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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>
1.343 ! deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
! 24: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
! 25: ITBusiness,
! 26: May 2, 2003.
! 27: </strong></font><br>
! 28: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
! 29: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
! 30: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
! 31: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
! 32: <p>
! 33:
! 34: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 35: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
36: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
37: InfoWorld,
38: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 39: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 40: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
41: <br>
42: This article can also be found online at:
43: <ul>
44: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
45: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
46: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
47: IDG Singapore.
48: </strong></font>
49: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 50: <p>
51:
1.339 jose 52: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
53: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
54: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 55: ZDNet,
56: May 1, 2003.
57: </strong></font><br>
58: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 59: someone using parts from previous articles.
60: <br>
1.341 deraadt 61: This article can also be found online at:
62: <ul>
63: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
64: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
65: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
66: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 67: </strong></font>
68: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
69: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
70: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
71: CNET News.com.
72: </strong></font>
73: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
74: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
75: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
76: ZDNet UK.
77: </strong></font>
78: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
79: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
80: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
81: Help Net Security, Croatia.
82: </strong></font>
83: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 84: <p>
1.339 jose 85:
1.341 deraadt 86: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
87: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
88: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
89: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
90: May 1, 2003.
91: </strong></font><br>
92: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
93: that have been added
94: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
95: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
96: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
97: third-party "ports", spamd, many upgrades to included software, and more.
98: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
99: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
100: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 101: <p>
102:
103: </ul>
104:
1.253 ian 105: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
106: <ul>
1.255 ian 107:
1.260 ian 108: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 109: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 110: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
111: TechRepublic,
112: April 28, 2003.
113: </strong></font><br>
114: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
115: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 116: work.<br>
117: Can also be found online at:
118: <ul>
119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
120: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
121: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
122: ZDNet UK.
123: </strong></font>
124: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 125: <p>
126:
127: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 128: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
129: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
130: IDG,
131: April 24, 2003.
132: </strong></font><br>
133: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
134: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
135: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
136: Can also be found online at:
137: <ul>
138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
139: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
140: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 141: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 142: </strong></font>
143: </ul>
144: <p>
145:
146: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
147: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 148: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 149: Slate,
150: April 24, 2003.
151: </strong></font><br>
152: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
153: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
154: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
155: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
156: <p>
157:
158: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 159: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
160: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
161: April 24, 2003.
162: </strong></font><br>
163: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
164: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
165: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
166: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
167: <p>
168:
169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 170: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
171: April 24, 2003.
172: </strong></font><br>
173: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
174: the free software community".
175: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
176: other articles.
177: <p>
178:
179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
180: <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>,
181: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
182: </strong></font><br>
183: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
184: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
185: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
186: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
187: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
188: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
189: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
190: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
191: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
192: <br/>
193: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
194: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
195: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
196: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 197: <br>
198: Can also be found online at:
199: <ul>
200: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
201: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
202: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
203: Common Dreams NewsCenter
204: </strong></font>
205: </ul>
1.324 ian 206: <p>
207:
208: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
209: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
210: Wired, April 24, 2003.
211: </strong></font><br>
212: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
213: article above.
214: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
215: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
216: wasting them."
1.332 ian 217: <br>
218: Can also be found online at:
219: <ul>
220: <li>
221: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
222: </strong></font>
223: </ul>
1.324 ian 224: <p>
225:
226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 227: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
228: </strong></font><br>
229: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
230: <p>
231:
232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 233: <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.
234: </strong></font><br>
235: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
236: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
237: <p>
238:
239: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 240: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
241: April 23, 2003.
242: </strong></font><br>
243: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
244: <p>
245:
246: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 247: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 248: April 22, 2003.
249: </strong></font><br>
250: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
251: <p>
252:
253: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 254: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
255: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
256: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 257: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 258: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
259: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
260: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
261: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
262: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
263: Can also be found online at:
264: <ul>
265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
266: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 267: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
268: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 269: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
271: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 272: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
273: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 274: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 275: </ul>
276: <p>
277:
278: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 279: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
280: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 281: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 282: </strong></font><br>
283: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 284: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
285: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
286: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
287: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
288: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
289: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 290: <p>
291:
292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 293: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
294: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 295: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
296: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 297: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
298: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
299: at UPenn and DARPA.
300: <p>
301:
302: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 303: [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
304: April 18, 2003.
305: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 306: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 310: [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 311: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 312: </strong></font><br>
313: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
314: <p>
315:
316: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 317: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
318: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
319: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 320: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 321: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
322: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
323: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 327: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
328: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 329: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 330: </strong></font><br>
331: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
332: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
333: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 334: American century.
1.267 deraadt 335: <p>
336:
337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 338: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
339: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 340: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 341: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 342: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
343: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
344: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
345: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
346: Can also be found online at:
347: <ul>
348: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
349: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 350: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 351: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 352: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 353: <p>
354:
355: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 356: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 357: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 358: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 359: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 360: </strong></font><br>
361: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 362: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
363: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
364: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
365: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 366:
367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
368: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
369: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
370: New York Times.
371: </strong></font>(free registration required)
372:
1.273 deraadt 373: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
374: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 375: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 376: ABC News.
377: </strong></font>
378:
379: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 380: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 381: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 382: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 383: </strong></font>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 386: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 387: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 388: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 389: </strong></font>
390:
391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 392: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
393: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 394: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 395: </strong></font>
396:
397: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 398: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 399: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 400: Times Daily, AL.
401: </strong></font>
402:
403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
404: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
405: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
406: Boston.com, MA.
407: </strong></font>
408:
409: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 410: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 411: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 412: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
413: </strong></font>
414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 416: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
417: [Article was pulled]</a>
418: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 419: </strong></font>
420:
421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
422: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
423: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
424: Infoshop News.
425: </strong></font>
426:
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
428: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
429: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
430: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
431: </strong></font>
432:
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 434: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
435: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
436: Raleigh News, NC.
437: </strong></font>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 440: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
441: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
442: Napa News, CA.
443: </strong></font>
444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 446: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 447: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
448: NEPA News, PA.
449: </strong></font>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
452: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
453: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
454: Wired News.
455: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 456: <br>
457: <li>
1.333 deraadt 458: <font color="#009000"><strong>
459: [JAPANESE]
460: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
461: Wired News Japan</a>
462: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 463:
1.271 deraadt 464: </ul>
465: <p>
1.272 deraadt 466: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
467: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 468: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
469: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
470: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
471: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
472: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
473: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 474: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 475: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
476: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
477: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 478: <p>
479: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 482: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 483: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
484: Indianapolis Star, IN.
