
2327: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2328: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2329: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2330: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2331: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2332: <p>
1.247 jufi 2333: </ul>
1.118 louis 2334:
1.104 louis 2335: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2336: <ul>
1.104 louis 2337:
1.247 jufi 2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2339: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2340: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2341: </strong></font><br>
2342:
2343: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2344: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2345: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2346: be a bit dry.
2347: <p>
2348:
1.247 jufi 2349: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2350: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2351: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2352: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2353: </strong></font><br>
2354: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2355: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2356: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2357: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2358: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2359: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2360: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2361: <p>
2362:
1.247 jufi 2363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2364: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2365: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2366: 2000
1.128 louis 2367: </strong></font><br>
2368:
2369: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2370: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2371: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2372: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2373: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2374: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2375: <p>
2376:
1.247 jufi 2377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2378: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2379: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2380: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2381:
2382: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2383: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2384: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2385: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2386: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2387: <p>
1.110 louis 2388:
1.247 jufi 2389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2390: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2391: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2392: </strong></font><br>
2393:
2394: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2395: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2396: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2397: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2398: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2399: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2400: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2401: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2402: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2403: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2404: <p>
2405:
1.247 jufi 2406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2407: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2408: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2409:
2410: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2411: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2412: <p>
1.108 louis 2413:
1.247 jufi 2414: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2415: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2416: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2417: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2418:
2419: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2420: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2421: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2422: <p>
1.106 louis 2423:
1.247 jufi 2424: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2425: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2426: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2427: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2428:
2429: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2430: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2431: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2432: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2433: <p>
1.107 louis 2434:
1.247 jufi 2435: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2436: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2437: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2438: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2439:
2440: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2441: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2442: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2443: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2444: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2445: <p>
1.105 louis 2446:
1.247 jufi 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2448: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2449: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2451:
1.113 naddy 2452: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2453: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2454: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2455: <p>
1.104 louis 2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2458: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2459: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2460: </strong></font><br>
2461:
2462: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2463: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2464: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2465: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2466: <p>
1.301 jose 2467:
2468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2469: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2470: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2471: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2472:
2473: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2474: hardware-supported cryptography.
2475: <p>
1.247 jufi 2476: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2477:
1.85 louis 2478: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2479: <ul>
1.85 louis 2480:
1.247 jufi 2481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2482: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2483: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2484: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2485:
2486: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2487: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2488: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2489: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2490: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2491: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2492: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2493: <p>
1.99 louis 2494:
1.247 jufi 2495: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2496: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2497: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2498: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2499:
2500: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2501: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2502: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2503: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2504: <p>
1.100 louis 2505:
1.247 jufi 2506: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2507: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2508: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2509: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2510:
2511: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2512: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2513: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2514: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2515: <p>
1.95 louis 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2518: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2519: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2520: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2521:
2522: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2523: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2524: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2525: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2526: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2527: <p>
1.92 louis 2528:
1.247 jufi 2529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2530: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2531: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2532: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2533:
2534: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2535: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2536: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2537: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2538: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2539: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2540: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2541: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2542: <p>
1.91 louis 2543:
1.247 jufi 2544: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2545: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2546: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2547: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2548:
2549: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2550: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2551: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2552: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2553: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2554: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2555: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2556: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2557: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2558: <p>
1.90 louis 2559:
1.247 jufi 2560: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2561: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2562: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2563: </strong></font><br>
2564: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2565: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2566: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2567: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2568: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2569: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2570: <p>
2571:
1.247 jufi 2572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2573: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2574: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2575: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2576:
1.113 naddy 2577: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2578: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2579: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2580: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2581: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2582: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2583: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2584: <p>
1.87 louis 2585:
1.247 jufi 2586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2587: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2588: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2589: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2590:
2591: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2592: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2593: <p>
1.85 louis 2594:
1.247 jufi 2595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2596: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2597: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2598: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2599:
2600: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2601: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2602: <p>
2603:
2604: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2605: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2606: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2607: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2608:
2609: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2610: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2611: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2612: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2613: <p>
1.89 louis 2614:
1.247 jufi 2615: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2616: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2617: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2618: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2619:
2620: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2621: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2622: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2623: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2624: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2625: </ul>
1.85 louis 2626:
1.78 deraadt 2627: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2628: <ul>
1.74 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2631: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2632: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2633: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2634: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2635:
2636: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2637: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2638: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2639: <p>
1.83 louis 2640:
