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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>
1.349 ! deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=dd4eb943-192f-4e5a-8d7f-e2a93a4e7b43">
! 24: Elite Programmers `Hack' to Help Others</a>,
! 25: Pages A1/D1/D4, Calgary Herald,
1.346 ian 26: May 17, 2003.
27: </strong></font><br>
28: Tamara Gignac came out to the hackathon and spent much of the day
29: talking to team members; her article takes up half the front page of
30: the business section and half of another page inside
31: (plus a four-column-inch teaser on the front page).
32: "We're addicted to making good stuff that works", she quotes Theo,
33: in talking about the project's history and goals.
34: Goes over the whole gamut of meanings of the term "hacker" -
35: including early MIT hackerdom and quotes from Tim Berners-Lee -
36: and how the term went downhill in the public's mind after the
37: <i>War Games</i> movie. Photos of dhartmei, jason and others.
38: The article is not yet on the net.
1.347 deraadt 39: <p>
1.346 ian 40:
41: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.345 deraadt 42: Funding cut linked to antiwar remarks, Page E5,
1.348 ian 43: Calgary Herald,
1.345 deraadt 44: May 7, 2003.
45: </strong></font><br>
46: An article not yet on the net by Tamara Gignac once again discusses
47: the DARPA funding cut and how it will have no affect on the Hackathon
48: happening in Calgary starting the 9th.
49: <p>
50:
51: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.344 deraadt 52: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/21438.html">
53: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
54: OsOpinion,
55: May 6, 2003.
56: </strong></font><br>
57: Joe Brockmeier writes a scathing discussion regarding the perception of
58: wrongdoing inside DARPA and Air Force in regards to the funding cut.
59: <br>
60: This article can also be found online at:
61: <ul>
62: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
63: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21438.html">
64: Shame on DARPA for Pulling OpenBSD Funding</a>,
65: NewsFactor Network.
66: </strong></font>
67: </ul>
68: <p>
69:
70: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.343 deraadt 71: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=52131">
72: OpenBSD, closed doors</a>,
73: ITBusiness,
74: May 2, 2003.
75: </strong></font><br>
76: Shane Schick covers a quick recount of the DARPA funding situation, the
77: release of 3.3 and its buffer-overflow fighting security features.
78: Despite some errors, the article interestingly ends with a suggestion
79: that the Canadian government should help fund OpenBSD.
80: <p>
81:
82: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.341 deraadt 83: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/01/HNopenbsd33_1.html">
84: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
85: InfoWorld,
86: May 1, 2003.
1.338 ian 87: </strong></font><br>
1.342 deraadt 88: Carly Suppa discusses the new things that can be found in OpenBSD 3.3.
89: <br>
90: This article can also be found online at:
91: <ul>
92: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
93: <a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/15D00CA80554E2B648256D1A000F9270?OpenDocument">
94: OpenBSD launches latest release</a>,
95: IDG Singapore.
96: </strong></font>
97: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 98: <p>
99:
1.339 jose 100: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
101: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999200.html">
102: OpenBSD 3.3 prevails despite funding cut</a>,
1.341 deraadt 103: ZDNet,
104: May 1, 2003.
105: </strong></font><br>
106: An article with a number of errors, apparently cobbled together by
1.342 deraadt 107: someone using parts from previous articles.
108: <br>
1.341 deraadt 109: This article can also be found online at:
110: <ul>
111: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
112: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/999200.htm">
113: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
114: BusinessWeek.com.
1.339 jose 115: </strong></font>
116: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
117: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-999200.html">
118: Developers give OpenBSD to public</a>,
119: CNET News.com.
120: </strong></font>
121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
122: <a href="http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2134164,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage">
123: OpenBSD releases version 3.3</a>,
124: ZDNet UK.
125: </strong></font>
126: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
127: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=480">
128: OpenBSD 3.3 has been released</a>,
129: Help Net Security, Croatia.
130: </strong></font>
131: </ul>
1.341 deraadt 132: <p>
1.339 jose 133:
1.341 deraadt 134: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
135: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-announce&m=105175475006905&w=2">
136: OpenBSD 3.3 Released</a>,
137: Todd Miller in <a href="mail.html">openbsd-announce</a>,
138: May 1, 2003.
139: </strong></font><br>
140: The official announcement of the 3.3 release lists all the great things
141: that have been added
142: to the system in 3.3, including ProPolice, W^X, fewer setuid/setgid programs,
143: more privsep, major security and usability improvements in pf,
144: more hardware support including the HPPA platform, spamd, more and better
145: third-party "ports", spamd, many upgrades to included software, and more.
146: Recommends purchase of CD and T-shirts to provide continuing funding
147: for the project (more so now that the DARPA funding is gone).
148: As always, OpenBSD remains free software, so you can FTP it for free.
1.338 ian 149: <p>
150:
151: </ul>
152:
1.253 ian 153: <h2>April, 2003</h2>
154: <ul>
1.255 ian 155:
1.260 ian 156: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.331 deraadt 157: <a href="http://www.techrepublic.com/article.jhtml?id=r00220030428mco01.htm&page=1&vf=tt">
1.330 deraadt 158: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
159: TechRepublic,
160: April 28, 2003.
161: </strong></font><br>
162: John McCormick writes about the recent W^X and ProPolice efforts in the
163: upcoming 3.3 release, noting that other vendors should look at this
1.331 deraadt 164: work.<br>
165: Can also be found online at:
166: <ul>
167: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
168: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133935,00.html">
169: Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?</a>,
170: ZDNet UK.
171: </strong></font>
172: </ul>
1.330 deraadt 173: <p>
174:
175: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.326 deraadt 176: <a href="http://www.idg.net/ic_1309735_9677_1-5043.html">
177: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events'</a>,
178: IDG,
179: April 24, 2003.
180: </strong></font><br>
181: Grant Gross provides another summary of new information regarding
182: the DARPA grant situation. Like other reporters, he runs into a
183: wall, as DARPA refuses to "go into any more detail."<br>
184: Can also be found online at:
185: <ul>
186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
187: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/24/HNdarpaopen_1.html">
188: OpenBSD contract suspended due to 'world events</a>,
1.340 jose 189: InfoWorld.
1.326 deraadt 190: </strong></font>
191: </ul>
192: <p>
193:
194: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
195: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081943/">
1.327 david 196: The Fix Is In: Programmers can stop Internet worms. Will they?</a>,
1.326 deraadt 197: Slate,
198: April 24, 2003.
199: </strong></font><br>
200: Paul Boutin asks whether the buffer overflow prevention techniques
201: found in OpenBSD 3.3 will, in time, find themselves into commercial
202: operating systems like Windows, where they could have stopped major
203: buffer-overflow based problems like Slammer, Code Red, and Nimda.
204: <p>
205:
206: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.325 ian 207: <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/29186/">OpenBSD Funding</a>,
208: LWN.net Weekly Edition,
209: April 24, 2003.
210: </strong></font><br>
211: ($ registration required; free after May 1, 2003).
212: <br/>More detailed discussion of why the funding was cut, by whom
213: and when. Concludes that the funding cut "may not be as dramatic
214: as it sounds", since OpenBSD has other sources of funding.
215: <p>
216:
217: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.324 ian 218: [ITALIAN] <a href="http://webnews.html.it/focus/290.htm">La DARPA ritira i fondi per OpenBSD</a>, WebNews online,
219: April 24, 2003.
220: </strong></font><br>
221: Notes that DARPA's funding cut is "a gesture that has echoed throughout
222: the free software community".
223: Refers to the AP article below, and has lots of links to
224: other articles.
225: <p>
226:
227: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
228: <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>,
229: New York Times, April 24, 2003.
230: </strong></font><br>
231: Another take on the ongoing saga, with some interesting remarks:
232: Reporter Jennifer Lee comments that the controversy
233: "highlights the delicate balance between the military and the
234: anti-establishment bent of some in the technology community. It
235: also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and
236: hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely
237: sympathetic to the American military's current role in world
238: affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position
239: and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.
240: <br/>
241: Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...
242: the 35-year-old founder of an international collaborative software project
243: known as OpenBSD", and quotes him as saying that the hackathon will go on:
244: "We are free people, we are hobbyists," he said. "We do this for fun."
1.328 deraadt 245: <br>
246: Can also be found online at:
247: <ul>
248: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
249: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0424-08.htm">
250: Canadian Programmer Says U.S. Cut Funding After Comments</a>,
251: Common Dreams NewsCenter
252: </strong></font>
253: </ul>
1.324 ian 254: <p>
255:
256: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
257: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58602,00.html">Organizer: 'Hackathon' Will Go On</a>,
258: Wired, April 24, 2003.
259: </strong></font><br>
260: Another retelling of the tale, similar in scope to the NYTimes.com
261: article above.
262: Quotes Theo as saying: "The hackathon will go on," de Raadt said.
263: "There's no way I'll be taking 60 people's personal flights and
264: wasting them."
1.332 ian 265: <br>
266: Can also be found online at:
267: <ul>
268: <li>
269: <font color="#009000"><strong>[JAPANESE] <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/20030425302.html">Wired News Japan</a>
270: </strong></font>
271: </ul>
1.324 ian 272: <p>
273:
274: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.322 cloder 275: <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/04/23/0256240.shtml">Open Source Enables Terrorist States</a>, Slashdot, April 23, 2003.
276: </strong></font><br>
277: Coverage and commentary on DARPA's cancellation and its implications for open source software.
278: <p>
279:
280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.321 pvalchev 281: <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.
282: </strong></font><br>
283: An article from the University of Pennsylvania commenting
284: on the DARPA cut and the university involvement in it.
285: <p>
286:
287: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.319 henning 288: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-23.04.03-000/">OpenBSD in Ungnade</a>, Heise online,
289: April 23, 2003.
290: </strong></font><br>
291: OpenBSD in disgrace - UPenn's actions against the hackathon.
292: <p>
293:
294: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.316 ian 295: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.webwereld.nl/nieuws/14830.phtml">Defensie VS stopt subsidie OpenBSD</a>, WebWereld NL,
1.315 deraadt 296: April 22, 2003.
297: </strong></font><br>
298: This article works from information found in the CNET article.
299: <p>
300:
301: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.297 deraadt 302: <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
303: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
304: Sydney Morning Herald, April 21, 2003.
1.308 jose 305: </strong></font><br>
1.297 deraadt 306: Yet another article on the DARPA moves, this time from down under.
307: Days before the grant was recalled, Jonathan M. Smith told de Raadt
308: that "perceptions of wrong doing" were very important to UPENN. When
309: papers around the world start making assertions of wrong doing on
310: UPENN and DARPA's part, how is that for perception?<br>
311: Can also be found online at:
312: <ul>
313: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
314: <a href="http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/04/21/1050777197498.html">
1.307 deraadt 315: OpenBSD loses funding due to anti-war statements</a>,
316: The Age.
1.297 deraadt 317: </strong></font>
1.311 deraadt 318: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
319: [INDONESIAN] <a href="http://www.detikinet.com/net/2003/04/21/20030421-105803.shtml">
1.312 deraadt 320: OpenBSD Terhambat Anti-Perang</a>,
321: detiki-Net, Indonesia.
1.311 deraadt 322: </strong></font>
1.297 deraadt 323: </ul>
324: <p>
325:
326: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.318 deraadt 327: [TURKISH] <a href="http://www.olympos.org/article/articleview/1047/1/1">
328: DARPA OpenBSD'ye Destegini Geri Çekiyor...</a>,
1.306 deraadt 329: Olympos Security, April 20, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 330: </strong></font><br>
331: The leading Turkish IT Security Portal reporting about the DARPA fund
1.306 deraadt 332: cut. Talks about the DARPA CHATS funding to POSSE program and the
333: benefits to the open source community. Quotes from de Raadt's anti-war
334: views from the interview and his plans for holding the approaching
335: hackathon even without funding. Also covers the OpenBSD project's many
336: contributions to the field of operating system security and proactive
337: auditing.