485: </strong></font>
486:
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 488: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
489: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
490: Miami Herald, FL.
491: </strong></font>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 494: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 495: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
496: </strong></font>
497:
498: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
499: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 500: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 501: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 502: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 503:
504: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
505: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
506: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
507: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
508: ABC News.
509: </strong></font>
510:
1.276 deraadt 511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
512: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 513: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 514: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 515: </strong></font>
516:
1.286 dhartmei 517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 518: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 519: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
520: Wilmington Star, NC.
521: </strong></font>
522:
1.300 jose 523: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
524: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
525: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
526: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
527: </strong></font>
528:
1.309 jose 529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
530: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
531: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
532: Globe Technology.
533: </strong></font>
534:
1.263 deraadt 535: </ul>
1.262 beck 536: <p>
537:
538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 539: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
540: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 541: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 542: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 543: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 544: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
545: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
546: <p>
547:
548: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 549: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
550: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
551: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 552: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 553: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
554: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
555: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
556: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
557: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
558: and simply restates other press reports.
559: <p>
560:
561: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 562: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
563: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
564: OS News, April 18, 2003.
565: </strong></font><br>
566: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
567: <p>
568:
569: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 570: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
571: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 572: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 573: </strong></font><br>
574: Another report on the DARPA funding.
575: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
576: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
577: <p>
578:
579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 580: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
581: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
582: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
583: April 17, 2003.
584: </strong></font><br>
585: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
586: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
587: Tech Anthems</a>
588: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
589: 4 so far.
590: <p>
591:
592: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 593: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
594: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 595: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 596: </strong></font><br>
597: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
598: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
599: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
600: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
601: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
602: Goes on to say:
603: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
604: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
605: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
606: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 607: This article is also found online at:
608: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
610: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
611: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
612: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 613: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
615: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
616: ZDnet</a>,
617: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 618: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 619: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
620: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
621: ZDnet Australia</a>,
622: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 623: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 624: </ul>
1.260 ian 625: <p>
1.279 deraadt 626:
1.260 ian 627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 628: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 629: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 630: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 631: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 632: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 633: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
634: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
635: without notice or justification.
636: <p>
637:
638: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 639: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 640: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 641: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 642: </strong></font><br>
643: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
644: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 645: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 646: effective today, without any warning..."
647: <p>
1.257 ian 648:
649: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 650: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
651: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 652: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 653: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 654: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
655: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
656: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
657: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
658: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 659: <p>
660:
661: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 662: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
663: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 664: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 665: </strong></font><br>
666: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
667: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
668: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
669: quoting two of them:
670: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
671: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
672: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
673: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
674: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
675: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
676: <p>
677:
1.255 ian 678: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 679: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
680: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 681: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 682: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 683: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 687: [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 688: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 689: </strong></font><br>
690: New security concepts in OpenBSD
691: <p>
692:
693: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 694: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
695: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 696: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 697: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 698: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 699: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
700: security experts for more than three decades."
701: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
702: <p>
1.261 ian 703:
1.254 drahn 704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 705: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 706: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 707: </strong></font><br>
708: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 712: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
713: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
714: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
715: </strong></font><br>
716: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
717: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
718: discussion OpenBSD's path.
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 722: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
723: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 724: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 725: </strong></font><br>
726: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
727: from US DARPA.
728: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
729: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
730: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
731: the BSD license.
732: <p>
733: </ul>
734:
1.251 ian 735: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
736: <ul>
737:
738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 739: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
740: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
741: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
742: </strong></font><br>
743:
744: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
745: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
746: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
747: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
748: <p>
749:
750: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 751: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
752: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 753: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 754: </strong></font><br>
755: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
756: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
757: Mentions
758: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
759: and
760: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
761: programs.
762: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 763: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 764: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
765: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
766: <p>
1.325 ian 767: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
768: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 769:
770: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
771: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
772: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
773: </strong></font><br>
774: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
775: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
776: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
777: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
778: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
779: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
780: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
781: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
782: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
783: put into service."
784: <p>
785: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
786: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
787: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
788: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
789: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
790: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
791: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
792: computers with security features."
793: <p>
1.329 ian 794:
795: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
796: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
797: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
798: Slate,
799: March 3, 2003.
800: </strong></font><br>
801: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
802: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
803: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
804: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
805: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
806: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
807: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
808: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
809: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
810: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
811: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
812: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
813: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
814: of more secure open-source solutions like
815: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
816: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
817: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
818: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
819: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
820: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
821: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
822: the Beltway."
823: <p>
1.251 ian 824: </ul>
825:
1.249 jufi 826: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
827: <ul>
828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
829: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
830: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 831: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 832: </strong></font><br>
833: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
834: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 835: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 836: <p>
1.334 ian 837:
838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
839: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
840: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
841: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
842: </strong></font><br>
843: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
844: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
845: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
846: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
847: "... the hypothetical question ...
848: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
849: <br>
850: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
851: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
852: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
853: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
854: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
855: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 856: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 857: support network security.
858: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
859: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
860: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
861: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
862: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
863: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
864: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
865: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
866: <br>
867: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
868: <p>
869:
1.249 jufi 870: </ul>
871:
1.246 jufi 872: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 873: <ul>
1.246 jufi 874:
1.247 jufi 875: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 876: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 877: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
878: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 879: </strong></font><br>
880: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
881: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
882: <p>
883:
1.247 jufi 884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 885: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
886: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
887: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
888: </strong></font><br>
889: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
890: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 894: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 895: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
896: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 897: </strong></font><br>
898: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
899: in their annual OpenHack security test.
900: <p>
1.247 jufi 901: </ul>
1.246 jufi 902:
1.244 jufi 903: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 904: <ul>
1.246 jufi 905:
1.247 jufi 906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 907: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
908: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
909: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 910: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 911: </strong></font><br>
912: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
913: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
914: md5 digests.
915: <p>
916:
1.247 jufi 917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 918: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 919: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
920: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 921: </strong></font><br>
922: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
923: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
924: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
925: right the first time."
926: <p>
1.247 jufi 927: </ul>
1.244 jufi 928:
929:
930: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 931: <ul>
1.244 jufi 932:
1.247 jufi 933: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 934: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 935: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
936: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 937: </strong></font><br>
938: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
939: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
940: part 6</a>.