1.247 jufi 2641: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2642: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2643: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2644: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2645:
2646: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2647: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2648: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2649: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2650: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2651: <p>
1.93 louis 2652:
1.247 jufi 2653: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2654: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2655: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2656: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2657: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2658:
1.83 louis 2659: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2660: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2661: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2662: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2663: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2664: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2665: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2666: <p>
1.82 aaron 2667:
1.247 jufi 2668: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2669: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2670: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2671: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2672:
1.83 louis 2673: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2674: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2675: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2676: <p>
1.80 louis 2677:
1.247 jufi 2678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2679: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2680: Bad Press</a>,
2681: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2682: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2683:
2684: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2685: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2686: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2687: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2688: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2689: <p>
1.247 jufi 2690: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2691:
2692: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2693: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2694:
1.247 jufi 2695: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2696: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2697: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2698: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2699: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2700:
2701: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2702: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2703: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2704: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2705: <p>
1.74 louis 2706:
1.247 jufi 2707: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2708: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2709: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2710: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2711:
1.219 horacio 2712: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2713: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2714: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2715: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2716: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2717: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2718: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2719: <p>
1.88 louis 2720:
1.247 jufi 2721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2722: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2723: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2724: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2725:
2726: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2727: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2728: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2729: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2730: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2731: <p>
1.81 louis 2732:
1.247 jufi 2733: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2734: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2735: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2736: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2737:
2738: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2739: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2740: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2741: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2742: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2743: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2744: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2745: <p>
1.90 louis 2746:
1.247 jufi 2747: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2748: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2749: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2750: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2751:
2752: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2753: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2754: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2755: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2756: <p>
1.247 jufi 2757: </ul>
1.71 louis 2758:
1.69 deraadt 2759: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2760: <ul>
1.70 louis 2761:
1.247 jufi 2762: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2763: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2764: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2765: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2766:
2767: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2768: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2769: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2770: <p>
1.70 louis 2771:
1.247 jufi 2772: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2773: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2774: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2775: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2776:
2777: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2778: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2779: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2780: <p>
1.68 louis 2781:
1.247 jufi 2782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2783: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2784: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2785: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2786: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2787:
1.111 jufi 2788: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2789: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2790: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2791: "secure by default" installation.
2792: <p>
1.64 louis 2793:
1.247 jufi 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2795: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2796: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2797: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2798:
1.113 naddy 2799: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2800: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2801: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2802: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2803: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2804: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2805: <p>
1.66 louis 2806:
1.247 jufi 2807: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2808: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2809: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2810: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2811:
2812: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2813: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2814: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2815: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2816: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2817: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2818: <p>
1.83 louis 2819:
1.247 jufi 2820: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2821: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2822: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2823: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2824:
2825: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2826: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2827: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2828: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2829: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2830: <p>
1.64 louis 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2833: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2834: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2835: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2836:
2837: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2838: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2839: <p>
1.301 jose 2840:
2841: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2842: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2843: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2844: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2845: </strong></font><br>
2846:
2847: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2848: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2849: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2850: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2851: Giving way to
2852: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2853: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2854: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2855: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2856: <p>
1.247 jufi 2857: </ul>
1.65 louis 2858:
1.69 deraadt 2859: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2860: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2861:
1.247 jufi 2862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2863: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2864: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2865: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2866:
2867: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2868: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2869: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2870: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2871: <p>
1.88 louis 2872:
1.247 jufi 2873: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2874: <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 2875: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2876:
2877: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2878: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2879: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2880: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2881: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2882: <p>
1.60 louis 2883:
1.247 jufi 2884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2885: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2886: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2887: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2888: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2889:
2890: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2891: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2892: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2893: <p>
1.58 louis 2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2896: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2897: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2898:
2899: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2900: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2901: <p>
1.53 louis 2902:
1.247 jufi 2903: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2904: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2905: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2906: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2907:
2908: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2909: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2910: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2911: <p>
1.99 louis 2912:
1.247 jufi 2913: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2914: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2915: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2916:
2917: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2918: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2919: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2920: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2921: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2922:
1.247 jufi 2923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2924: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2925: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2926: </strong></font><br>
2927:
2928: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2929: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2930: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2931: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2932: <p>
2933:
1.247 jufi 2934: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2935: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2936: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2937: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2938:
2939: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2940: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2941: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2944: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2945: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2946:
2947: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2948: in
1.247 jufi 2949: <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 2950: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2951: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2952: <p>