1.299 deraadt 338: <p>
339:
340: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.291 deraadt 341: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030419/RMILI/TPScience/">
342: Researcher feels anti-war views cost him U.S. funding</a>,
1.308 jose 343: Globe & Mail, April 18, 2003.
344: </strong></font><br>
1.291 deraadt 345: David Akin writes a second article about the DARPA situation. His original
346: article, found further down, was the one which reputedly angered officials
347: at UPenn and DARPA.
348: <p>
349:
350: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.315 deraadt 351: [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
352: April 18, 2003.
353: </strong></font><br>
1.317 ian 354: A small article in the french press.
1.315 deraadt 355: <p>
356:
357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.299 deraadt 358: [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 359: April 18, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 360: </strong></font><br>
361: DARPA cancels OS project funding after comments
362: <p>
363:
364: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.283 jsyn 365: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/18/darpa.html">
366: Soldiers Renege on Hackers</a>,
367: OnLamp.com, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 368: </strong></font><br>
1.283 jsyn 369: Ian Darwin has written an editorial piece which ties together the history
370: of DARPA, Canadian-US relations, and the events immediately surrounding
371: the ending of the grant for the POSSE project.
372: <p>
373:
374: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.267 deraadt 375: <a href="http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1050693906.html">
376: DARPA pulls OpenBSD funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 377: Ars Technica Newsdesk, April 18, 2003.
1.267 deraadt 378: </strong></font><br>
379: Semi On reports on the sudden pulling of OpenBSD's DARPA grant
380: funding. This article laments about the possibility that researchers
381: must be "good party men" in order to receive funding in the new
1.290 jose 382: American century.
1.267 deraadt 383: <p>
384:
385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.264 deraadt 386: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">
387: DARPA pulls funding for OpenBSD, leader says</a>,
1.269 deraadt 388: IDG News Service, April 18, 2003.
1.264 deraadt 389: </strong></font><br>
1.267 deraadt 390: Grant Gross writes about the sudden cancellation of the OpenBSD
391: project funding by DARPA. This article includes some background as
392: well as the response he received to his phone inquiries about the
393: reasons for the abrupt cancellation.
394: Can also be found online at:
395: <ul>
396: <li><a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0418darpapulls.html">Network Fusion</a>
397: <li><a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/04/18/HNdarpa_1.html">Info World</a>
1.281 dhartmei 398: <li><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,80473,00.html">Computerworld</a>
1.304 deraadt 399: <li><a href="http://www.idg.com.sg/idgwww.nsf/unidlookup/4EB7D1016D5B4E7548256D0F0019F8A5?OpenDocument">IDG Singapore</a>
1.267 deraadt 400: </ul>
1.264 deraadt 401: <p>
402:
403: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 404: <A HREF="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.262 beck 405: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 406: (title changed to "Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding" later)
1.269 deraadt 407: Associated Press, April 18, 2003.
1.262 beck 408: </strong></font><br>
409: Matthew Fordahl of the Associated press reports about the
1.273 deraadt 410: DARPA funding cancellation. There have been a series of edits of this
411: story, with the title under constant flux. This story has been picked
412: up by many local newspapers who carry Associated Press stories including:
413: <ul>
1.283 jsyn 414:
415: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
416: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Grant-Canceled.html">
417: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
418: New York Times.
419: </strong></font>(free registration required)
420:
1.273 deraadt 421: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
422: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1015.html">
1.276 deraadt 423: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>,
1.273 deraadt 424: ABC News.
425: </strong></font>
426:
427: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 428: <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/aptech_story.asp?category=1700&slug=Grant%20Canceled">
1.273 deraadt 429: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.287 jsyn 430: Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA.
1.273 deraadt 431: </strong></font>
432:
433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 434: <a href="http://www.theledger.com/app:s/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 435: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.287 jsyn 436: Lakeland Ledger, FL.
1.273 deraadt 437: </strong></font>
438:
439: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.278 deraadt 440: <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2003/04/18/darpa/index.html">
441: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war comments</a>,
1.284 jsyn 442: Salon.
1.278 deraadt 443: </strong></font>
444:
445: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 446: <a href="http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR">
1.276 deraadt 447: DARPA Cancels OS Project After Comments</a>
1.273 deraadt 448: Times Daily, AL.
449: </strong></font>
450:
451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
452: <a href="http://boston.com/dailynews/108/economy/Military_drops_project_s_fundi:.shtml">
453: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>
454: Boston.com, MA.
455: </strong></font>
456:
457: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 458: <a href="http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180815&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.276 deraadt 459: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>
1.273 deraadt 460: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL.
461: </strong></font>
462:
463: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.274 deraadt 464: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42743-03.txt">
465: [Article was pulled]</a>
466: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.273 deraadt 467: </strong></font>
468:
469: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
470: <a href="http://www.infoshop.org/inews/stories.php?story=03/04/18/9696550">
471: DARPA cancels open-source software project after anti-war ...</a>,
472: Infoshop News.
473: </strong></font>
474:
475: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
476: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/5666795.htm">
477: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
478: San Jose Mercury News, CA.
479: </strong></font>
480:
481: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.305 deraadt 482: <a href="http://newsobserver.com/24hour/technology/story/859765p-6012789c.html">
483: Military cancels OS project after programmer's comments</a>,
484: Raleigh News, NC.
485: </strong></font>
486:
487: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.314 deraadt 488: <a href="http://www.napanews.com/templates/index.cfm?template=story_full&id=22677BFE-1AD7-4969-B4B6-C33A2D214DAE">
489: Military cancels project's funding after programmer's anti-war comments</a>,
490: Napa News, CA.
491: </strong></font>
492:
493: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 494: <a href="http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7759788&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept_id=465812&rfi=6">
1.273 deraadt 495: Military drops project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
496: NEPA News, PA.
497: </strong></font>
498:
499: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
500: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,58553,00.html">
501: Peace Talk Halts Defence OS Job</a>,
502: Wired News.
503: </strong></font>
1.332 ian 504: <br>
505: <li>
1.333 deraadt 506: <font color="#009000"><strong>
507: [JAPANESE]
508: <a href="http://www.hotwired.co.jp/news/news/culture/story/20030423205.html">
509: Wired News Japan</a>
510: </strong></font>
1.273 deraadt 511:
1.271 deraadt 512: </ul>
513: <p>
1.272 deraadt 514: Then on some news sites, the story starts to change. A spokeswoman
515: from DARPA is quoted as saying "We're sorry if this review process has
1.274 deraadt 516: been misinterpreted as an effort to cancel the work." (If it was not
517: a cancellation, then why did Mark West from UPENN phone the Hyatt
518: Calgary and cancel the reservations -- even before OpenBSD was
519: informed by Jonathan Smith, who in email said "Penn has been contacted
520: by the Air Force and NO FURTHER COSTS MAY BE INCURRED, effective
521: today, 4/17/03", "All subcontracts are terminated, effective TODAY",
1.308 jose 522: and "Penn must cancel/terminate contracts & obligations such as the
1.274 deraadt 523: Hyatt and travel not yet PAID. Mark, please carry this out ASAP per
524: our contractual requirements with the government" These papers proceed
525: to pick up the new story; some retain the old one:
1.271 deraadt 526: <p>
527: <ul>
1.273 deraadt 528:
529: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 530: <a href="http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GRANT_CANCELED?SITE=ININS&SECTION=BUSINESS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">
1.285 jsyn 531: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
532: Indianapolis Star, IN.
533: </strong></font>
534:
535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.273 deraadt 536: <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/5666795.htm">
537: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
538: Miami Herald, FL.
539: </strong></font>
540:
541: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.282 dhartmei 542: <a href="http://www.portervillerecorder.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42749-03.txt">Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding</a>,
1.275 deraadt 543: The Porterville Recorder, CA.
544: </strong></font>
545:
546: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
547: <a href="http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/5666795.htm">
1.273 deraadt 548: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
1.275 deraadt 549: Wichita Eagle, KS.
1.273 deraadt 550: </strong></font>
1.275 deraadt 551:
552: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
553: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Business/ap20030418_1329.html">
554: Programmer Claims Agency Dropped Funding<br>
555: Programmer of Secure, Free Operating System Claims U.S. Research Agency Cut Off Grant Money</a>,
556: ABC News.
557: </strong></font>
558:
1.276 deraadt 559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
560: <a href="http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2003/04/18/ap/HiTech/apnews42748-03.txt">
1.309 jose 561: [Article was pulled]</a>,
1.284 jsyn 562: Rapid City Journal, SD.
1.276 deraadt 563: </strong></font>
564:
1.286 dhartmei 565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 566: <a href="http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20030418&Category=APF&ArtNo=304180871&Ref=AR&cachetime=5">
1.286 dhartmei 567: Agency denies dropping project's funding after anti-war comments</a>,
568: Wilmington Star, NC.
569: </strong></font>
570:
1.300 jose 571: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
572: <a href="http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/business/5670981.htm">
573: Project wasn't dropped over anti-war stance, agency says</a>,
574: The Contra Costa Times, Northern California.
575: </strong></font>
576:
1.309 jose 577: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
578: <a href="http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030421.gtprog0421/GTStory">
579: Programmer says criticism of military cost him contract</a>,
580: Globe Technology.
581: </strong></font>
582:
1.263 deraadt 583: </ul>
1.262 beck 584: <p>
585:
586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.263 deraadt 587: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/30332.html">
588: Getting realistic in the war on hackers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 589: TheRegister/SecurityFocus, April 18, 2003.
1.263 deraadt 590: </strong></font><br>
1.264 deraadt 591: John Lasser talks about the damage that US DMCA and similar acts are doing
1.261 ian 592: to civil liberties; recommends security technology as a better option.
593: Some coverage of security features in OpenBSD 3.3 and elsewhere.
594: <p>
595:
596: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.289 jose 597: <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9030">
598: OpenBSD loses DARPA money for hackathon</a>,
599: The Inquirer, April 18, 2003.
1.308 jose 600: </strong></font><br>
1.289 jose 601: A critical story about how Theo's criticisms of the US-led war in Iraq
602: with respect to the source of funding is what caused the DARPA funding
603: to be canceled. The timing of the grant's revocation is unfortunate for
604: the upcoming OpenBSD hackathon, which was to be partly funded by the
605: grant. This story was written without information from OpenBSD or DARPA
606: and simply restates other press reports.
607: <p>
608:
609: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.277 deraadt 610: <a href="http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3307">
611: DARPA Pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
612: OS News, April 18, 2003.
613: </strong></font><br>
614: OS News has a discussion forum on this issue.
615: <p>
616:
617: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.261 ian 618: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30333.html">
619: US military shuns BSD for hopping landmines</a>,
1.269 deraadt 620: The Register, April 18, 2003.
1.261 ian 621: </strong></font><br>
622: Another report on the DARPA funding.
623: But hopping landmines? You have to see that one to believe it.
624: Your (US) Tax Dollars At Work.
625: <p>
626:
627: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.330 deraadt 628: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2133221,00.html">
629: IT Anthems: OpenBSD</a>,
630: ZDNet UK Tech Update,
631: April 17, 2003.
632: </strong></font><br>
633: Peter Judge, who maintains the large
634: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t481-s2122414,00.html">
635: Tech Anthems</a>
636: archives, does a little writeup about the OpenBSD release songs,
637: 4 so far.
638: <p>
639:
640: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.260 ian 641: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1016-997393.html?tag=fd_top">
642: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding</a>,
1.269 deraadt 643: news.com.com, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 644: </strong></font><br>
645: "The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research
646: Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating
647: system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons."
648: Refers to Theo's email announcing the cut.
649: Talks about the money going to "foreign" researchers.
650: Goes on to say:
651: "Moreover, de Raadt believed that the U.S. government took exception
652: to comments he made indicating that the money spent on his project
653: meant that fewer cruise missiles were being built...
654: "In the U.S., today, free speech is just a myth," de Raadt said."
1.279 deraadt 655: This article is also found online at:
656: <ul>
1.298 deraadt 657: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
658: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/cnet/stories/997393.htm">
659: BusinessWeek.com</a>,
660: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 661: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 662: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
663: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-997393.html">
664: ZDnet</a>,
665: DARPA pulls OpenBSD Funding.