941: <p>
942:
1.247 jufi 943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 944: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 945: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
946: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 947: </strong></font><br>
948: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
949: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
950: <p>
1.301 jose 951:
952: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
953: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
954: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
955: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
956: </strong></font><br>
957:
958: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
959: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
960: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
961: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
962: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
963: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
964: <i>Here's the
965: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
966: <p>
1.247 jufi 967: </ul>
1.242 jufi 968:
969: <h2>July, 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/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 974: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
975: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 976: </strong></font><br>
977: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
978: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
979: <p>
980:
1.247 jufi 981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 982: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 983: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
984: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 985: </strong></font><br>
986: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
987: this time using pf.
988: <p>
1.247 jufi 989: </ul>
1.242 jufi 990:
991: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 992: <ul>
1.242 jufi 993:
1.247 jufi 994: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 995: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 996: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
997: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 998: </strong></font><br>
999: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1000: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1001: their rotation.
1002: <p>
1003:
1.247 jufi 1004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1005: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1006: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1007: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1008: </strong></font><br>
1009: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1010: <p>
1.247 jufi 1011: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1012:
1.239 jufi 1013: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1014: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1015:
1.247 jufi 1016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1017: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1018: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1019: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1020: </strong></font><br>
1021: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1022: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1023: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1024: <p>
1025:
1.247 jufi 1026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1027: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1028: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1029: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1030: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1031: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1032: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1033: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1034: <p>
1.247 jufi 1035: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1036:
1.235 lebel 1037: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1038: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1039:
1.239 jufi 1040:
1.247 jufi 1041: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1042: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1043: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1044: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1045: </strong></font><br>
1046: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1047: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1048: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1049: <p>
1.301 jose 1050:
1.247 jufi 1051: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1052:
1.228 horacio 1053: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1054: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1055:
1.247 jufi 1056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1057: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1058: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1059: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1060: </strong></font><br>
1061: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1062: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1063: <p>
1064:
1.247 jufi 1065: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1066: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1067: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1068: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1069: </strong></font><br>
1070: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1071: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1072: <p>
1073:
1.247 jufi 1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1075: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1076: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1077: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1078: </strong></font><br>
1079: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1080: on the desktop of his parents.
1081: <p>
1082:
1.247 jufi 1083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1084: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1085: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1086: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1087: </strong></font><br>
1088: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1089: using IPFilter.
1090:
1091: <p>
1092:
1.247 jufi 1093: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1094: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1095: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1096: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1097: </strong></font><br>
1098: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1099: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1100: perspectives of the four OS.
1101: <br>
1102: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1103: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1104: <p>
1105:
1.247 jufi 1106: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1107: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1108: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1109: software and security</a>,
1110: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1111: </strong></font><br>
1112:
1113: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1114: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1115: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1116: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1117: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1118: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1119: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1120: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1121: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1122: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1123: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1124: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1125: <p>
1.247 jufi 1126: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1127:
1.225 horacio 1128: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1129: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1130:
1.247 jufi 1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1132: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1133: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1134: Interview</a>,
1135: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1136: </strong></font><br>
1137:
1138: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1139: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1140: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1141: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1142: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1143: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1144: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1145: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1146: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1147: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1148: of choice.
1149: <p>
1.247 jufi 1150: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1151:
1152: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1153: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1154:
1.247 jufi 1155: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1156: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1157: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1158: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1159: </strong></font><br>
1160:
1161: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1162: <p>
1163:
1.247 jufi 1164: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1165: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1166: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1167: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1168: </strong></font><br>
1169:
1170: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1171: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1172: <p>
1.247 jufi 1173: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1174:
1.218 horacio 1175: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1176: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1177:
1.247 jufi 1178: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1179: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1180: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1181: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1182: </strong></font><br>
1183:
1184: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1185: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1186: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1187: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1188: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1189: subjects. Worth a read.
1190: <p>
1191:
1192:
1.247 jufi 1193: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1194: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1195: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1196: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1197: </strong></font><br>
1198:
1199: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1200: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1201: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1202: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1203: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1204: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1205: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1206: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1207: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1208: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1209: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1210: on other operating systems.<br>
1211: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1212: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1213: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1214: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1215: <p>
1216:
1.247 jufi 1217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1218: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1219: Operating System 2010</a>,
1220: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1221: </strong></font><br>
1222:
1223: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1224: covering the level of software integration into the core
1225: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1226: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1227: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1228: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1229: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1230: <p>
1231:
1.247 jufi 1232: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1233: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1234: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1235: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1236: </strong></font><br>
1237:
1238: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1239: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1240: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1241: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1242: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1243: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1244: <p>
1.247 jufi 1245: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1246:
1.210 jufi 1247: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1248: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1249:
1.247 jufi 1250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1251: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1252: Already a Contender</a>,
1253: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1254: </strong></font><br>
1255:
1256: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1257: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1258: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1259: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1260: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1261: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1262: <p>
1263:
1.247 jufi 1264: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1265: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1266: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1267: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1268: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1269:
1.224 horacio 1270: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1271: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1272: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1273: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1274: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1275: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1276: <p>
1.247 jufi 1277: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1278:
1279: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1280: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1281:
1.247 jufi 1282: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1283: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1284: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1285: Division</a>,
1286: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1287: </strong></font><br>
1288:
1289: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1290: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1291: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1292: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1293: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1294: investment</em>.<br>
1295: The implementation details can be seen on their
1296: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1297: <p>
1298:
1.247 jufi 1299: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1300: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1301: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1302: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1303: </strong></font><br>
1304:
1305: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1306: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1307: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1308: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1309: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1310: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1311: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1312: <p>
1313:
1314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1315: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1316: Thinking about Security</a>,
1317: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1318: </strong></font><br>
1319:
1320: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1321: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1322: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1323: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1324: to time.<br>
1325: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1326: system and just the most secure system.
1327: <p>
1328:
1.247 jufi 1329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1330: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1331: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1332: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1333: </strong></font><br>
1334:
1335: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1336: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1337: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1338: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1339: choice:<br>
1340: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1341: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1342: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1343: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1344: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1345: network security devices and as such must be well
1346: armored."</em><br>
1347: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1348: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1349: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1350: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1351: <br>
1352: Bravo!