1.53 louis 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2955: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2956: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2957: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2958: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2959:
1.58 louis 2960: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2961: <p>
1.301 jose 2962:
2963: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2964: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2965: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2966: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2967: Informacyjny, January 2000
2968: </strong></font><br>
2969:
2970: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2971: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2972: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2973: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2974: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2975: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2976: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2977: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
2978: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2979: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2980: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2981: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
2982: <p>
2983:
2984: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2985: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
2986: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
2987: </strong></font><br>
2988:
2989: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
2990: <p>
2991: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 2992:
1.69 deraadt 2993: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 2994: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2995:
1.247 jufi 2996: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2997: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
2998: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
2999: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3000: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3001:
1.58 louis 3002: Kurt Seifried
3003: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3004: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3005: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3006: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3007:
1.247 jufi 3008: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3009: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3010: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3011: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3012:
3013: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3014: <p>
1.96 louis 3015:
1.247 jufi 3016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3017: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3018: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3019: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3020: </strong></font><br>
3021:
3022: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3023: <p>
3024:
3025: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3026: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3027: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3028: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3029:
3030: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3031: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3032: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3033: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3034: <p>
1.247 jufi 3035: </ul>
1.86 louis 3036:
1.69 deraadt 3037: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3038: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3039:
1.247 jufi 3040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3041: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3042: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3043: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3044:
3045: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3046: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3047: <p>
1.61 louis 3048:
1.247 jufi 3049: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3050: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3051: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3052: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3053: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3054:
3055: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3056: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3057: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3058: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3059: right -- or at least strives to".
3060: <p>
1.48 louis 3061:
1.247 jufi 3062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3063: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3064: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3065: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3066: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3067: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3068: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3069: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3070: <p>
1.61 louis 3071:
1.247 jufi 3072: <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 3073: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3074: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3075:
3076: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3077: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3078: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3079: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3080: <p>
1.46 louis 3081:
1.247 jufi 3082: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3083: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3084: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3085: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3086:
3087: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3088: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3089: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3090:
1.247 jufi 3091: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3092: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3093: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3094: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3095:
3096: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3097: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3098: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3099: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3100: <p>
1.247 jufi 3101: </ul>
1.70 louis 3102:
1.69 deraadt 3103: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3104: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3105:
1.247 jufi 3106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3107: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3108: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3109: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3110: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3111:
3112: Kurt Seifried
3113: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3114: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3115: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3116: <p>
1.44 philen 3117:
1.247 jufi 3118: <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 3119: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3120: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3121:
3122: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3123: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3124:
1.247 jufi 3125: <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 3126: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3127: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3128:
3129: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3130: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <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 3133: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3134: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3135:
3136: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3137: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3138: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3139: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3140: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <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 3143: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3144: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3145:
1.36 louis 3146: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3147: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3148:
1.247 jufi 3149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3150: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3151: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3152: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3153:
3154: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3155: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3156: </ul>
1.38 louis 3157:
1.69 deraadt 3158: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3159: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <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 3162: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3163: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3164:
3165: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3166: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3167: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3168:
1.113 naddy 3169: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3170: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3171: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3172: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3173:
3174: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3175: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3176: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3177: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3178: <blockquote>
3179: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3180: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3181: <br>
3182: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3183: </code>
3184: </blockquote>
3185: <p>
3186:
1.247 jufi 3187: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3188: <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>
1.247 jufi 3189: <p>
3190:
3191: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3192: <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 3193: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3194:
3195: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3196: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3197: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3198: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3199:
1.247 jufi 3200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3201: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3202: Sept. 28, 1999
3203: </strong></font><br>
3204:
3205: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3206: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3207: translating and reprinting articles from
3208: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3209: <p>
3210:
3211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3212: <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 3213: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3214:
3215: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3216: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3217: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3218: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3219: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3220: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3221: <p>
1.19 louis 3222:
1.113 naddy 3223: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3224: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3225: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3226:
3227: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3228: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3229: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3230: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3231: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3232: <p>
1.16 louis 3233:
1.247 jufi 3234: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3235: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3236: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3237: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3238:
1.57 louis 3239: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3240: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3241: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3242: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3243:
1.247 jufi 3244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3245: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3246: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3247: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3248:
1.113 naddy 3249: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3250:
1.247 jufi 3251: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3252: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3253: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3254: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3255:
1.23 louis 3256: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3257: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3258: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3259: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3260: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3261: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3262:
1.247 jufi 3263: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3264: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3265: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3266: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3267:
1.199 pvalchev 3268: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3269: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3270: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3271: installation.