1.308 jose 666: </strong></font><br>
1.298 deraadt 667: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
668: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000024997,20273830,00.htm">
669: ZDnet Australia</a>,
670: US Defence pulls open source funding.
1.308 jose 671: </strong></font><br>
1.279 deraadt 672: </ul>
1.260 ian 673: <p>
1.279 deraadt 674:
1.260 ian 675: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 676: <a href="http://bsd.slashdot.org/bsd/03/04/17/2332233.shtml?tid=122&tid=98&tid=172">
1.260 ian 677: DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn</a>,
1.322 cloder 678: Slashdot, April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 679: </strong></font><br>
1.322 cloder 680: Slashdot report (and user followups) on the funding cancellation.
1.260 ian 681: Links to Theo's original email (see below) announcing that DARPA cut the
682: project's funding (which was coming through the University of Pennsylvania)
683: without notice or justification.
684: <p>
685:
686: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 687: <a href="http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105061580500738&w=2">
1.260 ian 688: DARPA Cancellation</a>,
1.290 jose 689: MARC (Mailing list Archives), April 17, 2003.
1.260 ian 690: </strong></font><br>
691: Theo's original mail announcing DARPA's arbitrary cancellation of its funding:
692: "It has come to my attention that DARPA has cancelled the POSSE program
1.308 jose 693: with UPENN, (sub OpenBSD & a bit for OpenSSL) for undisclosed reasons,
1.260 ian 694: effective today, without any warning..."
695: <p>
1.257 ian 696:
697: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.258 deraadt 698: <a href="http://www.robtv.com">
699: TV appearance</a>,
1.269 deraadt 700: CTV Report on Business, April 16, 2003.
1.258 deraadt 701: </strong></font><br>
1.259 deraadt 702: On this day, Theo appeared on this TV channel for a 5 minute interview
703: at 1:15pm Mountain Time. The interviewer focused on the question of
704: why a group of individuals would write a free operating system designed
705: for security. (He had difficulty believing that people who do things for
706: fun can generate quality; perhaps he has never heard the term "craftsman").
1.258 deraadt 707: <p>
708:
709: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.257 ian 710: <a href="http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/vol5_15.php">
711: OpenBSD Release Protected Against Buffer Overflow Attacks</a>,
1.269 deraadt 712: SANS Newsbytes, April 16, 2003.
1.257 ian 713: </strong></font><br>
714: A description of the work done in 3.3 to prevent buffer overflow attacks.
715: The editors speak strongly in favor of the team's efforts
716: in producing reliable, bug-free software;
717: quoting two of them:
718: <br/>(Ranum): It's GREAT to see that at least a few people are smart enough
719: to try to attack problems like this systemically, rather than keeping
720: stuck in the fruitless "penetrate and patch" while loop. This is how
721: to make progress in security: fundamental protections.
722: <br/>(Shpantzer): Initiatives like this should be taught as case studies
723: in computer science courses at the undergraduate level.
724: <p>
725:
1.255 ian 726: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.308 jose 727: [DUTCH] <a href="http://www.automatiseringsgids.nl/news/default.asp?nwsId=21776">
728: Project OpenBSD strijdt tegen bufferoverflows</a>,
1.310 deraadt 729: Automatiserings Gids Webeditie, April 14, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 730: </strong></font><br>
1.310 deraadt 731: A description of three new techniques in OpenBSD to counter buffer overflows.
1.299 deraadt 732: <p>
733:
734: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.323 henning 735: [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 736: April 13, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 737: </strong></font><br>
738: New security concepts in OpenBSD
739: <p>
740:
741: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.254 drahn 742: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1002-996584.html">
743: Open-source team fights buffer overflows</a>,
1.269 deraadt 744: CNET News.com, April 11, 2003.
1.254 drahn 745: </strong></font><br>
1.260 ian 746: "The OpenBSD project hopes a new change to its latest release will
1.254 drahn 747: eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing
748: security experts for more than three decades."
749: Coverage of Theo's presentation at CanSecWest.
750: <p>
1.261 ian 751:
1.254 drahn 752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.320 henning 753: [GERMAN] <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-08.04.03-001/">US-Verteidigungsministerium unterstützt OpenBSD</a>,
1.313 deraadt 754: Heise News-Ticker, April 8, 2003.
1.299 deraadt 755: </strong></font><br>
756: OpenBSD's DARPA grant
757: <p>
758:
759: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.313 deraadt 760: <a href="http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21212.html">
761: NEWSFACTOR SPECIAL REPORT: Inside the World of Secure Operating Systems</a>
762: NewsFactor, April 8, 2003.
763: </strong></font><br>
764: Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier reports on what a secure operating system is made
765: of; splitting things up between trusted and hardened systems, and finally
766: discussion OpenBSD's path.
767: <p>
768:
769: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.253 ian 770: <a href="http://www.globeandmail.ca/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030406.whack46/BNStory/Technology/?query=openbsd">
771: U.S. military helps fund Calgary hacker</a>,
1.269 deraadt 772: The Globe And Mail, April 6, 2003.
1.253 ian 773: </strong></font><br>
774: OpenBSD continues to get attention in Canada for drawing funding
775: from US DARPA.
776: Theo is quoted as pointing out that, although DARPA is funding it,
777: they're not telling the project what to do; just funding the
778: continuation of the project's good work, all released under
779: the BSD license.
780: <p>
781: </ul>
782:
1.251 ian 783: <h2>March, 2003</h2>
784: <ul>
785:
786: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 787: <a href="http://www.libroscope.org/article.php3?id_article=69">
788: [French] OpenBSD ne désarme pas</a>,
789: Libroscope interview, March 19, 2003
790: </strong></font><br>
791:
792: The on-line ``libre people projet'' <a
793: href="http://www.libroscope.org">Libroscope</a> team interviewed OpenBSD
794: developers Marc Espie and Miod Vallat about the OpenBSD project and the
795: OpenBSD ``way of life''.
796: <p>
797:
798: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.251 ian 799: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/03/13/darpabsd.html">
800: Hackers Meet Soldiers</a>,
1.269 deraadt 801: ONLamp.com, March 13, 2003.
1.251 ian 802: </strong></font><br>
803: The authors discuss OpenBSD's security background and why the
804: US Military under DARPA is funding development of OpenBSD.
805: Mentions
806: <a href="http://www.darpa.mil/ato/programs/chats.htm">CHATS</a>
807: and
808: <a href="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/POSSE/">POSSE</a>
809: programs.
810: Quotes Theo as explaining that "no development serves only
1.290 jose 811: government purposes": "Nearly everything that is being developed
1.251 ian 812: is going into the OpenBSD source tree..."
813: Summarizes recent developments that are in -current and will be in 3.3.
814: <p>
1.325 ian 815: Note: some material related to POSSE is mirrored
816: <a href="http://www.darwinsys.com/posse-mirror/">here</a>.
1.260 ian 817:
818: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
819: <a href="http://www.seas.upenn.edu/whatsnew/computer-security.html">
820: DARPA Awards Computer Scientists $2.1 Million to Integrate Security Features into Mainstream Computers</a>.
821: </strong></font><br>
822: The original announcement from the University of Pennsylvania about
823: the cooperative effort with OpenBSD et al with DARPA funding:
824: "During the last few decades, the government's approach has been
825: to contract researchers to develop high-security workstations
826: specifically for its own uses, outside of the mainstream computer
827: industry," said [Prof. Jonathan] Smith, Professor of Computer and Information
828: Science at Penn. "The problem is that development of these special-purpose
829: computers has generally progressed so slowly that the machines,
830: while indeed secure, are technically obsolete by the time they are
831: put into service."
832: <p>
833: "Smith and colleagues at Penn, the software development consortium
834: OpenBSD, and the Apache Software Foundation and OpenSSL Group
835: propose to use the open-source movement - where programmers openly
836: share incremental advances - to try to engineer better security
837: features into mainstream computers, not only those developed just
838: for the military and other high-security organizations. The
839: government then benefits by purchasing more affordable, standardized
840: computers with security features."
841: <p>
1.329 ian 842:
843: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
844: <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2079549/">
845: Bush's Cyberstrategery: The administration's war against a bogus threat </a>,
846: Slate,
847: March 3, 2003.
848: </strong></font><br>
849: Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD
850: surrounding the Bush Administration's recent
851: <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy
852: to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by
853: big-lie-hyping the threat of system crackers into a new force to be
854: made war upon, like the "war" on drugs and the "war" on terrorism.
855: Concludes: "... the bulk of the report's solutions are lame. Most
856: are meaningless jargon, such as suggesting that "future components
857: of the cyber infrastructure are built to be inherently secure and
858: dependable for their users." A fantastic sentiment, but as mushy
859: as stating that the president is "for the children." What about
860: making software vendors liable for bug-ridden products? Or rooting
861: out insecure Microsoft products like the troubled SQL server in favor
862: of more secure open-source solutions like
863: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>?"
864: I can scarcely believe that Slate's owner Microsoft is paying
865: them to write this stuff (nor that Koerner thinks OpenBSD is a database :-)).
866: Finally: "Nothing so bold is forthcoming in the Strategy. Which is
867: yet another indicator that the czars of national computer security
868: are perfectly content to tease out the hyperbole in perpetuity.
869: The bigger the perceived threat, the greater their importance inside
870: the Beltway."
871: <p>
1.251 ian 872: </ul>
873:
1.249 jufi 874: <h2>January, 2003</h2>
875: <ul>
876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
877: <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=568">
878: Feature: OpenBSD's Battle For UltraSparc III Documentation</a>,
1.269 deraadt 879: Kerneltrap, January 26, 2003.
1.249 jufi 880: </strong></font><br>
881: Jeremy Andrews writes a report about how he tried to contact Sun and make
882: them explain their position concerning their "open" architecture
1.290 jose 883: UltraSparc-III - and fails due to Sun's no response politics.
1.249 jufi 884: <p>
1.334 ian 885:
886: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
887: <a href="http://www.egovos.org/pdf/dodfoss.pdf">Use of Free and
888: Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the U.S. Department of Defense</a>,
889: MITRE Report Number MP 02 W0000101, revised January 2, 2003
890: </strong></font><br>
891: Prepared by The MITRE Corporation for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency),
892: this report analyses how DOD uses open source software.
893: The summary talks briefly about various terms (free, open source, etc.),
894: then talks about the survey itself, one question of which was
895: "... the hypothetical question ...
896: of what would happen if FOSS software were banned in the DoD."
897: <br>
898: "The main conclusion of the analysis was that FOSS software plays
899: a more critical role in the DoD than has generally been recognized.
900: FOSS applications are most important in four broad areas: Infrastructure
901: Support, Software Development, Security, and Research. One unexpected
902: result was the degree to which Security depends on FOSS. Banning
903: FOSS would remove certain types of infrastructure components (e.g.,
1.335 david 904: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/">OpenBSD</a>) that currently help
1.334 ian 905: support network security.
906: It would also limit DoD access to, and overall expertise in, the use of
907: powerful FOSS analysis and detection applications that hostile groups could
908: use to help stage cyberattacks. Finally, it would remove the
909: demonstrated ability of FOSS applications to be updated rapidly in
910: response to new types of cyberattack. Taken together, these factors
911: imply that banning FOSS would have immediate, broad, and strongly
912: negative impacts on the ability of many sensitive and security-focused
913: DoD groups to defend against cyberattacks."
914: <br>
915: So, let's hope the policy wonks read this report.
916: <p>
917:
1.249 jufi 918: </ul>
919:
1.246 jufi 920: <h2>December, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 921: <ul>
1.246 jufi 922:
1.247 jufi 923: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 924: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-975941.html">
1.269 deraadt 925: Open-Source clan in spat with Sun</a>,
926: CNET News.com, December 04, 2002.