1353: <p>
1.247 jufi 1354: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1355:
1.207 ian 1356: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1357: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1358:
1.247 jufi 1359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1360: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1361: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1362: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1363:
1.207 ian 1364: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1365: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1366: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1367: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1368: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1369: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1370: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1371: <p>
1.247 jufi 1372: </ul>
1.207 ian 1373:
1.194 jufi 1374: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1375: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1376:
1.247 jufi 1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1378: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1379: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1380: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1381: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1382:
1.240 miod 1383: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1384: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1385: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1386: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1387: <p>
1388:
1.247 jufi 1389: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1390: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1391: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1392: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1393:
1394: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1395: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1396: <p>
1397:
1398: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1399: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1400: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1401: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1402:
1403: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1404: <p>
1405:
1406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1407: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1408: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1409: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1410: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1411:
1.240 miod 1412: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1413: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1414: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1415: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1416: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1417: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1418: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1419: <br>
1420: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1421: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1422: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1423: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1424: <p>
1425:
1.247 jufi 1426: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1427: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1428: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1429: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1430: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1431:
1.194 jufi 1432: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1433: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1434: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1435: <br>
1436: The new
1437: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1438: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1439: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1440: <p>
1.247 jufi 1441: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1442:
1.190 horacio 1443: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1444: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1445:
1.247 jufi 1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1447:
1448: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1449: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1450:
1.301 jose 1451:
1.191 jufi 1452: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1453: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1454:
1455: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1456: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1457:
1.212 horacio 1458: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1459: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1460: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1461:
1.211 horacio 1462: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1463: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1464: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1465:
1.247 jufi 1466: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1467: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1468:
1.247 jufi 1469: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1470: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1471:
1.212 horacio 1472: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1473: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1474: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1475:
1476: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1477: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1478:
1479: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1480: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1481:
1.301 jose 1482: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1483: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1484:
1.191 jufi 1485: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1486: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1487:
1488: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1489: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1490:
1.192 jufi 1491: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1492: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1493: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1494:
1.193 deraadt 1495: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1496: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1497: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1498:
1.247 jufi 1499: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1500: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1501:
1.247 jufi 1502: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1503: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1504: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1505:
1.213 horacio 1506: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1507: 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 1508: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1509:
1.190 horacio 1510: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1511: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1512: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1513: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1514: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1515: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1516: <p>
1.190 horacio 1517:
1.247 jufi 1518: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1519: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1520: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1521: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1522: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1523:
1.195 jufi 1524: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1525: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1526: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1527: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1528: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1529: <p>
1530:
1.247 jufi 1531: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1532: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1533: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1534: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1535: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1536:
1.191 jufi 1537: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1538: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1539: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1540: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1541: <p>
1542:
1543: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1544: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1545: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1546: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1547:
1548: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1549: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1550: <p>
1.247 jufi 1551: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1552:
1.191 jufi 1553:
1.186 jufi 1554: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1555: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1556:
1.247 jufi 1557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1558: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1559: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1560: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1561: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1562:
1.188 jufi 1563: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1564: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1565: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1566: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1567: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1568: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1569: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1570: <p>
1571:
1.301 jose 1572: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1573: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1574: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1575: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1576:
1577: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1578: <p>
1.191 jufi 1579:
1.247 jufi 1580: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1581: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1582: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1583: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1584: </strong></font><br>
1585:
1586: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1587: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1588: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1589: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1590: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1591: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1592: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1593: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1594: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1595: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1596: familiar?
1597: <p>
1.247 jufi 1598: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1599:
1.178 louis 1600: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1601: <ul>
1.178 louis 1602:
1.247 jufi 1603: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1604: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1605: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1606: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1607: </strong></font><br>
1608:
1609: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1610: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1611: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1612: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1613: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1614: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1615: <p>
1616:
1.247 jufi 1617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1618: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1619: Open source under the hood</a>,
1620: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1621: </strong></font><br>
1622:
1623: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1624: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1625: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1626: <p>
1627:
1.247 jufi 1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1629: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1630: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1631: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1632: </strong></font><br>
1633:
1634: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1635: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1636: <p>
1.247 jufi 1637: </ul>
1.179 louis 1638:
1.174 louis 1639:
1.175 louis 1640: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1641: <ul>
1.175 louis 1642:
1.247 jufi 1643: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1644: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1645: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1646: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1647: </strong></font><br>
1648:
1649: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1650: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1651: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1652: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1653: <p>
1654:
1.247 jufi 1655: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1656: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1657: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1658: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1659: </strong></font><br>
1660:
1661: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1662: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1663: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1664: <p>
1.247 jufi 1665: </ul>
1.175 louis 1666:
1.176 louis 1667:
1.172 mickey 1668: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1669: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1670:
1.247 jufi 1671: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1672: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1673: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1674: </strong></font><br>
1675:
1676: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1677: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1678: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1679: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1680: <p>
1681:
1.247 jufi 1682: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1683: <a
1.269 deraadt 1684: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1685: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1686: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1687: </strong></font><br>
1688:
1689: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1690: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1691: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1692: <p>
1693:
1.247 jufi 1694: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1695: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1696: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1697: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1698: </strong></font><br>
1699:
1700: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1701: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1702: <p>
1703:
1.247 jufi 1704: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1705: <a
1.269 deraadt 1706: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1707: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1708: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1709: </strong></font><br>
1710:
1711: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1712: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1713: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1714: our own Theo de Raadt.
1715: <p>
1716:
1.247 jufi 1717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1718: <a
1.269 deraadt 1719: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1720: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1721: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1722: </strong></font><br>
1723:
1724: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1725: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1726: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1727: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1728: shut down.]
1729: <p>
1730:
1.247 jufi 1731: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1732: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1733: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1734: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1735: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1736: </strong></font><br>
1737:
1738: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1739: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1740: <p>
1.247 jufi 1741: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1742:
1.161 louis 1743: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1744: <ul>
1.161 louis 1745:
1.247 jufi 1746: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1747: <a
1.269 deraadt 1748: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1749: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1750: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1751: </strong></font><br>
1752:
1753: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1754: by John Wolley
1755: <p>
1756:
1.247 jufi 1757: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1758: <a
1.269 deraadt 1759: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1760: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1761: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1762: </strong></font><br>
1763:
1764: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1765: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1766: OpenBSD).
1767: <p>
1768:
1.247 jufi 1769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1770: <a
1.247 jufi 1771: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1772: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1773: </strong></font><br>
1774:
1775: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1776: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1777: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1778: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1779: and hindsight.
1780: <p>
1781:
1.247 jufi 1782: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1783: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1784: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1785: </strong></font><br>
1786:
1787: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1788: <p>
1789:
1.247 jufi 1790: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1791: <a
1.168 provos 1792: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1793: December 7, 2000
1794: </strong></font><br>
1795:
1796: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1797: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1798: us explain.