1.113 naddy 3272: <p>
1.47 louis 3273:
1.247 jufi 3274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3275: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3276: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3277: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3278:
1.301 jose 3279: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3280: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3281: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3282: </ul>
1.57 louis 3283:
1.69 deraadt 3284: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3285: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3286:
1.247 jufi 3287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3288: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3289: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3290: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3291:
3292: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3293: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3294: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3295: <p>
1.12 louis 3296:
1.247 jufi 3297: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3298: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3299: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3300: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3301:
3302: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3303: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3304: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3305: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3306: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3307: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3308: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3309: <p>
1.247 jufi 3310: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3311:
1.69 deraadt 3312: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3313: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3314:
1.247 jufi 3315: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3316: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3317: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3318:
3319: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3320: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3321: available."
1.113 naddy 3322: <p>
1.301 jose 3323:
3324: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3325: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3326: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3327: </strong></font><br>
3328:
3329: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3330: <p>
1.247 jufi 3331: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3332:
1.69 deraadt 3333: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3334: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3335:
1.247 jufi 3336: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3337: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3338: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3339:
3340: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3341: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3342: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3343: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3344: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3345: <p>
1.33 louis 3346:
1.247 jufi 3347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3348: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3349: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3350: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3351:
1.113 naddy 3352: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3353: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3354: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3355: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3356: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3357: <p>
1.247 jufi 3358: </ul>
1.57 louis 3359:
1.69 deraadt 3360: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3361: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3362:
1.247 jufi 3363: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3364: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3365: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3366: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3367:
3368: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3369: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3370: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3371:
1.247 jufi 3372: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3373: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3374: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3375: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3376: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3377:
3378: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3379: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3380:
1.247 jufi 3381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3382: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3383:
1.113 naddy 3384: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3385:
1.247 jufi 3386: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3387: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3388: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3389: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3390:
3391: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3392: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3393: </ul>
1.23 louis 3394:
1.69 deraadt 3395: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3396: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3397:
1.247 jufi 3398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3399: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3400: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3401:
3402: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3403: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3404: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3407: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3408: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3409: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3410:
3411: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3412: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3413: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3414: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3415: </ul>
1.57 louis 3416:
1.69 deraadt 3417: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3418: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3419:
1.247 jufi 3420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3421: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3422: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3423: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3424:
3425: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3426: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3427: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3428: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3429: <p>
1.15 louis 3430:
1.247 jufi 3431: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3432: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3433: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3434: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3435:
3436: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3437: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3438: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3439: columns."
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.247 jufi 3441: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3442:
1.69 deraadt 3443: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3444: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3445:
1.247 jufi 3446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3447: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3448: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3449: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3450:
3451: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3452: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3453:
1.113 naddy 3454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3455: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3456: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3457:
3458: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3459: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3460: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3461: </ul>
1.57 louis 3462:
1.69 deraadt 3463: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3464: <ul>
1.301 jose 3465: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3466: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3467: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3468: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3469:
3470: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3471: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3472: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3473: <p>
3474:
3475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3476: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3477: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3478: Nov 13, 1998 and
3479: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3480: Datateknik</a>,
3481: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3482:
3483: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3484: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3485: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3486: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3487: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3488:
1.113 naddy 3489: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3490: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3491: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3492: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3493:
1.222 miod 3494: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3495: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3496: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3497: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3498: <p>
1.247 jufi 3499: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3500:
1.69 deraadt 3501: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3502: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3503:
1.247 jufi 3504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3505: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3506: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3507:
1.69 deraadt 3508: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3509: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3510: <p>
1.247 jufi 3511: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3512:
1.69 deraadt 3513: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3514: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3517: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3518: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3519: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3520:
3521: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3522: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3523: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3524:
1.247 jufi 3525: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3526: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3527: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3528: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3529: <p>
1.247 jufi 3530: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3531:
1.69 deraadt 3532: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3533: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3534:
1.247 jufi 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3536: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3537: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3538: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3539: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3540: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3541:
3542: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3543: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3544: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3545: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3546: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3547: <p>
1.247 jufi 3548: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3549:
3550: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3551: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3552:
1.247 jufi 3553: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3554: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3555: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3556:
1.69 deraadt 3557: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3558: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3559: <p>
1.112 naddy 3560:
1.247 jufi 3561: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3562: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3563:
1.292 camield 3564: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3565: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3566: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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