1.246 jufi 927: </strong></font><br>
928: Report about Sun refusing to give proper documentation for their
929: UltraSPARC III CPUs to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
930: <p>
931:
1.247 jufi 932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 933: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-04.12.02-006/">
934: [German] Sun blockiert OpenBSD</a>,
935: Heise News-Ticker, December 04, 2002
936: </strong></font><br>
937: Sun refusing to give proper documentation of their UltraSPARC III cpu
938: to the OpenBSD project without signing a NDA.
939: <p>
940:
941: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 942: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,743002,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 943: OpenHack 2002 Downloads</a>,
944: eWeek, December 03, 2002.
1.246 jufi 945: </strong></font><br>
946: eWEEK used OpenBSD as their four firewalls, mail-, web- and dns-server
947: in their annual OpenHack security test.
948: <p>
1.247 jufi 949: </ul>
1.246 jufi 950:
1.244 jufi 951: <h2>October, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 952: <ul>
1.246 jufi 953:
1.247 jufi 954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.246 jufi 955: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/10/31/ssn_openbsd.html">
956: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 9:
957: Simple Things to Improve Your System's Security</a>,
1.269 deraadt 958: O'Reilly Network, October 31, 2002.
1.246 jufi 959: </strong></font><br>
960: Learn how to further improve the security of the system like using
961: file flags, disallowing root login via OpenSSH or creating and using
962: md5 digests.
963: <p>
964:
1.247 jufi 965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 966: <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,640713,00.asp">
1.269 deraadt 967: OpenBSD 3.2 is back on track</a>,
968: eWeek, October 18, 2002.
1.244 jufi 969: </strong></font><br>
970: A nice summary of the developers recent struggle to secure the system
971: even more. The article sums up those new features and recommends OpenBSD
972: especially for "those edge-of-the-network spots where things have to be
973: right the first time."
974: <p>
1.247 jufi 975: </ul>
1.244 jufi 976:
977:
978: <h2>August, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 979: <ul>
1.244 jufi 980:
1.247 jufi 981: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 982: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/22/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 983: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 8: Managing Advanced PF Logs</a>,
984: O'Reilly Network, August 22, 2002.
1.244 jufi 985: </strong></font><br>
986: Using Perl to improve the "readpflog" script from
987: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
988: part 6</a>.
989: <p>
990:
1.247 jufi 991: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.244 jufi 992: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/08/08/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 993: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 7:</a>,
994: O'Reilly Network, August 08, 2002.
1.244 jufi 995: </strong></font><br>
996: Improving the security of remote logging and learning how to calculate
997: the necessary space for logging is the target of this part of the series.
998: <p>
1.301 jose 999:
1000: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1001: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">
1002: [Polish] OpenBSD and Linux</a>,
1003: LinuxNews Radio, August 2, 2000
1004: </strong></font><br>
1005:
1006: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1007: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1008: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
1009: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
1010: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
1011: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
1012: <i>Here's the
1013: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
1014: <p>
1.247 jufi 1015: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1016:
1017: <h2>July, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1018: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1019:
1.247 jufi 1020: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1021: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/07/25/ssn_openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1022: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 6</a>,
1023: O'Reilly Network, July 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1024: </strong></font><br>
1025: Archiving pf log files using a monitoring station is how the
1026: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> continues.
1027: <p>
1028:
1.247 jufi 1029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1030: <a href="http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200207/transpfobsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1031: HOWTO: Transparent Packet Filtering with OpenBSD</a>,
1032: Daemonnews E-Zine, July 01, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1033: </strong></font><br>
1034: Another article describing a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD,
1035: this time using pf.
1036: <p>
1.247 jufi 1037: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1038:
1039: <h2>June, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1040: <ul>
1.242 jufi 1041:
1.247 jufi 1042: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1043: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/20/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1044: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 5</a>,
1045: O'Reilly Network, June 20, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1046: </strong></font><br>
1047: The <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a> is continued with
1048: an article about the secret life of pf log files, or better
1049: their rotation.
1050: <p>
1051:
1.247 jufi 1052: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1053: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/06/ssnwopenbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1054: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 4</a>,
1055: O'Reilly Network, June 06, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1056: </strong></font><br>
1057: More material about pf, this time describing how to do proper logging in pf.
1058: <p>
1.247 jufi 1059: </ul>
1.242 jufi 1060:
1.239 jufi 1061: <h2>April, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1062: <ul>
1.239 jufi 1063:
1.247 jufi 1064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1065: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/25/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1066: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 3</a>,
1067: O'Reilly Network, April 25, 2002.
1.242 jufi 1068: </strong></font><br>
1069: Another article in this <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/58">series</a>,
1070: describing how packets are handled by pf, and how sendmail can get problems
1071: if you set your firewall up like told in article 1 and 2.
1072: <p>
1073:
1.247 jufi 1074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.239 jufi 1075: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/04/11/securing.html">
1.269 deraadt 1076: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 2</a>,
1077: O'Reilly Network, April 11, 2002.
1.239 jufi 1078: </strong></font><br>
1.242 jufi 1079: The successor of an article covering OpenBSD 2.9 and ipf, this article
1080: covers OpenBSD 3.0 and pf. Basics of pf and translation of firewall rules
1081: from ipf to pf are the main topics.
1.239 jufi 1082: <p>
1.247 jufi 1083: </ul>
1.239 jufi 1084:
1.235 lebel 1085: <h2>March, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1086: <ul>
1.235 lebel 1087:
1.239 jufi 1088:
1.247 jufi 1089: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.235 lebel 1090: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-863169.html">
1.269 deraadt 1091: Want a Windows alternative? Try BSD</a>,
1092: ZDNet News AnchorDesk, March 19, 2002.
1.235 lebel 1093: </strong></font><br>
1094: Pretty good commentary about the three BSD. Author talks about why people might
1095: want to look at the various BSD instead of Linux. It especially praises
1096: OpenBSD's development methodologies and security by default attitude.
1097: <p>
1.301 jose 1098:
1.247 jufi 1099: </ul>
1.235 lebel 1100:
1.228 horacio 1101: <h2>February, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1102: <ul>
1.228 horacio 1103:
1.247 jufi 1104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.242 jufi 1105: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/02/28/openbsd.html">
1.269 deraadt 1106: Securing Small Networks With OpenBSD, Part 1</a>,
1107: O'Reilly Network, February 28, 2002
1.242 jufi 1108: </strong></font><br>
1109: The beginning of a series about OpenBSD as a firewall, using ipf as the packet filter,
1110: and thus less up-to-date than the rest of the series, which uses pf.
1111: <p>
1112:
1.247 jufi 1113: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.233 jufi 1114: <a href="http://theregister.co.uk/content/55/24239.html">
1.269 deraadt 1115: Woz blesses Captain Crunch's new box</a>,
1116: The Register, February 27, 2002
1.233 jufi 1117: </strong></font><br>
1118: Andrew Orlowski talking to Steven Wozniak about Captain Crunch's new CrunchBox,
1119: a Firewall/IDS system running OpenBSD 2.9 and snort together with some custom-written heuristics.
1120: <p>
1121:
1.247 jufi 1122: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.232 jufi 1123: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/February/Features642.html">
1.269 deraadt 1124: Parents: OpenBSD Is Superior</a>,
1125: BSD Today, February 27, 2002
1.232 jufi 1126: </strong></font><br>
1127: Ben Goren tells us, why he prefers OpenBSD instead of a well known Linux distribution
1128: on the desktop of his parents.
1129: <p>
1130:
1.247 jufi 1131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1132: <a href="http://www.openlysecure.org/openbsd/how-to/invisible_firewall.html">
1.269 deraadt 1133: Memoirs of an invisible firewall</a>,
1134: openlysecure.org, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1135: </strong></font><br>
1136: An older article discussing the usage of OpenBSD as a bridged firewall
1137: using IPFilter.
1138:
1139: <p>
1140:
1.247 jufi 1141: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.229 jufi 1142: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2846265,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1143: BSD operating systems: Perspective</a>,
1144: ZDNet Tech Update, February 13, 2002
1.229 jufi 1145: </strong></font><br>
1146: A discussion about the three free BSDs and BSD/OS as competitors to Linux and commercial
1147: Unices. Mary Hubley overviews themes beginning from the history of BSD to the future
1148: perspectives of the four OS.
1149: <br>
1150: The OpenBSD review stresses the security of the OS as well as integrated crypto
1.250 jufi 1151: mechanisms like OpenSSH, IPsec or Kerberos.
1.229 jufi 1152: <p>
1153:
1.247 jufi 1154: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.228 horacio 1155: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/16160.html">
1156: OpenBSD as an example for Microsoft would-be improvements in
1.269 deraadt 1157: software and security</a>,
1158: OS Opinion, February 5, 2002
1.228 horacio 1159: </strong></font><br>
1160:
1161: Following Microsoft's purposed announcement to address
1162: security issues in its code, the author of this article sets
1163: OpenBSD as the only example known to him of an OS which is
1164: regularly audited for security problems in its source code.
1165: He warns other Operating Systems to start taking security as a
1166: serious issue and says: "<em>Should Microsoft have even
1167: a fraction of success in finding and squashing bugs that
1168: OpenBSD has had, other OS developers might find themselves in
1169: a bad position soon.</em>"<br>
1170: Not bad for a marketing campaign, though Microsoft's records
1171: offer no credibility ... whereas OpenBSD has proved it's a
1172: security conscious team beyond doubt.
1173: <p>
1.247 jufi 1174: </ul>
1.228 horacio 1175:
1.225 horacio 1176: <h2>January, 2002</h2>
1.247 jufi 1177: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1178:
1.247 jufi 1179: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1180: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2002/January/Features617.html">
1181: A commercial hosting company implements OpenBSD: An
1.269 deraadt 1182: Interview</a>,
1183: BSD Today, January, 2002
1.225 horacio 1184: </strong></font><br>
1185:
1186: Open Source writer Robert Bernstein talks to Chris Nadovich,
1187: owner and operator of a web and Unix shell hosting venture.
1188: C. Nadovich tells about how they migrated from their early
1.231 jufi 1189: SysV systems to Linux and finally to BSD, which he explains in
1.225 horacio 1190: terms of their security concern "<em>It was the rise of
1191: evil in the networking world that opened our eyes to some
1192: "compelling differences" and eventually brought us to
1193: OpenBSD.</em>".<br>
1194: In all, a very good article on how an experienced Internet
1.240 miod 1195: services provider business ended up with OpenBSD as their OS
1.225 horacio 1196: of choice.
1197: <p>
1.247 jufi 1198: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1199:
1200: <h2>December, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1201: <ul>
1.225 horacio 1202:
1.247 jufi 1203: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1204: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/December/News604.html">
1.269 deraadt 1205: OpenBSD 3.0 officially released</a>,
1206: BSD Today, December, 2001
1.225 horacio 1207: </strong></font><br>
1208:
1209: OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement on BSD Today.
1210: <p>
1211:
1.247 jufi 1212: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1213: <a href="http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/12182001/">
1.269 deraadt 1214: OpenBSD 3.0 Debuts</a>,
1215: ITworld, December 18, 2001
1.226 horacio 1216: </strong></font><br>
1217:
1218: Features the OpenBSD 3.0 release announcement and some
1219: comments from Theo de Raadt on this new version.
1220: <p>
1.247 jufi 1221: </ul>
1.225 horacio 1222:
1.218 horacio 1223: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1224: <ul>
1.218 horacio 1225:
1.247 jufi 1226: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1227: <a href="http://www.kerneltrap.org/article.php?sid=389">
1.269 deraadt 1228: Interview with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1229: kerneltrap.org, November 26, 2001
1.225 horacio 1230: </strong></font><br>
1231:
1232: Jeremy Andrews on an extensive interview with Theo de Raadt.
1233: Most of the interview are interesting questions and answers,
1234: but Theo seems to enjoy some of the questioning, like when he
1235: is asked about Soft Updates or the current state of OpenBSD's
1236: new packet filter, PF, offering then an expanded view on the
1237: subjects. Worth a read.