1799: <p>
1800:
1.247 jufi 1801: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1802: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1803: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1804: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1805: December 6, 2000
1806: </strong></font><br>
1807:
1808: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1809: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1810: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1811: <p>
1812:
1.247 jufi 1813: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1814: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1815: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1816: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1817: </strong></font><br>
1818:
1819: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1820: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1821: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1822: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1823: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1824: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1825: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1826: <p>
1827:
1828: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1829: <a
1.226 horacio 1830: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1831: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1832: </strong></font><br>
1833:
1834: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1835: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1836: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1837: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1838: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1839: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1840: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1841: <p>
1.162 millert 1842:
1.247 jufi 1843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1844: <a
1.161 louis 1845: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1846: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1847: </strong></font><br>
1848:
1849: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1850: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1851: <p>
1852:
1.247 jufi 1853: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1854: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1855: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1856: </strong></font><br>
1857:
1858: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1859: <p>
1860:
1861:
1.247 jufi 1862: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1863: <a
1.226 horacio 1864: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1865: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1866: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1867: </strong></font><br>
1868:
1869: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1870: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1871: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1872: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1873: <p>
1.247 jufi 1874: </ul>
1.169 louis 1875:
1.158 louis 1876: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1877: <ul>
1.147 louis 1878:
1.247 jufi 1879: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1880: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1881: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1882: </strong></font><br>
1883:
1884: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1885: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1886: <p>
1887:
1.247 jufi 1888: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1889: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1890: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1891: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1892: </strong></font><br>
1893: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1894: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1895: <p>
1896:
1.247 jufi 1897: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1898: <a
1899: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1900: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1901: </strong></font><br>
1902:
1903: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1904: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1905: <p>
1906:
1.247 jufi 1907: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1908: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1909: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1910: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1911:
1.213 horacio 1912: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1913: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1914: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1915: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1916: <p>
1.215 horacio 1917:
1.247 jufi 1918: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1919: <a
1920: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1921: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1922: </strong></font><br>
1923:
1924: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1925: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1926: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1927: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1928: much of the attitude too).
1929: <p>
1.161 louis 1930:
1.247 jufi 1931: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1932: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1933: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1934: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1935:
1.157 louis 1936: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1937: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1938: <p>
1.247 jufi 1939: </ul>
1.157 louis 1940:
1941: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1942: <ul>
1.157 louis 1943:
1.247 jufi 1944: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1945: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1946: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1947: </strong></font><br>
1948:
1949: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1950: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1951: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
1952: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
1953: <p>
1954:
1.247 jufi 1955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 1956: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
1957: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
1958: </strong></font><br>
1959:
1960: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
1961: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
1962: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
1963: it because they love coding...
1964: <p>
1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 1967: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
1968: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
1969: </strong></font><br>
1970:
1971: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
1972: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
1973: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
1974: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
1975: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
1976: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
1977: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
1978: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
1979: <p>
1980:
1.247 jufi 1981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1982: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
1983: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
1984: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 1985: </strong></font><br>
1986:
1987: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
1988: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
1989: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
1990: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
1991: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
1992: the pizza.
1993: <p>
1994:
1.247 jufi 1995: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 1996: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
1997: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
1998: </strong></font><br>
1999:
2000: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2001: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2002: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2003: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2004: problems.
2005: <p>
2006:
1.247 jufi 2007: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2008: <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 2009: </strong></font><br>
2010:
1.222 miod 2011: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2012: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2013: - whether they like it or not.
2014: <p>
2015:
1.247 jufi 2016: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2017: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2018: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2019: </strong></font><br>
2020:
2021: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2022: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2023: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2024: <p>
1.148 aaron 2025:
1.247 jufi 2026: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2027: <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 2028: </strong></font><br>
2029:
2030: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2031: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2032: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2033: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2034: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2035: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2036: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2037: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2038: <p>
2039:
1.247 jufi 2040: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2041: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2042: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2043: </strong></font><br>
2044:
2045: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2046: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2047: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2048: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2049: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2050: <p>
1.247 jufi 2051: </ul>
1.147 louis 2052:
1.138 louis 2053: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2054: <ul>
1.138 louis 2055:
1.247 jufi 2056: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2057: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2058: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2059: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2060: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2061: </strong></font><br>
2062:
1.227 horacio 2063: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2064: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2065: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2066: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2067: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2068: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2069: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2070: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2071: <p>
2072:
1.247 jufi 2073: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2074: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2075: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2076: </strong></font><br>
2077:
2078: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2079: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2080: groups, and even Linux.
2081: <p>
2082:
1.247 jufi 2083: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2084: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2085: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2086: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2087: </strong></font><br>
2088:
2089: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2090: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2091: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2092: library after installing the OS.
2093: <p>
2094:
1.247 jufi 2095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2096: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2097: Sys Admin, September 2000
2098: </strong></font><br>
2099:
2100: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2101: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2102: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2103: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2104: (<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>,
2105: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2106: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2107: <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 2108: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2109: out of the system.
2110: <p>
2111:
1.247 jufi 2112: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2113: <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
2114: </strong></font><br>
2115:
2116: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2117: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2118: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2119: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2120: the IP filtering and address translation.
2121: <p>
1.301 jose 2122:
2123: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2124: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2125: </strong></font><br>
2126:
2127: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2128: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2129: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2130: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2131: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2132: <p>
1.247 jufi 2133: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2134:
1.131 louis 2135: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2136: <ul>
1.131 louis 2137:
1.247 jufi 2138: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2139: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2140: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2141: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2142: </strong></font><br>
2143:
2144: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2145: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2146: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2147: <p>
2148:
1.247 jufi 2149: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2150: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2151: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2152: </strong></font><br>
2153:
2154: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2155: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2156: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2157: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2158: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2159: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2160: note of"</i>.
2161: <p>
2162:
1.247 jufi 2163: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2164: <a
1.247 jufi 2165: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2166: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2167: </strong></font><br>
2168:
2169: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2170: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2171: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2172: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2173: <p>
2174:
1.247 jufi 2175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2176: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2177: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2178: </strong></font><br>
2179:
2180: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2181: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2182: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2183: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2184: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2185: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2186: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2187: <p>
2188:
1.247 jufi 2189: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2190: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2191: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2192: 2000
2193: </strong></font><br>
2194:
2195: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2196: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2197: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2198: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2199: against current industry practices.
2200: <p>
2201:
1.247 jufi 2202: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2203: <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
2204: </strong></font><br>
2205:
2206: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2207: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2208: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2209: <p>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2212: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2213: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2214: </strong></font><br>
2215:
2216: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2217: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2218: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2219: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2220: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2221: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2222: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2223: <p>
2224:
1.247 jufi 2225: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2226: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2227: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2228: </strong></font><br>
2229:
2230: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2231: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2232: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2233: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2234: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2235: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2236: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2237: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2238: <p>
1.247 jufi 2239: </ul>
1.131 louis 2240:
1.118 louis 2241: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2242: <ul>
1.118 louis 2243:
1.247 jufi 2244: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2245: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2246: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2247: </strong></font><br>
2248:
2249: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2250: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2251: about time. The article mentions that
2252: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2253: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2254: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2255: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2256: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2257: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2258: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2259: <p>
2260:
1.247 jufi 2261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2262: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2263: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2264: </strong></font><br>
2265:
2266: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2267: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2268: of OpenSSH.
2269: <p>
2270:
1.247 jufi 2271: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2272: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2273: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2274: </strong></font><br>
2275:
2276: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2277: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2278: bridging.
2279: <p>
2280:
1.247 jufi 2281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2282: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2283: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2284: </strong></font><br>
2285:
1.121 deraadt 2286: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2287: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2288: <p>
2289:
1.247 jufi 2290: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2291: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2292: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2293: </strong></font><br>
2294:
2295: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2296: <p>
2297:
1.247 jufi 2298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2299: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2300: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2301: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2302: </strong></font><br>
2303:
1.120 deraadt 2304: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2305: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2306: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2307: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2308: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2309: <p>
2310:
1.247 jufi 2311: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2312: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2313: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2314: </strong></font><br>
2315:
1.222 miod 2316: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2317: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2318: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2319: protocols and their quirks.
2320: <p>
2321:
1.247 jufi 2322: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2323: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2324: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2325: </strong></font><br>
2326:
2327: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2328: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2329: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2330: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2331: <p>
2332:
1.247 jufi 2333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2334: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2335: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2336: </strong></font><br>
2337:
2338: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2339: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2340: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2341: <p>
2342:
1.247 jufi 2343: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2344: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2345: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2346: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2347: </strong></font><br>
2348:
2349: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2350: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2351: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2352: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2353: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2354: <p>
1.247 jufi 2355: </ul>
1.118 louis 2356:
1.104 louis 2357: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2358: <ul>
1.104 louis 2359:
1.247 jufi 2360: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2361: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2362: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2363: </strong></font><br>
2364:
2365: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2366: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2367: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2368: be a bit dry.
2369: <p>
2370:
1.247 jufi 2371: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2372: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2373: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2374: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2375: </strong></font><br>
2376: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2377: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2378: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2379: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2380: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2381: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2382: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2383: <p>
2384:
1.247 jufi 2385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2386: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2387: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2388: 2000
1.128 louis 2389: </strong></font><br>
2390:
2391: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2392: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2393: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2394: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2395: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2396: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2397: <p>
2398:
1.247 jufi 2399: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2400: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2401: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2402: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2403:
2404: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2405: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2406: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2407: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2408: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2409: <p>
1.110 louis 2410:
1.247 jufi 2411: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2412: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2413: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2414: </strong></font><br>
2415:
2416: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2417: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2418: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2419: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2420: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2421: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2422: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2423: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2424: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2425: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2426: <p>
2427:
1.247 jufi 2428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2429: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2430: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2431:
2432: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2433: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2434: <p>
1.108 louis 2435:
1.247 jufi 2436: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2437: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2438: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2439: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2440:
2441: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2442: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2443: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2444: <p>
1.106 louis 2445:
1.247 jufi 2446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2447: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2448: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2449: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2450:
2451: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2452: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2453: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2454: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2455: <p>
1.107 louis 2456:
1.247 jufi 2457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2458: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2459: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2460: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2461:
2462: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2463: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2464: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2465: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2466: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2467: <p>
1.105 louis 2468:
1.247 jufi 2469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2470: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2471: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2472: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2473:
1.113 naddy 2474: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2475: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2476: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2477: <p>
1.104 louis 2478:
1.247 jufi 2479: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2480: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2481: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2482: </strong></font><br>
2483:
2484: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2485: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2486: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2487: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2488: <p>
1.301 jose 2489:
2490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2491: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2492: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2493: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2494:
2495: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2496: hardware-supported cryptography.
2497: <p>
1.247 jufi 2498: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2499:
1.85 louis 2500: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2501: <ul>
1.85 louis 2502:
1.247 jufi 2503: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2504: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2505: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2506: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2507:
2508: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2509: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2510: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2511: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2512: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2513: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2514: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2515: <p>
1.99 louis 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2518: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2519: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2520: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2521:
2522: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2523: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2524: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2525: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2526: <p>
1.100 louis 2527:
1.247 jufi 2528: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2529: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2530: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2531: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2532:
2533: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2534: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2535: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2536: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2537: <p>
1.95 louis 2538:
1.247 jufi 2539: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2540: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2541: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2542: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2543:
2544: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2545: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2546: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2547: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2548: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2549: <p>
1.92 louis 2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2552: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2553: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2554: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2555:
2556: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2557: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2558: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2559: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2560: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2561: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2562: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2563: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2564: <p>
1.91 louis 2565:
1.247 jufi 2566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2567: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2568: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2569: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2570:
2571: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2572: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2573: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2574: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2575: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2576: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2577: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2578: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2579: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2580: <p>
1.90 louis 2581:
1.247 jufi 2582: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2583: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2584: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2585: </strong></font><br>
2586: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2587: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2588: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2589: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2590: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2591: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2592: <p>
2593:
1.247 jufi 2594: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2595: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2596: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2597: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2598:
1.113 naddy 2599: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2600: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2601: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2602: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2603: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2604: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2605: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2606: <p>
1.87 louis 2607:
1.247 jufi 2608: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2609: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2610: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2611: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2612:
2613: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2614: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2615: <p>
1.85 louis 2616:
1.247 jufi 2617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2618: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2619: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2620: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2621:
2622: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2623: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2624: <p>
2625:
2626: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2627: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2628: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2629: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2630:
2631: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2632: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2633: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2634: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2635: <p>
1.89 louis 2636:
1.247 jufi 2637: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2638: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2639: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2640: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2641:
2642: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2643: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2644: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2645: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2646: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2647: </ul>
1.85 louis 2648:
1.78 deraadt 2649: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2650: <ul>
1.74 louis 2651:
1.247 jufi 2652: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2653: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2654: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2655: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2656: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2657:
2658: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2659: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2660: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2661: <p>
1.83 louis 2662:
1.247 jufi 2663: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2664: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2665: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2666: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2667:
2668: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2669: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2670: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2671: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2672: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2673: <p>
1.93 louis 2674:
1.247 jufi 2675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2676: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2677: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2678: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2679: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2680:
1.83 louis 2681: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2682: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2683: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2684: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2685: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2686: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2687: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2688: <p>
1.82 aaron 2689:
1.247 jufi 2690: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2691: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2692: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2693: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2694:
1.83 louis 2695: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2696: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2697: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2698: <p>
1.80 louis 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2701: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2702: Bad Press</a>,
2703: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2704: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2705:
2706: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2707: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2708: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2709: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2710: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2711: <p>
1.247 jufi 2712: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2713:
2714: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2715: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2716:
1.247 jufi 2717: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2718: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2719: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2720: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2721: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2722:
2723: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2724: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2725: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2726: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2727: <p>
1.74 louis 2728:
1.247 jufi 2729: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2730: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2731: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2732: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2733:
1.219 horacio 2734: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2735: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2736: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2737: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2738: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2739: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2740: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2741: <p>
1.88 louis 2742:
1.247 jufi 2743: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2744: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2745: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2746: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2747:
2748: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2749: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2750: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2751: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2752: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2753: <p>
1.81 louis 2754:
1.247 jufi 2755: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2756: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2757: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2758: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2759:
2760: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2761: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2762: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2763: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2764: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2765: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2766: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2767: <p>
1.90 louis 2768:
1.247 jufi 2769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2770: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2771: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2772: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2773:
2774: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2775: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2776: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2777: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2778: <p>
1.247 jufi 2779: </ul>
1.71 louis 2780:
1.69 deraadt 2781: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2782: <ul>
1.70 louis 2783:
1.247 jufi 2784: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2785: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2786: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2787: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2788:
2789: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2790: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2791: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2792: <p>
1.70 louis 2793:
1.247 jufi 2794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2795: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2796: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2797: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2798:
2799: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2800: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2801: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2802: <p>
1.68 louis 2803:
1.247 jufi 2804: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2805: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2806: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2807: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2808: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2809:
1.111 jufi 2810: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2811: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2812: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2813: "secure by default" installation.