1238: <p>
1239:
1240:
1.247 jufi 1241: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.218 horacio 1242: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
1.269 deraadt 1243: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>,
1244: ZDNet, November 6, 2001
1.218 horacio 1245: </strong></font><br>
1246:
1247: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
1248: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
1249: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
1250: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
1251: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
1252: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
1253: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
1254: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
1255: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
1.222 miod 1256: TCP/IP stack built-in IPsec protocol, as ready to use VPN
1.218 horacio 1257: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
1258: on other operating systems.<br>
1259: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
1260: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
1261: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
1262: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
1263: <p>
1264:
1.247 jufi 1265: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1266: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=1778/byt20011031s0004/">
1.269 deraadt 1267: Operating System 2010</a>,
1268: Byte, November 5, 2001
1.226 horacio 1269: </strong></font><br>
1270:
1271: A look into the near future for Operating Systems evolution,
1272: covering the level of software integration into the core
1273: system, OS built-in security, server and client distinction,
1274: and open, hybrid or closed models. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
1275: shows these perspectives from various OS speakers point of
1276: view, where the UNIX model in general, and OpenBSD model in
1277: particular, have a lot to say in this matter.
1278: <p>
1279:
1.247 jufi 1280: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.221 horacio 1281: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/11/05/011105tcbsd.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1282: BSD's strength lies in devilish details</a>,
1283: InfoWorld November 2, 2001
1.221 horacio 1284: </strong></font><br>
1285:
1286: By Tom Yager. In a comparison of the BSD-derived systems with
1287: those based in the Linux kernel, the author underlines the
1288: stability and security strengths of the BSDs. He brands
1289: OpenBSD as the <em>cop</em> of the group, remarking the fact
1290: that <em>"has never been breached to allow privileged
1291: access to an OpenBSD server"</em>.
1292: <p>
1.247 jufi 1293: </ul>
1.221 horacio 1294:
1.210 jufi 1295: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1296: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1297:
1.247 jufi 1298: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1299: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/29/011029opsource.xml">
1.269 deraadt 1300: Already a Contender</a>,
1301: InfoWorld, October 29, 2001
1.226 horacio 1302: </strong></font><br>
1303:
1304: Open source consultant Russell Pavlicek advocates on open
1305: source software in response to an article which claimed that
1306: open source cannot innovate. He refutes this claim naming a
1307: few open source software such as sendmail, apache or BIND, ...
1308: <em>Oh, and if you are tired of IIS being hacked, try Apache
1309: under OpenBSD for a much secure Web presence.</em>
1310: <p>
1311:
1.247 jufi 1312: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.224 horacio 1313: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-504079.html">
1.269 deraadt 1314: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>,
1315: ZDNet, October 2, 2001
1.210 jufi 1316: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1317:
1.224 horacio 1318: IT writer, Stephan Somogyi, and Counterpane Systems' CTO,
1319: Bruce Schneier, in an article about the effects and
1320: consequences of the Code Red worm which attacked Webservers
1321: running the IIS from Microsoft, the merits of reliability
1322: instead of new features are discussed. As a positive example
1323: they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 1324: <p>
1.247 jufi 1325: </ul>
1.215 horacio 1326:
1327: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1328: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1329:
1.247 jufi 1330: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1331: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Media/announcements.html#alert_8_23_01">
1332: OpenBSD firewall gateway at NASA's Advanced Supercomputing
1.269 deraadt 1333: Division</a>,
1334: August 23, 2001
1.227 horacio 1335: </strong></font><br>
1336:
1337: The network security group in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing
1338: (NAS) Division implements a firewall gateway with OpenBSD
1.231 jufi 1339: which was deployed, according to the NASA announcement, to
1.227 horacio 1340: <em>addresses the well-known problems of the 802.11b standard
1341: wireless systems -- with a minimum of time and
1342: investment</em>.<br>
1343: The implementation details can be seen on their
1344: <a href="http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Networks/Projects/Wireless/index.html">Wireless Firewall Gateway White Paper</a>.
1345: <p>
1346:
1.247 jufi 1347: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1348: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">
1349: [Spanish] HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
1350: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
1351: </strong></font><br>
1352:
1353: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1354: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1355: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
1356: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
1357: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
1358: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
1359: A Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
1360: <p>
1361:
1362: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1363: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1364: Thinking about Security</a>,
1365: Unix Review, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1366: </strong></font><br>
1367:
1368: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
1369: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
1370: security and says that even secured operating systems running
1371: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
1372: to time.<br>
1373: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
1374: system and just the most secure system.
1375: <p>
1376:
1.247 jufi 1377: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 1378: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
1.269 deraadt 1379: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>,
1380: SysAdmin, August 2001
1.215 horacio 1381: </strong></font><br>
1382:
1383: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
1384: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
1385: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
1386: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
1387: choice:<br>
1388: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
1389: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
1390: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
1391: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
1392: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
1393: network security devices and as such must be well
1394: armored."</em><br>
1395: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
1396: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
1397: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
1398: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
1399: <br>
1400: Bravo!
1401: <p>
1.247 jufi 1402: </ul>
1.210 jufi 1403:
1.207 ian 1404: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1405: <ul>
1.215 horacio 1406:
1.247 jufi 1407: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.207 ian 1408: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
1409: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
1410: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 1411:
1.207 ian 1412: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
1413: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 1414: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 1415: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
1416: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
1417: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 1418: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 1419: <p>
1.247 jufi 1420: </ul>
1.207 ian 1421:
1.194 jufi 1422: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1423: <ul>
1.194 jufi 1424:
1.247 jufi 1425: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1426: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
1.269 deraadt 1427: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>,
1428: InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
1.213 horacio 1429: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1430:
1.240 miod 1431: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb addresses the question
1.213 horacio 1432: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
1433: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
1434: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
1435: <p>
1436:
1.247 jufi 1437: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1438: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">
1439: [Finnish] ITviikko - uutinen</a>,
1440: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
1441:
1442: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD,
1443: and thus IPF will be removed from OpenBSD.
1444: <p>
1445:
1446: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1447: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
1448: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1449: June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
1450:
1451: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
1452: <p>
1453:
1454: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1455: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-11-530016.html">
1.201 horacio 1456: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
1457: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
1458: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1459:
1.240 miod 1460: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF license and
1.206 ian 1461: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 1462: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
1463: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
1464: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 1465: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 1466: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
1467: <br>
1468: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
1469: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
1470: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
1471: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
1472: <p>
1473:
1.247 jufi 1474: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.194 jufi 1475: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
1476: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 1477: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 1478: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1479:
1.194 jufi 1480: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
1481: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
1482: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
1483: <br>
1484: The new
1485: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 1486: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
1.228 horacio 1487: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on logdaemon!
1488: <p>
1.247 jufi 1489: </ul>
1.194 jufi 1490:
1.190 horacio 1491: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1492: <ul>
1.190 horacio 1493:
1.247 jufi 1494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.191 jufi 1495:
1496: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
1497: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
1498:
1.301 jose 1499:
1.191 jufi 1500: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
1501: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
1502:
1503: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
1504: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
1505:
1.212 horacio 1506: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
1507: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 1508: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
1509:
1.211 horacio 1510: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
1511: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 1512: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
1513:
1.247 jufi 1514: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
1.191 jufi 1515: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
1516:
1.247 jufi 1517: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.191 jufi 1518: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
1519:
1.212 horacio 1520: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
1521: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 1522: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
1523:
1524: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
1525: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
1526:
1527: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
1528: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
1529:
1.301 jose 1530: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14"> [Swedish] Computer
1531: Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001<br>
1532:
1.191 jufi 1533: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
1534: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
1535:
1536: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 1537: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 1538:
1.192 jufi 1539: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
1540: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 1541: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 1542:
1.193 deraadt 1543: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
1544: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 1545: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 1546:
1.247 jufi 1547: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
1.196 deraadt 1548: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
1549:
1.247 jufi 1550: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
1.198 pvalchev 1551: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
1552: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
1553:
1.213 horacio 1554: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
1.247 jufi 1555: 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 1556: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
1557:
1.190 horacio 1558: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 1559: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
1560: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
1561: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
1562: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
1563: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
1564: <p>
1.190 horacio 1565:
1.247 jufi 1566: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 1567: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-linux-openbsd.html">
1568: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD</a>,
1569: SecurityPortal (now at Seifried's site), May 16, 2001
1.195 jufi 1570: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1571:
1.195 jufi 1572: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.219 horacio 1573: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/os/20011107-openbsd-linux.html">"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"</a>,
1574: Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good
1575: programming is more important than dozens of features and
1.195 jufi 1576: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
1577: <p>
1578:
1.247 jufi 1579: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 1580: <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1001-257013.html">
1.191 jufi 1581: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
1582: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
1583: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1584:
1.191 jufi 1585: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
1.301 jose 1586: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a>
1587: concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers (ISN), which could be used to hijack
1588: TCP connections of several OS's, but not so with OpenBSD.
1589: <p>
1590:
1591: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1592: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
1593: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1594: May 3, 2001</strong></font><br>
1595:
1596: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
1597: being best of brand when it comes to security.
1.190 horacio 1598: <p>
1.247 jufi 1599: </ul>
1.190 horacio 1600:
1.191 jufi 1601:
1.186 jufi 1602: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1603: <ul>
1.187 deraadt 1604:
1.247 jufi 1605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.186 jufi 1606: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 1607: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
1608: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 1609: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 1610:
1.188 jufi 1611: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 1612: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 1613: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 1614: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
1615: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 1616: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 1617: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 1618: <p>
1619:
1.301 jose 1620: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1621: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
1622: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
1623: April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
1624:
1625: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
1626: <p>
1.191 jufi 1627:
1.247 jufi 1628: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.220 horacio 1629: <a href="http://www.seifried.org/security/articles/20011015-elias-levy-interview.html">
1630: Abandon hope all ye who enter here</a>,
1631: Security Portal (now at Seifried's site), April 05, 2001
1.191 jufi 1632: </strong></font><br>
1633:
1634: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
1635: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
1636: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
1637: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
1638: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
1639: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
1640: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
1641: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
1642: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
1643: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
1644: familiar?
1645: <p>
1.247 jufi 1646: </ul>
1.191 jufi 1647:
1.178 louis 1648: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1649: <ul>
1.178 louis 1650:
1.247 jufi 1651: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.187 deraadt 1652: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
1.269 deraadt 1653: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>,
1654: O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 1655: </strong></font><br>
1656:
1657: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
1658: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
1659: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
1660: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
1661: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
1662: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
1663: <p>
1664:
1.247 jufi 1665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1666: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">
1667: Open source under the hood</a>,
1668: Information Security, March 2001.
1.182 louis 1669: </strong></font><br>
1670:
1671: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
1672: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
1673: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
1674: <p>
1675:
1.247 jufi 1676: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1677: <a href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">
1678: Your Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>,
1679: Help Net Security, March 2001
1.179 louis 1680: </strong></font><br>
1681:
1682: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
1683: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
1684: <p>
1.247 jufi 1685: </ul>
1.179 louis 1686:
1.174 louis 1687:
1.175 louis 1688: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1689: <ul>
1.175 louis 1690:
1.247 jufi 1691: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1692: <a href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">
1693: Review: OpenBSD 2.8</a>,
1694: The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
1.179 louis 1695: </strong></font><br>
1696:
1697: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
1698: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
1699: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
1700: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
1701: <p>
1702:
1.247 jufi 1703: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1704: <a href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">
1705: Hardening OpenBSD Internet Servers</a>,
1706: GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
1.175 louis 1707: </strong></font><br>
1708:
1709: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 1710: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 1711: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
1712: <p>
1.247 jufi 1713: </ul>
1.175 louis 1714:
1.176 louis 1715:
1.172 mickey 1716: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
1.247 jufi 1717: <ul>
1.172 mickey 1718:
1.247 jufi 1719: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1720: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>,
1721: The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 1722: </strong></font><br>
1723:
1724: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
1725: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
1726: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 1727: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 1728: <p>
1729:
1.247 jufi 1730: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.176 louis 1731: <a
1.269 deraadt 1732: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">
1733: Theo de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>,
1734: NewsForge, January 29, 2001
1.174 louis 1735: </strong></font><br>
1736:
1737: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
1738: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
1739: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
1740: <p>
1741:
1.247 jufi 1742: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1743: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
1.269 deraadt 1744: BSD Channel is no more</a>,
1745: BSD Today, January 24, 2001
1.174 louis 1746: </strong></font><br>
1747:
1748: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
1749: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
1750: <p>
1751:
1.247 jufi 1752: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1753: <a
1.269 deraadt 1754: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">
1755: With Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
1.174 louis 1756: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
1757: </strong></font><br>
1758:
1759: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
1760: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
1761: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
1762: our own Theo de Raadt.