2814: <p>
1.64 louis 2815:
1.247 jufi 2816: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2817: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2818: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2819: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2820:
1.113 naddy 2821: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2822: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2823: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2824: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2825: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2826: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2827: <p>
1.66 louis 2828:
1.247 jufi 2829: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2830: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2831: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2832: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2833:
2834: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2835: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2836: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2837: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2838: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2839: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2840: <p>
1.83 louis 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2843: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2844: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2845: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2846:
2847: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2848: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2849: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2850: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2851: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2852: <p>
1.64 louis 2853:
1.247 jufi 2854: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2855: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2856: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2857: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2858:
2859: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2860: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2861: <p>
1.301 jose 2862:
2863: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2864: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2865: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2866: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2867: </strong></font><br>
2868:
2869: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2870: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2871: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2872: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2873: Giving way to
2874: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2875: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2876: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2877: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2878: <p>
1.247 jufi 2879: </ul>
1.65 louis 2880:
1.69 deraadt 2881: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2882: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2883:
1.247 jufi 2884: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2885: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2886: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2887: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2888:
2889: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2890: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2891: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2892: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2893: <p>
1.88 louis 2894:
1.247 jufi 2895: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2896: <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 2897: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2898:
2899: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2900: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2901: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2902: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2903: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2904: <p>
1.60 louis 2905:
1.247 jufi 2906: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2907: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2908: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2909: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2910: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2911:
2912: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2913: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2914: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2915: <p>
1.58 louis 2916:
1.247 jufi 2917: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2918: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2919: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2920:
2921: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2922: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2923: <p>
1.53 louis 2924:
1.247 jufi 2925: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2926: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2927: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2928: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2929:
2930: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2931: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2932: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2933: <p>
1.99 louis 2934:
1.247 jufi 2935: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2936: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2937: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2938:
2939: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2940: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2941: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2942: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2943: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2944:
1.247 jufi 2945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2946: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2947: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2948: </strong></font><br>
2949:
2950: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2951: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
2952: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
2953: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
2954: <p>
2955:
1.247 jufi 2956: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2957: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 2958: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2959: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2960:
2961: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
2962: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 2963: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 2964:
1.247 jufi 2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 2966: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 2967: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2968:
2969: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 2970: in
1.247 jufi 2971: <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 2972: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 2973: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 2974: <p>
1.53 louis 2975:
1.247 jufi 2976: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2977: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 2978: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
2979: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 2980: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 2981:
1.58 louis 2982: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2983: <p>
1.301 jose 2984:
2985: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2986: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
2987: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2988: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
2989: Informacyjny, January 2000
2990: </strong></font><br>
2991:
2992: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2993: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2994: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2995: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2996: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2997: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
2998: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2999: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3000: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3001: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3002: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3003: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3004: <p>
3005:
3006: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3007: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3008: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3009: </strong></font><br>
3010:
3011: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3012: <p>
3013: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3014:
1.69 deraadt 3015: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3016: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3017:
1.247 jufi 3018: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3019: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3020: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3021: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3022: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3023:
1.58 louis 3024: Kurt Seifried
3025: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3026: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3027: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3028: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3029:
1.247 jufi 3030: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3031: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3032: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3033: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3034:
3035: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3036: <p>
1.96 louis 3037:
1.247 jufi 3038: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3039: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3040: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3041: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3042: </strong></font><br>
3043:
3044: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3045: <p>
3046:
3047: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3048: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3049: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3050: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3051:
3052: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3053: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3054: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3055: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3056: <p>
1.247 jufi 3057: </ul>
1.86 louis 3058:
1.69 deraadt 3059: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3060: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3061:
1.247 jufi 3062: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3063: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3064: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3065: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3066:
3067: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3068: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3069: <p>
1.61 louis 3070:
1.247 jufi 3071: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3072: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3073: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3074: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3075: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3076:
3077: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3078: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3079: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3080: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3081: right -- or at least strives to".