1763: <p>
1764:
1.247 jufi 1765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1766: <a
1.269 deraadt 1767: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">
1768: A lot of misinformation about BSD</a>,
1769: BSD Today, January 6, 2001
1.174 louis 1770: </strong></font><br>
1771:
1772: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
1773: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
1774: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
1775: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
1776: shut down.]
1777: <p>
1778:
1.247 jufi 1779: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.269 deraadt 1780: <a href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=865/ddj0165a/">
1.226 horacio 1781: Theo de Raadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.269 deraadt 1782: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>,
1783: Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 1784: </strong></font><br>
1785:
1786: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
1787: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
1788: <p>
1.247 jufi 1789: </ul>
1.172 mickey 1790:
1.161 louis 1791: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1792: <ul>
1.161 louis 1793:
1.247 jufi 1794: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1795: <a
1.269 deraadt 1796: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">
1797: Florist.com Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>,
1798: Enterprise Linux Today, December 26, 2000
1.175 louis 1799: </strong></font><br>
1800:
1801: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
1802: by John Wolley
1803: <p>
1804:
1.247 jufi 1805: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.175 louis 1806: <a
1.269 deraadt 1807: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">
1808: OpenBSD exploit gets serious</a>,
1809: The Register, December 20, 2000
1.175 louis 1810: </strong></font><br>
1811:
1812: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
1813: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
1814: OpenBSD).
1815: <p>
1816:
1.247 jufi 1817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1818: <a
1.247 jufi 1819: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
1.171 louis 1820: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
1821: </strong></font><br>
1822:
1823: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
1824: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
1825: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
1826: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
1827: and hindsight.
1828: <p>
1829:
1.247 jufi 1830: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 1831: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
1832: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
1833: </strong></font><br>
1834:
1835: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
1836: <p>
1837:
1.247 jufi 1838: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.171 louis 1839: <a
1.168 provos 1840: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
1841: December 7, 2000
1842: </strong></font><br>
1843:
1844: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
1845: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
1846: us explain.
1847: <p>
1848:
1.247 jufi 1849: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.234 jufi 1850: <a href="http://seifried.org/security/technical/20020307-kernel-options.html">
1851: System and Network Security - Kernel Options</a>,
1.211 horacio 1852: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 1853: December 6, 2000
1854: </strong></font><br>
1855:
1856: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
1857: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
1858: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
1859: <p>
1860:
1.247 jufi 1861: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 1862: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">
1863: [Japanese] Opinion: why I use OpenBSD</a>,
1864: MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
1865: </strong></font><br>
1866:
1867: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
1868: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1869: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1870: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1871: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1872: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1873: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1874: <p>
1875:
1876: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.166 louis 1877: <a
1.226 horacio 1878: href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/12/03/1204bsd.html">
1879: Why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWeek, December 4, 2000
1.162 millert 1880: </strong></font><br>
1881:
1882: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 1883: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 1884: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 1885: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
1886: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
1887: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
1.222 miod 1888: documentation to allow their IPsec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 1889: <p>
1.162 millert 1890:
1.247 jufi 1891: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.162 millert 1892: <a
1.161 louis 1893: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
1894: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
1895: </strong></font><br>
1896:
1897: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
1898: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
1899: <p>
1900:
1.247 jufi 1901: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.225 horacio 1902: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/December/News345.html">
1903: OpenBSD 2.8 officially released</a>, BSD Today, December, 2000
1904: </strong></font><br>
1905:
1906: OpenBSD 2.8 official release announcement on BSD Today.
1907: <p>
1908:
1909:
1.247 jufi 1910: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.169 louis 1911: <a
1.226 horacio 1912: href="http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=875/ddj0065o/">
1913: The Future of OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>,
1914: Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
1.169 louis 1915: </strong></font><br>
1916:
1917: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
1918: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
1919: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
1920: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
1921: <p>
1.247 jufi 1922: </ul>
1.169 louis 1923:
1.158 louis 1924: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1925: <ul>
1.147 louis 1926:
1.247 jufi 1927: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1928: <a href="http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-503171.html">
1929: BSD to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
1.175 louis 1930: </strong></font><br>
1931:
1932: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
1933: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
1934: <p>
1935:
1.247 jufi 1936: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 1937: <a href="http://macweek.macworld.com/2000/11/19/1123somogyi.html">
1938: <!-- http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html" -->
1939: Is Darwin getting due respect?</a>, MacWeek, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 1940: </strong></font><br>
1941: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
1942: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
1943: <p>
1944:
1.247 jufi 1945: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.161 louis 1946: <a
1947: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
1948: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
1949: </strong></font><br>
1950:
1951: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
1952: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
1953: <p>
1954:
1.247 jufi 1955: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1956: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 1957: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
1958: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 1959:
1.213 horacio 1960: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 1961: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
1962: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
1963: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
1964: <p>
1.215 horacio 1965:
1.247 jufi 1966: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.174 louis 1967: <a
1968: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
1969: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
1970: </strong></font><br>
1971:
1972: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
1973: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
1974: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
1975: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
1976: much of the attitude too).
1977: <p>
1.161 louis 1978:
1.247 jufi 1979: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 1980: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1981: <u>BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference</u>, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 1982: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 1983:
1.157 louis 1984: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
1985: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
1986: <p>
1.247 jufi 1987: </ul>
1.157 louis 1988:
1989: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 1990: <ul>
1.157 louis 1991:
1.247 jufi 1992: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 1993: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 1994: <u>Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet</u>, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 1995: </strong></font><br>
1996:
1997: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
1998: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
1999: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
2000: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
2001: <p>
2002:
1.247 jufi 2003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.156 louis 2004: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
2005: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
2006: </strong></font><br>
2007:
2008: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
2009: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
2010: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
2011: it because they love coding...
2012: <p>
2013:
1.247 jufi 2014: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.156 louis 2015: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
2016: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
2017: </strong></font><br>
2018:
2019: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
2020: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
2021: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
2022: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
2023: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
2024: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
2025: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
2026: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
2027: <p>
2028:
1.247 jufi 2029: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2030: <!-- a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html" -->
2031: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/weblogarticle/0,6799,194423,00.html">
2032: Cry Hackerdom!</a>, FEED (Guardian Unlimited), October 17, 2000
1.153 louis 2033: </strong></font><br>
2034:
2035: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
2036: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
2037: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
2038: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
2039: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
2040: the pizza.
2041: <p>
2042:
1.247 jufi 2043: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.150 louis 2044: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
2045: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
2046: </strong></font><br>
2047:
2048: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
2049: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
2050: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
2051: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
2052: problems.
2053: <p>
2054:
1.247 jufi 2055: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.243 ian 2056: <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 2057: </strong></font><br>
2058:
1.222 miod 2059: OpenBSD, IPsec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
1.154 louis 2060: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
2061: - whether they like it or not.
2062: <p>
2063:
1.247 jufi 2064: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2065: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39dceffe0.html">
2066: OpenBSD plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
1.148 aaron 2067: </strong></font><br>
2068:
2069: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
2070: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
2071: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 2072: <p>
1.148 aaron 2073:
1.247 jufi 2074: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2075: <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 2076: </strong></font><br>
2077:
2078: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
2079: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
2080: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
2081: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
2082: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
2083: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
2084: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
2085: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
2086: <p>
2087:
1.247 jufi 2088: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2089: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
2090: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 2091: </strong></font><br>
2092:
2093: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
2094: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
2095: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
2096: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
2097: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
2098: <p>
1.247 jufi 2099: </ul>
1.147 louis 2100:
1.138 louis 2101: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2102: <ul>
1.138 louis 2103:
1.247 jufi 2104: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2105: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
2106: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>,
2107: <!-- a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html" -->
2108: Chris Coleman Explains BSD Unix, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 2109: </strong></font><br>
2110:
1.227 horacio 2111: (Note: the second article is no longer online)<br>
1.146 louis 2112: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
2113: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
2114: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
2115: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
2116: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
2117: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
2118: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 2119: <p>
2120:
1.247 jufi 2121: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.231 jufi 2122: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2631312,00.html">
1.227 horacio 2123: BSD System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.200 niklas 2124: </strong></font><br>
2125:
2126: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
2127: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
2128: groups, and even Linux.
2129: <p>
2130:
1.247 jufi 2131: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2132: <a href="http://upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=39b82a2e0">
2133: Primed and ready</a>,
1.139 louis 2134: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
2135: </strong></font><br>
2136:
2137: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
2138: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
2139: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
2140: library after installing the OS.
2141: <p>
2142:
1.247 jufi 2143: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.227 horacio 2144: <u>OpenBSD as a VPN Solution</u> <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 2145: Sys Admin, September 2000
2146: </strong></font><br>
2147:
2148: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
2149: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
2150: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
2151: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
1.247 jufi 2152: (<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>,
2153: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
2154: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
2155: <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 2156: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 2157: out of the system.
2158: <p>
2159:
1.247 jufi 2160: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.144 louis 2161: <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
2162: </strong></font><br>
2163:
2164: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 2165: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
2166: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
2167: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
2168: the IP filtering and address translation.
2169: <p>
1.301 jose 2170:
2171: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2172: [German] Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2173: </strong></font><br>
2174:
2175: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2176: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2177: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2178: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2179: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2180: <p>
1.247 jufi 2181: </ul>
1.200 niklas 2182:
1.131 louis 2183: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2184: <ul>
1.131 louis 2185:
1.247 jufi 2186: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2187: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
2188: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
2189: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 2190: </strong></font><br>
2191:
2192: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
2193: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
2194: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
2195: <p>
2196:
1.247 jufi 2197: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.143 louis 2198: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
2199: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
2200: </strong></font><br>
2201:
2202: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
2203: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
2204: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
2205: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
2206: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
2207: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
2208: note of"</i>.
2209: <p>
2210:
1.247 jufi 2211: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.141 louis 2212: <a
1.247 jufi 2213: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
1.141 louis 2214: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
2215: </strong></font><br>
2216:
2217: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
2218: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
2219: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
2220: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
2221: <p>
2222:
1.247 jufi 2223: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.155 deraadt 2224: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 2225: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
2226: </strong></font><br>
2227:
2228: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
2229: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
2230: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
2231: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
2232: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
2233: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
2234: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
2235: <p>
2236:
1.247 jufi 2237: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.134 louis 2238: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
2239: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
2240: 2000
2241: </strong></font><br>
2242:
2243: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
2244: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
2245: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
2246: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
2247: against current industry practices.
2248: <p>
2249:
1.247 jufi 2250: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.140 louis 2251: <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
2252: </strong></font><br>
2253:
2254: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
2255: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
2256: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
2257: <p>
2258:
1.247 jufi 2259: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.133 louis 2260: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
2261: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
2262: </strong></font><br>
2263:
2264: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
2265: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
2266: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
2267: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
2268: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
2269: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
2270: careful code reviews, he concludes.
2271: <p>
2272:
1.247 jufi 2273: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.131 louis 2274: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
2275: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
2276: </strong></font><br>
2277:
2278: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
2279: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
2280: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
2281: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
2282: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 2283: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
2284: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
2285: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 2286: <p>
1.247 jufi 2287: </ul>
1.131 louis 2288:
1.118 louis 2289: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2290: <ul>
1.118 louis 2291:
1.247 jufi 2292: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.125 deraadt 2293: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
2294: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
2295: </strong></font><br>
2296:
2297: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
2298: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
2299: about time. The article mentions that
2300: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
2301: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
2302: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 2303: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 2304: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
2305: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 2306: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 2307: <p>
2308:
1.247 jufi 2309: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2310: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 2311: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2312: </strong></font><br>
2313:
2314: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
2315: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
2316: of OpenSSH.
2317: <p>
2318:
1.247 jufi 2319: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2320: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
1.227 horacio 2321: <u>IPsec - We've Got a Ways To Go</u> (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 2322: </strong></font><br>
2323:
2324: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 2325: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 2326: bridging.
2327: <p>
2328:
1.247 jufi 2329: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2330: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
2331: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 2332: </strong></font><br>
2333:
1.121 deraadt 2334: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
2335: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 2336: <p>
2337:
1.247 jufi 2338: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2339: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
2340: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
2341: </strong></font><br>
2342:
2343: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
2344: <p>
2345:
1.247 jufi 2346: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.118 louis 2347: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2348: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
2349: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
1.120 deraadt 2352: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
2353: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 2354: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
2355: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
2356: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
2357: <p>
2358:
1.247 jufi 2359: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.154 louis 2360: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
2361: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
2362: </strong></font><br>
2363:
1.222 miod 2364: Technical article about IPsec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
1.154 louis 2365: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
2366: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
2367: protocols and their quirks.
2368: <p>
2369:
1.247 jufi 2370: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2371: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
2372: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 2373: </strong></font><br>
2374:
2375: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
2376: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
2377: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 2378: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 2379: <p>
2380:
1.247 jufi 2381: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.139 louis 2382: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
2383: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
2384: </strong></font><br>
2385:
2386: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
2387: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
2388: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
2389: <p>
2390:
1.247 jufi 2391: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.119 reinhard 2392: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 2393: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
2394: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 2395: </strong></font><br>
2396:
2397: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
2398: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
2399: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
2400: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
2401: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
2402: <p>
1.247 jufi 2403: </ul>
1.118 louis 2404:
1.104 louis 2405: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2406: <ul>
1.104 louis 2407:
1.247 jufi 2408: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.114 louis 2409: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
2410: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
2411: </strong></font><br>
2412:
2413: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
2414: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
2415: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
2416: be a bit dry.
2417: <p>
2418:
1.247 jufi 2419: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.213 horacio 2420: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
2421: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
2422: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
2423: </strong></font><br>
2424: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
2425: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
2426: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
2427: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
2428: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
2429: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
2430: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
2431: <p>
2432:
1.247 jufi 2433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2434: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
2435: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 2436: 2000
1.128 louis 2437: </strong></font><br>
2438:
2439: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
2440: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
2441: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
2442: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
2443: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 2444: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 2445: <p>
2446:
1.247 jufi 2447: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2448: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
2449: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 2450: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 2451:
2452: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
2453: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
2454: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
2455: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 2456: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
2457: <p>
1.110 louis 2458:
1.247 jufi 2459: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a
1.117 louis 2460: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
2461: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
2462: </strong></font><br>
2463:
2464: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
2465: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
2466: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
2467: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
2468: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
2469: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
2470: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
2471: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
2472: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
2473: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
2474: <p>
2475:
1.247 jufi 2476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.108 louis 2477: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2478: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 2479:
2480: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
2481: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 2482: <p>
1.108 louis 2483:
1.247 jufi 2484: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.106 louis 2485: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
2486: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 2487: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 2488:
2489: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
2490: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
2491: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 2492: <p>
1.106 louis 2493:
1.247 jufi 2494: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.107 louis 2495: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
2496: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 2497: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 2498:
2499: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
2500: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
2501: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
2502: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 2503: <p>
1.107 louis 2504:
1.247 jufi 2505: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 2506: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
2507: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2508: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 2509:
2510: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
2511: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 2512: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 2513: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
2514: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 2515: <p>
1.105 louis 2516:
1.247 jufi 2517: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.184 louis 2518: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 2519: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 2520: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 2521:
1.113 naddy 2522: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
2523: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 2524: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 2525: <p>
1.104 louis 2526:
1.247 jufi 2527: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.121 deraadt 2528: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
2529: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
2530: </strong></font><br>
2531:
2532: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
2533: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
2534: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
2535: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
2536: <p>
1.301 jose 2537:
2538: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2539: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
2540: [Swedish] Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>,
2541: No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
2542:
2543: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2544: hardware-supported cryptography.
2545: <p>
1.247 jufi 2546: </ul>
1.121 deraadt 2547:
1.85 louis 2548: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2549: <ul>
1.85 louis 2550:
1.247 jufi 2551: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2552: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 2553: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 2554: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2555:
2556: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
2557: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
2558: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
2559: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
2560: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
2561: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
2562: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 2563: <p>
1.99 louis 2564:
1.247 jufi 2565: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2566: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 2567: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2568: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 2569:
2570: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
2571: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
2572: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
2573: conditions.
1.113 naddy 2574: <p>
1.100 louis 2575:
1.247 jufi 2576: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2577: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 2578: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2579: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 2580:
2581: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
2582: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
2583: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
2584: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 2585: <p>
1.95 louis 2586:
1.247 jufi 2587: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2588: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 2589: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2590: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 2591:
2592: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
2593: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 2594: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 2595: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
2596: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2597: <p>
1.92 louis 2598:
1.247 jufi 2599: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2600: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 2601: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 2602: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 2603:
2604: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
2605: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
2606: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
2607: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
2608: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
2609: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 2610: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 2611: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 2612: <p>
1.91 louis 2613:
1.247 jufi 2614: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2615: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
2616: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 2617: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2618:
2619: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
2620: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
2621: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
2622: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
2623: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
2624: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
2625: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
2626: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
2627: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 2628: <p>
1.90 louis 2629:
1.247 jufi 2630: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.126 deraadt 2631: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
2632: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
2633: </strong></font><br>
2634: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
2635: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
2636: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
2637: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
2638: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
2639: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
2640: <p>
2641:
1.247 jufi 2642: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.87 louis 2643: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
2644: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2645: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 2646:
1.113 naddy 2647: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
2648: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 2649: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
2650: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
2651: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
2652: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
2653: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 2654: <p>
1.87 louis 2655:
1.247 jufi 2656: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2657: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
2658: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 2659: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2660:
2661: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1.222 miod 2662: support for their PowerCrypt IPsec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 2663: <p>
1.85 louis 2664:
1.247 jufi 2665: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 2666: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
2667: [Swedish] Computer Sweden</a>,
2668: May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
2669:
2670: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
2671: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
2672: <p>
2673:
2674: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.89 louis 2675: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
2676: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2677: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2678:
2679: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 2680: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 2681: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
2682: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 2683: <p>
1.89 louis 2684:
1.247 jufi 2685: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.85 louis 2686: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
2687: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 2688: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 2689:
2690: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
2691: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
2692: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
2693: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
2694: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1.247 jufi 2695: </ul>
1.85 louis 2696:
1.78 deraadt 2697: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2698: <ul>
1.74 louis 2699:
1.247 jufi 2700: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2701: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 2702: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 2703: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 2704: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2705:
2706: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
2707: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
2708: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 2709: <p>
1.83 louis 2710:
1.247 jufi 2711: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.93 louis 2712: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
2713: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 2714: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 2715:
2716: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
2717: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.219 horacio 2718: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 2719: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
2720: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 2721: <p>
1.93 louis 2722:
1.247 jufi 2723: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 2724: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html"> -->
2725: Open Source - Why it's Good for Security,
2726: SecurityPortal, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 2727: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 2728:
1.83 louis 2729: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
2730: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
2731: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
2732: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
2733: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 2734: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
2735: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
2736: <p>
1.82 aaron 2737:
1.247 jufi 2738: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2739: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 2740: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2741: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 2742:
1.83 louis 2743: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
2744: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
2745: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 2746: <p>
1.80 louis 2747:
1.247 jufi 2748: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2749: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 2750: Bad Press</a>,
2751: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 2752: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 2753:
2754: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 2755: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 2756: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
2757: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
2758: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 2759: <p>
1.247 jufi 2760: </ul>
1.78 deraadt 2761:
2762: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2763: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 2764:
1.247 jufi 2765: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2766: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
2767: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 2768: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 2769: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 2770:
2771: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
2772: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
2773: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
2774: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 2775: <p>
1.74 louis 2776:
1.247 jufi 2777: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.88 louis 2778: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
2779: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 2780: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2781:
1.219 horacio 2782: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is
2783: now the subject. He discusses his role at Security Portal,
2784: the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
2785: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic
2786: about the future and predicts that with management apathy
2787: towards security, "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable
2788: computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 2789: <p>
1.88 louis 2790:
1.247 jufi 2791: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.115 louis 2792: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 2793: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 2794: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 2795:
2796: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
2797: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
2798: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
2799: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 2800: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 2801: <p>
1.81 louis 2802:
1.247 jufi 2803: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2804: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 2805: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2806: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 2807:
2808: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
2809: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
2810: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
2811: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
2812: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
2813: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
2814: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 2815: <p>
1.90 louis 2816:
1.247 jufi 2817: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2818: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 2819: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 2820: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 2821:
2822: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
2823: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
2824: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 2825: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 2826: <p>
1.247 jufi 2827: </ul>
1.71 louis 2828:
1.69 deraadt 2829: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2830: <ul>
1.70 louis 2831:
1.247 jufi 2832: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2833: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
2834: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 2835: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 2836:
2837: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
2838: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
2839: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 2840: <p>
1.70 louis 2841:
1.247 jufi 2842: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2843: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
2844: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 2845: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 2846:
2847: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.248 jufi 2848: how to set up packet filtering with ipf. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 2849: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 2850: <p>
1.68 louis 2851:
1.247 jufi 2852: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 2853: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
2854: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 2855: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 2856: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2857:
1.111 jufi 2858: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
2859: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 2860: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 2861: "secure by default" installation.