3082: <p>
1.48 louis 3083:
1.247 jufi 3084: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3085: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3086: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3087: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3088: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3089: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3090: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3091: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3092: <p>
1.61 louis 3093:
1.247 jufi 3094: <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 3095: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3096: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3097:
3098: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3099: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3100: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3101: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3102: <p>
1.46 louis 3103:
1.247 jufi 3104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3105: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3106: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3107: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3108:
3109: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3110: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3111: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3112:
1.247 jufi 3113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3114: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3115: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3116: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3117:
3118: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3119: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3120: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3121: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3122: <p>
1.247 jufi 3123: </ul>
1.70 louis 3124:
1.69 deraadt 3125: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3126: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3127:
1.247 jufi 3128: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3129: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3130: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3131: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3132: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3133:
3134: Kurt Seifried
3135: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3136: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3137: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3138: <p>
1.44 philen 3139:
1.247 jufi 3140: <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 3141: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3142: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3143:
3144: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3145: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3146:
1.247 jufi 3147: <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 3148: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3149: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3150:
3151: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3152: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3153:
1.247 jufi 3154: <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 3155: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3156: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3157:
3158: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3159: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3160: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3161: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3162: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3163:
1.247 jufi 3164: <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 3165: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3166: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3167:
1.36 louis 3168: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3169: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3170:
1.247 jufi 3171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3172: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3173: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3174: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3175:
3176: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3177: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3178: </ul>
1.38 louis 3179:
1.69 deraadt 3180: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3181: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3182:
1.247 jufi 3183: <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 3184: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3185: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3186:
3187: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3188: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3189: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3190:
1.113 naddy 3191: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3192: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3193: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3194: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3195:
3196: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3197: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3198: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3199: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3200: <blockquote>
3201: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3202: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3203: <br>
3204: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3205: </code>
3206: </blockquote>
3207: <p>
3208:
1.247 jufi 3209: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3210: <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 3211: <p>
3212:
3213: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3214: <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 3215: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3216:
3217: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3218: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3219: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3220: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3221:
1.247 jufi 3222: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3223: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3224: Sept. 28, 1999
3225: </strong></font><br>
3226:
3227: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3228: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3229: translating and reprinting articles from
3230: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3231: <p>
3232:
3233: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3234: <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 3235: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3236:
3237: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3238: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3239: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3240: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3241: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3242: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3243: <p>
1.19 louis 3244:
1.113 naddy 3245: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3246: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3247: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3248:
3249: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3250: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3251: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3252: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3253: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3254: <p>
1.16 louis 3255:
1.247 jufi 3256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3257: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3258: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3259: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3260:
1.57 louis 3261: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3262: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3263: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3264: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3265:
1.247 jufi 3266: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3267: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3268: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3269: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3270:
1.113 naddy 3271: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3272:
1.247 jufi 3273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3274: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3275: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3276: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3277:
1.23 louis 3278: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3279: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3280: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3281: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3282: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3283: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3284:
1.247 jufi 3285: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3286: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3287: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3288: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3289:
1.199 pvalchev 3290: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3291: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3292: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3293: installation.
1.113 naddy 3294: <p>
1.47 louis 3295:
1.247 jufi 3296: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3297: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3298: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3299: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3300:
1.301 jose 3301: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3302: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3303: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3304: </ul>
1.57 louis 3305:
1.69 deraadt 3306: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3307: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3308:
1.247 jufi 3309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3310: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3311: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3312: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3313:
3314: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3315: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3316: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3317: <p>
1.12 louis 3318:
1.247 jufi 3319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3320: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3321: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3322: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3323:
3324: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3325: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3326: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3327: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3328: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3329: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3330: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3331: <p>
1.247 jufi 3332: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3333:
1.69 deraadt 3334: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3335: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3336:
1.247 jufi 3337: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3338: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3339: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3340:
3341: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3342: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3343: available."
1.113 naddy 3344: <p>
1.301 jose 3345:
3346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3347: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3348: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3349: </strong></font><br>
3350:
3351: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3352: <p>
1.247 jufi 3353: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3354:
1.69 deraadt 3355: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3356: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3357:
1.247 jufi 3358: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3359: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3360: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3361:
3362: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3363: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3364: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3365: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3366: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3367: <p>
1.33 louis 3368:
1.247 jufi 3369: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3370: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3371: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3372: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3373:
1.113 naddy 3374: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3375: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3376: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3377: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3378: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3379: <p>
1.247 jufi 3380: </ul>
1.57 louis 3381:
1.69 deraadt 3382: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3383: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3386: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3387: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3388: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3389:
3390: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3391: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3392: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3393:
1.247 jufi 3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3395: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3396: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3397: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3398: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3399:
3400: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3401: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3402:
1.247 jufi 3403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3404: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3405:
1.113 naddy 3406: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3407:
1.247 jufi 3408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3409: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3410: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3411: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3412:
3413: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3414: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3415: </ul>
1.23 louis 3416:
1.69 deraadt 3417: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3418: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3419:
1.247 jufi 3420: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3421: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3422: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3423:
3424: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3425: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3426: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3427:
1.247 jufi 3428: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3429: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3430: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3431: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3432:
3433: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3434: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3435: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3436: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3437: </ul>
1.57 louis 3438:
1.69 deraadt 3439: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3440: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3443: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3444: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3445: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3446:
3447: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3448: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3449: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3450: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3451: <p>
1.15 louis 3452:
1.247 jufi 3453: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3454: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3455: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3456: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3457:
3458: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3459: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3460: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3461: columns."
1.113 naddy 3462: <p>
1.247 jufi 3463: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3464:
1.69 deraadt 3465: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3466: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3469: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3470: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3471: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3472:
3473: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3474: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3475:
1.113 naddy 3476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3477: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3478: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3479:
3480: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3481: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3482: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3483: </ul>
1.57 louis 3484:
1.69 deraadt 3485: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3486: <ul>
1.301 jose 3487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3488: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3489: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3490: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3491:
3492: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3493: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3494: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3495: <p>
3496:
3497: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3498: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3499: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3500: Nov 13, 1998 and
3501: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3502: Datateknik</a>,
3503: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3504:
3505: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3506: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3507: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3508: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3509: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3510:
1.113 naddy 3511: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3512: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3513: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3514: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3515:
1.222 miod 3516: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3517: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3518: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3519: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3520: <p>
1.247 jufi 3521: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3522:
1.69 deraadt 3523: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3524: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3525:
1.247 jufi 3526: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3527: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3528: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3529:
1.69 deraadt 3530: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3531: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3532: <p>
1.247 jufi 3533: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3534:
1.69 deraadt 3535: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3536: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3537:
1.247 jufi 3538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3539: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3540: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3541: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3542:
3543: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3544: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3545: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3546:
1.247 jufi 3547: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3548: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3549: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3550: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3551: <p>
1.247 jufi 3552: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3553:
1.69 deraadt 3554: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3555: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3556:
1.247 jufi 3557: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3558: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3559: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3560: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3561: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3562: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3563:
3564: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3565: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3566: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3567: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3568: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3569: <p>
1.247 jufi 3570: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3571:
3572: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3573: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3574:
1.247 jufi 3575: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3576: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3577: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3578:
1.69 deraadt 3579: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3580: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3581: <p>
1.112 naddy 3582:
1.247 jufi 3583: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3584: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3585:
1.292 camield 3586: <hr>
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