2862: <p>
1.64 louis 2863:
1.247 jufi 2864: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.152 deraadt 2865: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 2866: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 2867: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 2868:
1.113 naddy 2869: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 2870: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 2871: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 2872: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
2873: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
2874: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 2875: <p>
1.66 louis 2876:
1.247 jufi 2877: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2878: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 2879: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2880: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 2881:
2882: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 2883: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 2884: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
2885: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
2886: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 2887: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
2888: <p>
1.83 louis 2889:
1.247 jufi 2890: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2891: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 2892: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2893: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 2894:
2895: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 2896: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
2897: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 2898: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
2899: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 2900: <p>
1.64 louis 2901:
1.247 jufi 2902: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2903: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 2904: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 2905: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 2906:
2907: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
2908: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 2909: <p>
1.301 jose 2910:
2911: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
2912: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">
2913: [German] Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>,
2914: Bundesministerium des Innern, Februar 2000
2915: </strong></font><br>
2916:
2917: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
2918: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2919: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
2920: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
2921: Giving way to
2922: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2923: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2924: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2925: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
2926: <p>
1.247 jufi 2927: </ul>
1.65 louis 2928:
1.69 deraadt 2929: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1.247 jufi 2930: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 2931:
1.247 jufi 2932: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2933: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 2934: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 2935: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 2936:
2937: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
2938: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
2939: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
2940: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 2941: <p>
1.88 louis 2942:
1.247 jufi 2943: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 2944: <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 2945: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 2946:
2947: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 2948: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
2949: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 2950: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
2951: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 2952: <p>
1.60 louis 2953:
1.247 jufi 2954: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 2955: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
2956: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 2957: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 2958: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2959:
2960: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
2961: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
2962: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2963: <p>
1.58 louis 2964:
1.247 jufi 2965: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.136 louis 2966: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 2967: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 2968:
2969: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
2970: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 2971: <p>
1.53 louis 2972:
1.247 jufi 2973: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.99 louis 2974: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
2975: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 2976: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 2977:
2978: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
2979: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
2980: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 2981: <p>
1.99 louis 2982:
1.247 jufi 2983: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.58 louis 2984: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 2985: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 2986:
2987: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
2988: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 2989: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 2990: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 2991: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 2992:
1.247 jufi 2993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.214 horacio 2994: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
2995: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 2996: </strong></font><br>
2997:
2998: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
2999: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
3000: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
3001: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
3002: <p>
3003:
1.247 jufi 3004: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3005: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 3006: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3007: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3008:
3009: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
3010: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 3011: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 3012:
1.247 jufi 3013: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.55 deraadt 3014: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 3015: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 3016:
3017: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 3018: in
1.247 jufi 3019: <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 3020: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 3021: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 3022: <p>
1.53 louis 3023:
1.247 jufi 3024: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3025: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 3026: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
3027: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 3028: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 3029:
1.58 louis 3030: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3031: <p>
1.301 jose 3032:
3033: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3034: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">
3035: [Polish] OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
3036: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis
3037: Informacyjny, January 2000
3038: </strong></font><br>
3039:
3040: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
3041: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
3042: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
3043: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
3044: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
3045: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
3046: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
3047: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
3048: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
3049: with the translation. For the full text, see the
3050: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
3051: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
3052: <p>
3053:
3054: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3055: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3056: <u>January 2000 issue</u>
3057: </strong></font><br>
3058:
3059: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
3060: <p>
3061: </ul>
1.51 deraadt 3062:
1.69 deraadt 3063: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3064: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3065:
1.247 jufi 3066: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.219 horacio 3067: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html"> -->
3068: OpenSource projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others),
3069: Security Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 3070: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3071:
1.58 louis 3072: Kurt Seifried
3073: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3074: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
3075: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 3076: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 3077:
1.247 jufi 3078: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3079: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 3080: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3081: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 3082:
3083: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 3084: <p>
1.96 louis 3085:
1.247 jufi 3086: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3087: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
3088: [German] OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>,
3089: heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
3090: </strong></font><br>
3091:
3092: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
3093: <p>
3094:
3095: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3096: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 3097: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 3098: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 3099:
3100: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
3101: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
3102: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
3103: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 3104: <p>
1.247 jufi 3105: </ul>
1.86 louis 3106:
1.69 deraadt 3107: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3108: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3109:
1.247 jufi 3110: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3111: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
3112: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 3113: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3114:
3115: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
3116: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 3117: <p>
1.61 louis 3118:
1.247 jufi 3119: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3120: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 3121: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
3122: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3123: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 3124:
3125: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 3126: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 3127: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
3128: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 3129: right -- or at least strives to".
3130: <p>
1.48 louis 3131:
1.247 jufi 3132: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.61 louis 3133: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
3134: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3135: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 3136: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
3137: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
3138: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
3139: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 3140: <p>
1.61 louis 3141:
1.247 jufi 3142: <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 3143: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3144: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 3145:
3146: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
3147: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
3148: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
3149: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 3150: <p>
1.46 louis 3151:
1.247 jufi 3152: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.226 horacio 3153: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2386632,00.html">
3154: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 3155: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3156:
3157: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
3158: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 3159: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 3160:
1.247 jufi 3161: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.70 louis 3162: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
3163: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 3164: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 3165:
3166: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
3167: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
3168: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
3169: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 3170: <p>
1.247 jufi 3171: </ul>
1.70 louis 3172:
1.69 deraadt 3173: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3174: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3175:
1.247 jufi 3176: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.211 horacio 3177: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
3178: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 3179: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 3180: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 3181:
3182: Kurt Seifried
3183: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
3184: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
3185: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 3186: <p>
1.44 philen 3187:
1.247 jufi 3188: <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 3189: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 3190: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 3191:
3192: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 3193: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 3194:
1.247 jufi 3195: <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 3196: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 3197: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 3198:
3199: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.247 jufi 3200: <a href="crypto.html#ssh">OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 3201:
1.247 jufi 3202: <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 3203: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 3204: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 3205:
3206: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
3207: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
3208: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
3209: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 3210: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 3211:
1.247 jufi 3212: <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 3213: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 3214: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 3215:
1.36 louis 3216: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 3217: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 3218:
1.247 jufi 3219: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3220: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
3221: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 3222: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3223:
3224: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 3225: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.247 jufi 3226: </ul>
1.38 louis 3227:
1.69 deraadt 3228: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3229: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3230:
1.247 jufi 3231: <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 3232: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 3233: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 3234:
3235: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
3236: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 3237: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 3238:
1.113 naddy 3239: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 3240: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.247 jufi 3241: America<font color="#009000">, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 3242: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 3243:
3244: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
3245: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 3246: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
3247: terminal:
1.113 naddy 3248: <blockquote>
3249: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
3250: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
3251: <br>
3252: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
3253: </code>
3254: </blockquote>
3255: <p>
3256:
1.247 jufi 3257: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.340 jose 3258: <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 3259: <p>
3260:
3261: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3262: <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 3263: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 3264:
3265: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
3266: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 3267: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.247 jufi 3268: with <a href="security.html#default">ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 3269:
1.247 jufi 3270: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.301 jose 3271: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">[Japanese] BSD Magazine</a>,
3272: Sept. 28, 1999
3273: </strong></font><br>
3274:
3275: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
3276: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
3277: translating and reprinting articles from
3278: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
3279: <p>
3280:
3281: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.38 louis 3282: <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 3283: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 3284:
3285: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
3286: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
3287: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
3288: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
3289: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 3290: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 3291: <p>
1.19 louis 3292:
1.113 naddy 3293: <li><strong>
1.247 jufi 3294: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color="#009000">, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 3295: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 3296:
3297: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
3298: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
3299: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 3300: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
3301: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 3302: <p>
1.16 louis 3303:
1.247 jufi 3304: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3305: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 3306: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 3307: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 3308:
1.57 louis 3309: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
3310: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
3311: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 3312: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 3313:
1.247 jufi 3314: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3315: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 3316: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 3317: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3318:
1.113 naddy 3319: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 3320:
1.247 jufi 3321: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.215 horacio 3322: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
3323: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3324: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 3325:
1.23 louis 3326: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
3327: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
3328: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
3329: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
3330: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.247 jufi 3331: <a href="events.html#anoncvs_paper">paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 3332:
1.247 jufi 3333: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.47 louis 3334: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
3335: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 3336: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 3337:
1.199 pvalchev 3338: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 3339: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
3340: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
3341: installation.
1.113 naddy 3342: <p>
1.47 louis 3343:
1.247 jufi 3344: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3345: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 3346: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 3347: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3348:
1.301 jose 3349: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a
3350: href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>, an India-based alternative OS news
3351: and portal site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3352: </ul>
1.57 louis 3353:
1.69 deraadt 3354: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3355: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3356:
1.247 jufi 3357: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.17 deraadt 3358: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 3359: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 3360: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 3361:
3362: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
3363: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 3364: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3365: <p>
1.12 louis 3366:
1.247 jufi 3367: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.8 deraadt 3368: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 3369: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 3370: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 3371:
3372: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
3373: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 3374: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
3375: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
3376: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
3377: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
3378: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 3379: <p>
1.247 jufi 3380: </ul>
1.8 deraadt 3381:
1.69 deraadt 3382: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3383: <ul>
1.3 deraadt 3384:
1.247 jufi 3385: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.6 deraadt 3386: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 3387: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 3388:
3389: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
3390: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
3391: available."
1.113 naddy 3392: <p>
1.301 jose 3393:
3394: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3395: [Russian] Byte Magazine, Russia,
3396: <u>July/August 1999 issue</u>.
3397: </strong></font><br>
3398:
3399: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
3400: <p>
1.247 jufi 3401: </ul>
1.6 deraadt 3402:
1.69 deraadt 3403: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3404: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3405:
1.247 jufi 3406: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.33 louis 3407: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 3408: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 3409:
3410: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
3411: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
3412: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
3413: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
3414: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 3415: <p>
1.33 louis 3416:
1.247 jufi 3417: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3418: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 3419: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 3420: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3421:
1.113 naddy 3422: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
3423: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 3424: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
3425: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
3426: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 3427: <p>
1.247 jufi 3428: </ul>
1.57 louis 3429:
1.69 deraadt 3430: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3431: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3432:
1.247 jufi 3433: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3434: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 3435: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 3436: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3437:
3438: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
3439: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 3440: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3441:
1.247 jufi 3442: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.39 louis 3443: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
3444: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
3445: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 3446: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 3447:
3448: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 3449: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 3450:
1.247 jufi 3451: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.113 naddy 3452: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3453:
1.113 naddy 3454: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 3455:
1.247 jufi 3456: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.68 louis 3457: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
3458: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 3459: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 3460:
3461: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 3462: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.247 jufi 3463: </ul>
1.23 louis 3464:
1.69 deraadt 3465: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3466: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3467:
1.247 jufi 3468: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3469: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 3470: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3471:
3472: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
3473: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 3474: <p>
1.2 deraadt 3475:
1.247 jufi 3476: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3477: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.340 jose 3478: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, InfoWorld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 3479: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3480:
3481: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
3482: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 3483: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 3484: site.<p>
1.247 jufi 3485: </ul>
1.57 louis 3486:
1.69 deraadt 3487: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3488: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3489:
1.247 jufi 3490: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.15 louis 3491: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
3492: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 3493: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 3494:
3495: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
3496: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
3497: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
3498: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 3499: <p>
1.15 louis 3500:
1.247 jufi 3501: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3502: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
3503: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 3504: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3505:
3506: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
3507: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
3508: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
3509: columns."
1.113 naddy 3510: <p>
1.247 jufi 3511: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3512:
1.69 deraadt 3513: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1.247 jufi 3514: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3515:
1.247 jufi 3516: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3517: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 3518: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 3519: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 3520:
3521: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 3522: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 3523:
1.113 naddy 3524: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 3525: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 3526: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 3527:
3528: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
3529: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 3530: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.247 jufi 3531: </ul>
1.57 louis 3532:
1.69 deraadt 3533: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3534: <ul>
1.301 jose 3535: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3536: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
3537: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3538: Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
3539:
3540: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPsec interop</a> event
3541: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
3542: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
3543: <p>
3544:
3545: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
3546: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
3547: [Swedish] Datateknik</a>,
3548: Nov 13, 1998 and
3549: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
3550: Datateknik</a>,
3551: Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
3552:
3553: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
3554: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
3555: explains the licensing issues and points to our
3556: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
3557: <p>
1.69 deraadt 3558:
1.113 naddy 3559: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 3560: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.222 miod 3561: OpenBSD and IPsec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 3562: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 3563:
1.222 miod 3564: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPsec Development.
1.2 deraadt 3565: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
3566: Implementation, including a brief interview with
3567: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 3568: <p>
1.247 jufi 3569: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3570:
1.69 deraadt 3571: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3572: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3573:
1.247 jufi 3574: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3575: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 3576: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3577:
1.69 deraadt 3578: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
3579: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 3580: <p>
1.247 jufi 3581: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3582:
1.69 deraadt 3583: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3584: <ul>
1.1 deraadt 3585:
1.247 jufi 3586: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.1 deraadt 3587: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
3588: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 3589: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 3590:
3591: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
3592: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 3593: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3594:
1.247 jufi 3595: <li><font color="#009000"><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.113 naddy 3596: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 3597: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
3598: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 3599: <p>
1.247 jufi 3600: </ul>
1.1 deraadt 3601:
1.69 deraadt 3602: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3603: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3604:
1.247 jufi 3605: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3606: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 3607: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
3608: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 3609: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 3610: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 3611:
3612: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
3613: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
3614: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.308 jose 3615: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 3616: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 3617: <p>
1.247 jufi 3618: </ul>
1.69 deraadt 3619:
3620: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
1.247 jufi 3621: <ul>
1.69 deraadt 3622:
1.247 jufi 3623: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.69 deraadt 3624: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 3625: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 3626:
1.69 deraadt 3627: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
3628: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 3629: <p>
1.112 naddy 3630:
1.247 jufi 3631: </ul>
1.113 naddy 3632: <p>
1.1 deraadt 3633:
1.292 camield 3634: <hr>
1.216 horacio 3635: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.247 jufi 3636: <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
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1.1 deraadt 3638:
3639: </body>
3640: </html>
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